Equipping Professionals for the Next Challenges: The Design and Results of a Multidisciplinary Business and Human Rights Clinic (original) (raw)

Business and Human Rights Journal, 2017

Abstract

Since the 1990s, the subject of business and human rights has evolved from an academic critique of ‘corporate social responsibility’ as an approach to understanding business’s social impacts, to a movement and a field of study, marked by the launch of this journal in 2015. As the field grows, so too does the demand for professionals with a sophisticated understanding of the factors that lead corporations to ‘exploit workers and communities for profit’ and the steps that corporations, governments and civil society need to take to halt and reverse that trend, and to remedy abuses when they occur. The need to equip professionals with the skills to analyse and address complex business and human rights challenges is steadily gaining recognition at universities across the globe. This is evident from the proliferation of business and human rights courses in professional schools of business, law and public policy. As one measure, the membership of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum, an international collaboration of professors teaching the subject, has grown to over 275 professors teaching at 170 institutions in 33 countries on five continents. Preparing future business and human rights professionals entails exposing students to the issues, standards and practices of the field, and then teaching how to apply them. At the Teaching Forum’s workshops held annually since 2011, professors share and debate

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