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Public Lecture: “Transnational Governance and the Role of Due Diligence and Transnational Governance and Supply Chains in the Wake of Rana Plaza,” December 9

Date & Time: 12:15 p.m., Dec. 9 (Wednesday)

Venue: C303, PKU Shenzhen

Language: English

Lecturers: LARRY CATÁ BACKER and KARIN BUHMANN

LARRY CATÁ BACKER is the W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law & International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). His research focuses on governance related issues of globalization and the constitutional theories of public and private governance, with a focus on institutional frameworks where public and private law systems converge.

DR. KARIN BUHMANN, Dr.Scient.Adm, Ph.D. (Law), is Associate Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Public-Private Regulation at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her research and teaching focus on public regulation and the juridification of CSR, with a strong focus on the interaction between public and private hard, soft, and smart-mix regulation, sources of norms and their implementation.

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