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dbose.bsky.social
The Robbins Postdoctoral Scholar at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social. Working on Business and Human Rights, TWAIL and Private Law Theory. #BizHumanRights
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1/2 Are there humans in human rights due diligence? Read my latest draft paper on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... I argue there that HRDD laws entrench the marginalization of people whose human rights they ostensibly protect by focusing on stakeholder engagement clauses.

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1/2 🚨 Big news from Geneva: The ILO just voted to create a Convention on gig workers! This could mark the beginning of the end for “creative contracting” and misclassification—issues I highlighted in my Verfassungsblog piece.

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1/3 🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits. In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules? verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

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What do calls for decolonial futures mean when articulated through international law? Limited places at our workshop, 5-6 June. @uvalawschool.bsky.social Organised by @kanadbagchi.bsky.social, @dbose.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social & @tim-lindgren.bsky.social acil.uva.nl/content/even...

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1/4 Excited to share my latest draft chapter, called 'The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting', now available on SSRN! It challenges the notion that business decisions are isolated from human rights considerations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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1/2 My new blog is out on how the French corporate responsibility law, while emphasizing protection of Global South people, systematically excludes their voices. Do give it a read here: bhrj.blog/2024/12/18/t... #BizHumanRights #UNGPs #HRDD #DevoirDeVigilance #CSDDD

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🔔 Reminder before Christmas week: Abstracts are due by January 5! What do you think are the tensions behind the decolonial future(s) of international law? We'd love to hear from you!

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We're launching a massive (it will stretch over 10 days) interdisciplinary symposium on the French Duty of Vigilance Law on the BHR Journal blog today! Our (with Nadia Bernaz) introduction is already out at bhrj.blog/2024/12/09/t... #BizHumanRights #HRDD #UNGPs #CSDDD #DevoirDeVigilance

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Join us in Amsterdam on 16 December for the first Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture with the fabulous Tendayi Achiume🔥🔥 More info and registration link at: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

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1/4 Read our new blog series unveiling the dance between human rights and economic laws. 💃 rightsasusual.com/2024/12/02/s... It follows from the Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws symposium at Tilburg Law School, hosted with @nnhrr.bsky.social colleagues Dalia Palombo and Gustavo Becker.

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I put together this #BizHumanRights starter pack, but I know there's more of you out there! go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8 Let me know who I missed and hope to see some of you at the #UNForumBHR.

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For interested people, here is an (incomplete) IEL Collective starter pack. Please let me know if I should add you or someone else! go.bsky.app/ByVGYq6

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📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨ (Limited) travel funding available decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...

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I made a first attempt, there are DEFINITELY people missing, so I PROMISE this does not arbitrate who is inside and outside of LPE! You can reply to be added or DM me, also feel free to suggest other people, etc. go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK

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Where is the long-drawn struggle between human rights and economic laws taking us? Let us think! We’re excited to announce a call for abstracts our symposium “Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws” on June 19 at Tilburg Law School & online. Further info: www.tilburguniversity.edu/overview/sym...

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delighted to see this out and grateful to Wanshu Cong and @fjquintana.bsky.social for bringing us together to think about the past and future of international law through Allende’s lens. look out for the rest of the posts starting from today! cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/rememb...

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Beyond delighted to share my first ever published article ‘The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?’ available open access in the wonderful Business & Human Rights Journal

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1) My PhD gives a private law theory justification for supply chain responsibility for human rights 2) What if there were only human duties enumerated instead of human rights?

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