9:00 - 9:15 am:   Welcome and Opening Remarks from David L. Sloss, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Global Law and Policy, Santa Clara Law

 

9:15 - 10:45 am:   Panel 1: Protect, Respect, and Remedy: Regulation of Transnational Corporations

Presenter:  Larry Cata Backer, Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law
Commentator:  Ursula Wynhoven, United Nations Global Compact
Commentator:  Faith Stevelman, New York Law School
Moderator:  Zenichi Shishido, Professor of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

 

11:00 - 12:30 pm:   Panel 2: Global Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

Presenter:  Adefolake Adeyeye, National University of Singapore
Commentator:  Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law
Commentator:  Anita Ramasastry, D. Wayne and Anne Gittinger Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Moderator:  David Yosifon, Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law

 

12:45 - 2:15 pm:   Lunch and Lunch Speaker: Anupam Chander (U.C. Davis School of Law): Social Responsibility of Information Technology Companies

 

2:30 - 4:00 pm:   Panel 3: Corporations as Plaintiffs Under Bilateral Investment Treaties

Presenter:  Chip Brower, University of Mississippi School of Law
Commentator:  Andrea Bjorklund , U.C. Davis School of Law
Commentator:  Tai Heng Cheng, Vanderbilt Law School
Moderator:  David Sloss, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Global Law and Policy, Santa Clara Law

 

4:15 - 5:15 pm:   Keynote Address: Are Corporations Subjects of International Law? (Jose Alvarez, New York University School of Law)

 

5:30 - 6:30 pm:   Reception on Williman patio

 

6:30 - 8:00 pm:   Dinner at Adobe Lodge (By invitation only)

9:00 - 10:30 am:   Panel 4: Corporate Defendants and the Alien Tort Claims Act

Presenter:  Doug Branson, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Commentator:  Donald Kochan, Chapman University School  of Law
Commentator:  Katherine Gallagher, Center for Constitutional Rights
Moderator:  Natalie L. Bridgeman, Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Counsel

 

10:45 - 12:00 pm:   Roundtable Discussion

 

12:00 - 12:15 pm:   Closing Remarks