A/HRC/31/50
Annex I
List of speakers for panel discussions
Monday, 6 July 2015
Keynote speaker
• Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Panel I
(15:00)
Implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Renewed
Commitment by All States: A Renewed Commitment by All States
• Michael Addo, Chair, Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational
corporations and other business enterprises
Panel II
(cont. 15h00-18h00)
Principles for an International Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations
(TNCs) and other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights
• Chip Pitts (Lecturer in Law, Stanford University Law School)
• Bonita Meyersfeld (Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an
associate professor of law at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg)
• Professor Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights,
University of Nottingham
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Panel III
(09h00-13h00)
Coverage of the Instrument: TNCs and other Business Enterprises: concepts and legal
nature in International Law
• Stephanie Blankenburg (Head of Debt, Development and Finance, UNCTAD
• Michael Congiu (Shareholder, Littler Mendelson PLC)
• Chip Pitts (Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School)
• Carlos M. Correa (Special Advisor on Trade and Intellectual Property of the South
Centre)
Panel IV
(15h00-18h00)
Human rights to be covered under the Instrument with respect to activities of TNCs and
other business enterprises
• Hatem Kotrane (Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child)
• Bonita Meyersfeld (Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and associate
professor of law at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
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