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Corporate Social Responsibility & The Law

Making the case for business action to “secure the shared space”

By Vivek Krishnamurthy

September 25, 2018

The relationship between companies and civil society can often be acrimonious, yet in the current geopolitical environment, they share more interests in common than one might think. This is the key insight that underpins new guidance authored by Bennett Freeman

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Corporate Social Responsibility & The Law

Five on Friday – Five Recent Developments that We’ve Been Watching Closely

By Sarah A. Altschuller

August 17, 2018

It’s Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring.
This week’s post includes: new guidance on compliance with North Korea-related sanctions laws; the release of the first annual

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Corporate Social Responsibility & The Law

#EthicalOS – A New Guide Aims to Mitigate the Downsides of Technological Advancements

By Sarah A. Altschuller

August 15, 2018

On August 7, the Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab and the Institute for the Future (“IFTF”) launched a new toolkit, The Ethical Operating System (Ethical OS), to help guide technologists in building preventing, mitigation, and correcting the “social

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Corporate Social Responsibility & The Law

Five on Friday – Five Recent Developments that We’ve Been Watching Closely

By Sarah A. Altschuller

July 27, 2018

It’s Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring.
This week’s post includes: developments with respect to the proposed Australian Modern Slavery Act; the dismissal of another climate

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Corporate Social Responsibility & The Law

California Passes New Data Privacy Law With National Implications

By Sarah A. Altschuller

July 18, 2018

This post, written by Christopher Hart, was originally posted on Foley Hoag’s Security, Privacy and the Law blog.
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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) was signed into law on June 28,

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