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A Critical View of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: The MSIntegrity Report: "Not Fit for Purpose: The Grand Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Good Governance"

Posted on September 17, 2020
  In July 2020, MSIntegrity Released its Report: Not Fit for Purpose: The Grand Experiment of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in Corporate Accountability, Human Rights and Good Governance. It described the thrust of the Report on its website:Not Fit-For-Purpose reflects on a decade of research and analysis into international standard-setting MSIs...

?????????????????????????????The General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the United Front Work of Private Economy in the New Era"

Posted on September 16, 2020
The Chinese United Front is a complicated apparatus that aligns several entities or organizations, some of them relatively autonomous, under the leadership of the Communist Party.  It has undergone a series of substantial transformations from the time of the early history of the Chinese Communist Party during its days as a small  collective, through the years of revolutionary activity, and then after the establishment of the People's Republic when the CPC was faced with the challenge of transforming itself from a revolutionary party to a party in power...

Short Reflections on the UN Working Group's July 2020 Report to the General Assembly: "Business, human rights and conflict-affected regions: towards heightened action"

Posted on September 15, 2020
Pix Credit HEREOne of the more challenging issues that confronted the process of drafting (and then applying) the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, centered on the duty of states to protect--and more relevantly the responsibilities of companies to respect--human rights in conflict zones (as well as in weak governance zones) (discussed in Corporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones)...

Defending Traditional Markets Driven Capital Centering Economic-Political Models: Hester M. Peirce: "Markets, Morality, and Mobsters: Remarks at the 18th Annual Corporate Governance Conference"

Posted on September 14, 2020
Has Business Left Milton Friedman Behind?Hester M. PeirceIn a remarkable address delivered 27 August 2020 at the University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Excellence  in Corporate Governance, Hester Peirce, appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the U...

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Brief Reflections on "Evaluation of the Dutch RBC Agreements 2014-2020"

Posted on September 14, 2020
In the context of its project ?Putting Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) Measures in Perspective? the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned an evaluation of the Dutch Responsible Business Conduct (Corporate social responsibility (CSR)) to review its current RBC/CSR policy...

Ruminations 93: Reflections on the Anniversary of the Attacks of 11 September 2001

Posted on September 11, 2020
 (Pix Credit: Never forget: A timeline of events on September 11, 2001)There is not much that can be said on the commemoration of the day of the attacks of 11 September 2001 that has not already been said, and said better, by others. One remembers the dead and injured, and those who died or suffered injury thereafter...

Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Participating in the V Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean

Posted on September 10, 2020
Those who engage in the necessary work of managing the narrative of business and human rights, along with their friends and influence leader, the business and human rights vanguard, have again organized a (Fifth) Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean  with the theme this year (these events appear always to have a theme, that is a centering element that is meant to be advanced for each annual cycle of events) of Realising responsible business conduct in difficult times: Turning challenges into opportunities (Virtual week)...

The Return of Mao Zedong: On the Resumption of the Publication of the Pan-Left Journal ????"Zhongliu"

Posted on September 09, 2020
?Long live Chairman Mao, the red sun in the hearts of the universal revolution?s people!?The ``cultural revolution'' should also be viewed scientifically and in historical perspective. In initiating it Comrade Mao Zedong was actuated mainly by the desire to oppose and prevent revisionism...

Reflections on ??????????????????????????75????????? [Xi Jinping; Speech at a symposium commemorating the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People?s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War]

Posted on September 07, 2020
Learn from the past, learn history from the general secretary?The spirit of the war of resistance is timelessThings rarely tend to be as they appear--especially when people (important people) speak or write.  Voltaire famously wrote about Persians when he might have been thinking Parisians; now Xi Jinping  takes the moment to commemorate the great victory over Japanese militarism in the middle of the last century to speak about what is rapidly being marketed as its succeeding chapter--the resistance struggle against the United States...

Now Available: Video Recording of 3rd Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference

Posted on September 06, 2020
The Seattle University School of Law: 3rd Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference was held Friday August 21, 2020 as a virtual event from 9.00 am through 4.00 pm (Pacific Time). The Conference was sponsored by the law firm of Perkins Coie, the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental & Innovation Law, and Seattle University School of Law?s Summer Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship...

John Sherman: An Open Letter to Robert A. Brown, President of Boston University on the Human Rights Implications of the University Decision to Open

Posted on September 05, 2020
John F. Sherman III, the General Counsel and Senior Advisor to Shift, "a leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights [NY and Geneva: UN 2011]" has been a leading and quite influential voice for the elaboration of the business and human rights principles of the UNGP by gatekeepers (lawyers) and other institutions...

Reflections on ??????????????????????? [Xi Jinping: Ideological and political courses are the key courses to implement the fundamental task of Building a Moral Based Character (lì dé shù rén)]

Posted on September 04, 2020
???????????????????????  For some time I have been suggesting that education, and education policy, sits at the center of the realization of China's New Era transformation of Marxist-Leninist Theory in the emerging stage of Chinese historical development (e...

New CPE Working Paper: James Korman, "Drug Cartels, Oil Rents, and Homicide: The Case of Mexico"

Posted on September 03, 2020
I am delighted to announce the posting of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics latest Working Paper: James Korman, "Drug Cartels, Oil Rents, and Homicide ? The Case of Mexico" CPE Working Paper 9/1 (1 September 2020). In this paper James Korman seeks to provide a more nuanced explanation for the phenomenon of murder as a critical tool in the organization and functioning of the cartels, which in Mexico at times  and places assumes something like an extra governmental center of control and regulation...

The "Five Coordinations" (????) As Party Line and State Policy in China

Posted on March 30, 2011
It is common in the West to dismiss the development of ideological positions of the Chinese Communist Party.  It has been easy to treat the Party Line as both transitory and mere ideology.  The West, more comfortable with the seeming greater solidity of the governmental apparatus, tends to look for policy elsewhere...

Onthe Autonomous Regulatory Authority of Corporations in Global Private Markets: Governance Between Corporation and State

Posted on March 28, 2011
On February 26, 2011, the Washington Post provided another illustration of the growing autonomy and regulatory power of corporations within systems of economic globalization. Lyndsey Layton, Wal-Mart bypasses federal regulators to ban controversial flame retardant, Washington Post, Feb...

Sherry Roush on Tommaso Campanella's Philosophical Poems

Posted on March 26, 2011
My colleague, Sherry Roush, Associate Professor of Italian at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and culture. She is the author of Hermes? Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and co-editor of The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy (Arizona State University Press, 2005)...

China?s Multinational Enterprises in Latin America and Norway?s Sovereign Wealth Fund?Public Power and Private Markets in the Global South

Posted on March 21, 2011
One of the most interesting consequences of economic globalization is the way in which it tends to collision of distinct governance and economic projects that might not appear to have much to do with each other. For this essay I highlight one of those collisions, between China?s Go Global policies and its accelerated investment in developing countries, especially in extractive industries, and the responsible investment framework of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund with its emphasis on the use of private market investment to influence the behavior of private entities (even state controlled enterprises)...

Inter-Systemic Regulatory Coherence: GRI and the Operationalization of the OECD's Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Framing Governance for Business and Human Rights

Posted on March 18, 2011
I have been writing recently about the move to formalize the U.N.'s three pillar Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework for business and Human Rights under the direction of John Ruggie as Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Business and Human Rights...

Legal Information Institute of India

Posted on March 17, 2011
Graham Greenleaf AM, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales (UNSW), faculty of law, recently described the launch of an important new free access web site containing materials of law from India.  The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India - http://www...

Norway's SWF Adds Another Tobacco Producer to its Excluded Universe and the Rehabilitation of a Former Cluster Bomb Component Maker

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund has excluded companies form its investment universe  if they engage in the production of certain products, with the connection to production sufficient to trigger exclusion defined distinctly with respect to each product...

Final Draft of U.N.Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights Submitted

Posted on March 09, 2011
This press release was recently posted.  More as information becomes available:  Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Business and Human RightsSRSG Submits Final Draft of Guiding Principles on Business & Human RightsNew York/Geneva (March 7)?Today, John Ruggie, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for business and human rights, submitted the final draft of the Guiding Principles on implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework for business and human rights...

Online Schools--Web Resources for Students Covering Public Policy Issues

Posted on March 09, 2011
The monopoly position of law faculties as the most privileged, and sometimes only, source of authoritative information about issues of law and policy is beginning to give way to a more open textured environment.   The mas democratic movements of the political sphere, most recently in evidence in the Muslim Mediterranean, has penetrated a variety of areas of human organization...

An Introduction to and Analysis of the Draft Guiding Principles for the United Nations 'Protect, Respect, and Remedy' Framework

Posted on March 01, 2011
I was recently invited to give a presentation discussing the scope, content and philosophy of the United Nations 'Protect, Respect, and Remedy' Framework at the invitation of the UNA-USA organization of Centre County and the Penn State School of International Affairs...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXVIIII

Posted on February 28, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXVII

Posted on February 27, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

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Posted on February 26, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXV

Posted on February 25, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXIV

Posted on February 24, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXIII

Posted on February 23, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

Developing a Coherent Transnational Jurisprudence of Ethical Investing: The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Ethics Council Model Part XXII

Posted on February 22, 2011
This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme.  The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a series of aphoristic (?????????) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it...

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