"We often hear that this issue is a burden but people are not a liability; human beings are an asset," he said.
The symposium will feature individual panels of distinguished scholars and advocates discussing the modern corporation in law, the history of corporate liability, including criminal liability for human rights abuses, and avenues for holding corporations accountable following the much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Dutch Royal Petroleum.
The Kiobel case presents many questions about the reach of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a law that has allowed U.S. federal courts to assess civil liabilities for human rights abuses against aliens, including abroad.
AI is set to challenge humanity with some of the most fundamental questions about privacy, liability and human rights.
During the past decade, mutations affecting liability to human disease have been discovered at a phenomenal rate, and that rate is increasing.
"This case is a pivotal test for the development of parent company liability for human rights and environmental harm," said Croser.
Sheen, J.H., Zoncu, R., Kim, D. & Sabatini, D.M. Defective regulation of autophagy upon leucine deprivation reveals a targetable liability of human melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo.
It explores timely - and often controversial - public issues with which corporations must grapple including the corporate purpose, civil and criminal liability, taxation, human rights, the environment and corruption.
He argued that the Court may in fact limit the liability of human rights abusers because it gives them a choice of whether (or not) to turn themselves over to the ICC for trial.
Sheen, J.H., Zoncu, R., Kim, D., and Sabatini, D.M. (2011) Defective regulation of autophagy upon leucine deprivation reveals a targetable liability of human melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo.
