On February 26th, 2021, join UCLA Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights, the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and the Corporate Accountability Lab as they host a day-long symposium to address issues of corporate accountability.

At 4:30 p.m., Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Progam Manager Dominic Renfrey will join the panel, The Corporation as Global Superpower: Corporate Capture, Corporate Influence, and International Human Rights Law to discuss how multinational corporations have continued to assert increasing influence on states and their decision making; how the influence of corporations on state power affects the creation and enforcement of human rights law; and how countries hold corporations accountable when the corporations are larger than the countries by an order of magnitude.
 

Featured panelists include:

Anita Ramasastry, University of Washington School of Law, United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong

Dominic Renfrey, Center for Constitutional Rights
 

For more information, visit the UCLA JILFA Symposium: "Corporate Capture, Corporate Influence, and International Human Rights Law" event page.