WHO WE ARE
The Business & Human Rights Summer School provides a frame of understanding of the main challenges concerning the intersection between business activities and human rights. It focuses on international legal framework and on the recent and emerging human rights-related legislation regulating corporate activities worldwide, with a specific attention to the role and obligations of States and corporations and to access to remedies for victims of corporate-related human rights abuses.
The programme is designed to provide students, academics, NGOs, lawyers, corporations, CSR experts, consultancies, institutions, public-and private-sector practitioners with comprehensive knowledge of the legal mechanisms and tools applicable in the field of business and human rights while keeping up with current relevant developments at national, regional and international level.
Directors
TUTORS
Fabiana Brigante
Secretariat and tutors’ coordinator
3rd edition, 2020
4th edition, 2021
5th edition, 2022
6th edition, 2023
Angela Vonella
6th edition, 2023
Bianca Colette Mizzi
2nd edition, 2019
Francesca Lombardo
2nd edition, 2019
Diana Garzon
4th edition, 2021
FACULTY
The Business & Human Rights Summer School brings together a core teaching staff of leading specialists from around the world. Lecturers and trainers are chosen among academics, international organizations officers, NGOs activists, and practitioners thus offering a wealth of both academic and field expertise.
Please, find below a list of some of the lecturers who have delivered their lectures in the past editions of the Summer School
Michael Addo, Notre Dame University
Daniel Augenstein, University of Tilburg
Tulika Bansal, The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Greta Barbone, International Criminal Court
Nadia Bernaz, Wageningen University and Research
Flaviano Bianchini, Source International
Debadatta Bose, University of Amsterdam
Ledi Bianku, Strasbourg University, former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Claire Bright, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Vania Brino, University Ca’ Foscari
Anna Bulzomi, PwC – Sustainability & Responsible Governance
Achille Caliò Marincola, Legance
Francesca Cancellaro, Studio Legale Gamberini
Cristiana Carletti, University of “Roma Tre”
Carmen Márquez Carrasco, University of Seville
Giuseppe Cataldi, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Jernej Letnar Černič, Faculty of Government and European Studies, New University, Ljubljana/Kranj
Giacomo Maria Cremonesi, Caiazza Law Firm, Milan
Andrea de Guttry, Director of the Dirpolis Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Pasquale De Sena, Catholic University of Milan
Elisa Dencheva (DELL Technologies
Surya Deva, Macquarie University
Michele Di Benedetto, UNDP Yemen
Rosa Federica Grassi, AssoIttica Italia
Jonas Grimheden, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Valentina Grado, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Ingrid Gubbay, Hausfeld – International Law Firm
Heidi Hautala, EP Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct
Tara Van Ho, University of Essex
Manuel Kiewisch, Global Lead Cocoa Life Monitoring & Evaluation, Learning, and Verification at Mondelēz
Daniel Leader, Leigh Day & Co.
Sheldon Leader, University of Essex
Virginie Mahin, Senior Manager Global Social Sustainability & Human Rights at Mondelēz
Francesca Mannocchi, journalist and writer, La Stampa
Robert McCorquodale, University of Nottingham
Dominique Muller, Labour Behind the Label (UK)
Maddalena Neglia, Fédération international des droits de l’homme (FIDH)
Sylvia Obregon, ECCJ
Swantje Pabst, Daimler AG
Fabrizio Petri, President of the Italian Inter-ministerial Committee of Human Rights
Irene Pietropaoli, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Católica, Lisbon School of Law and Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Ron Popper, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights
Corrado Quinto, UNDP Tunisia
Anita Ramasastry, Washington University Law School and UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Roberto Randazzo, Legance
Sabrina Rau, University of Essex
Humberto Cantù Rivera, Monterrey University
Martina Rogato, Human Rights International Corner (HRIC)
Lucas Roorda, Utrecht University
Deborah Russo, University of Florence
Cedric Ryngaert, University of Utrecht
Miriam Saage-Maaß, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
Claudia Saller, European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)
Luca Saltalamacchia, ProRights
Channa Samkalden, Prakken d’Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers
Livio Sarandrea,Global Lead for Business and Human Rights, UNDP
Annalisa Savaresi, University of Eastern Finland;
Michele Scardi, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Andrea Shemberg, The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights GBIHR
Lise Smith, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
Alessandra Stabilini, University of Milan
Mariana Toussaint, FAO
Seline Trevisanut, University of Utrecht
Anna Triponel, Triponel Consulting
Olena Uvarova, Wageningen University and Research
Anil Yilmaz, University of Essex (UK)
Angela Zarro, High Quality Food SpA