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Dan Danielsen Northeastern University School of Law 416 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 [email protected] Academic Experience Professor, Northeastern University School of Law June 2011-Present Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, June 2014- Present; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, July 2014-June 2017; Faculty Director, LLM and International Programs, July 2011-June 2015; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, June 2005-July 2014; Associate Professor of Law, May 2004-May 2011; Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, May 2002-May 2004; Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, regularly from 1993-2002. Visiting Senior Lecturer in Law and Policy, A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University, Providence, RI July 2008-June 2009 Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 1994 and 1995 Education Harvard Law School, J. D. cum laude, 1989 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, 1984 Other Professional Experience Council Member, Social Labor Convergence Program, Amsterdam, Netherlands February 2020 – Present The Social Labor Convergence Program is an multi-stakeholder organiZation of global brands, manufacturers, retailer, audit firms, standards organiZations, labor organiZations, and governmental organiZations seeking to develop a common protocol for compliance audits and a neutral and reliable platform for housing and making accessible audit data to assist diverse actors in the global garment sector to engage with the proliferation of both public, private and vendor-specific standards and compliance protocols in the sector. The hope is that once a comprehensive reliable set of tools and data resources are developed for the garment sector, the Program will expand to address similar issues in other global sectors. I will serve as one of three non-stakeholder experts on the Council, the governance body for the Program. Advisor, New Conversations Project: Sustainable Labor Practices in Global Supply Chains, Cornell University, International Labor Relations School May 2017 – Present The New Conversations Project is a multi-stakeholder initiative comprised of academics, large global brands, international organiZations, labor unions and federations and non- governmental organiZations aimed at creating better and more sustainable working conditions in global supply chains, particularly in the garment sector. Advisor, Service Employees International Union, Washington, D.C. November 2005 –December 2007 I provided strategic advice to the Service Workers Union regarding international law, corporate law, governance and transnational organiZing strategies. My work involved advising the SEIU on corporate issues in Spain and BraZil and assisting with the organiZation of a multinational conference hosted by the SEIU and Columbia Law School bringing together trade unionists, academics and lawyers from around the world to discuss strategies for organiZing workers and enforcing workers rights and protections with respect to businesses operating in multiple countries. I also assisted in the organiZation of conference on Corporate Governance and Labor in Europe involving union leaders, heads of international labor federations, academics and business leaders to explore ways to make use of corporate governance regulation in the context of broader worker protection efforts in Europe. Consultant, Library of Congress of Chile, Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile January 2006 I was part of a delegation of eight scholars from around the world invited to assist the staff of the Chilean Library of Congress and various members of the Chilean legislature in analytic techniques of comparative law. The team of scholars offered a series of training sessions and then a formal conference on techniques of comparative law that focused on highlighting legislative choices rather than particular legal traditions or national “solutions” and identifying the effects of those choices on different political and social constituencies in Chile. Advisor, Foreign Minister of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand September 2004 – January 2005 I was one of four members of the core planning group asked by Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai, then Foreign Minister of Thailand and a leading candidate to be Secretary General of the United Nations, to convene a working group of international experts from law, 2 08/02/20 economics, political science, sociology and the private sector to help develop a vision for more accountable and humane global governance and to explore innovative opportunities for the United Nations in the context of a broader global governance regime. Of Counsel, Feinberg & Associates, Newton, MA September 2002 – December 2006 This firm specialiZes in the representation of start-ups and young companies. I consulted on corporate law and intellectual property management and protection. Founder, Bull’s Eye Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA/Cambridge, MA August 2001 – June 2002 Bull’s Eye Entertainment was a media consulting, marketing and production company created to facilitate relationships between entertainment content producers and national advertisers in the fields of television, motion pictures, music and theater. I served as general partner and ran the advertising relations side of the business. Executive Vice President—General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Executive Vice President—Content and Product Development Europe Online Networks S.A., Luxembourg November 1999 – March 2001 Europe Online Networks S.A. was a Luxembourg-based pan-European provider of enhanced broadband Internet and multimedia entertainment services to consumers’ homes via satellite. As General Counsel I was responsible for all legal and corporate aspects of the company’s business in 27 countries including negotiating more than €150 million in financing for the company. I also served as Executive Vice President— Content and Product Development and was in charge of deals with telecommunications and entertainment companies and other content providers, as well as product design and development from a creative perspective. In this capacity I supervised a staff of about 100 people. Partner, Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, Boston, MA January 1998 – October 1999 (Partner) September 1991 – December 1997 (Associate) Foley, Hoag is large full-service law firm headquartered in Boston with offices in New York, Paris and Washington, D.C. My practice focused on the representation of technology, media and telecommunications companies in international business ventures. I specialiZed in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and distribution arrangements and intellectual property management and protection. Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Cincinnati, OH Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones August 1990 – September 1991 3 08/02/20 Stagiaire, Commission of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium August 1989 – July 1990 I worked as a legal counsel in the Cabinet of President Jacques Delors advising on comparative federalism issues, in the Directorate General Competition on airline deregulation and in the Directorate General Information Society on issues relating to the legal protection of software. Publications “’To See the World in a Grain of Sand’: Law and Capitalism Revealed through the Corporation,” Special Symposium on Grietje Baars, The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in Global Political Economy, __ London Rev. Int’t L. ___ (2020) (forthcoming). Dan Danielsen & Jennifer Bair, “The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Window on Global Political Economy,” Introduction to Special Symposium on Law and Global Value Chains, Law and Political Economy Blog, December 16, 2019, available at https://lpeblog.org/2019/12/16/the-role-of-law-in-global-value-chains-a-window-into- law-and-global-political-economy/. “Situating Human Rights Approaches to Corporate Accountability in the Political Economy of Supply Chain Capitalism,” in Power to the People? Private Regulatory Initiatives, Human Rights and Supply Chain Capitalism (D. Brinks, J. Dehm and K. Engle, eds.) (forthcoming, Penn Press, 2020). “Trade, Distribution and Development under Supply Chain Capitalism,” in Globalization Reimagined: Towards a Progressive Agenda for World Trade and Investment Law (A. Santos, C. Thomas and D. Trubek, eds.) (Anthem Press, 2019). “The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: a Research Manifesto,” a joint publication of the IGLP Law and Global Production Working Group, 4 London Rev. Int’l L. 57 (2016). “International Law and Economics: Letting go of ‘the Normal’ in Pursuit of an Ever- Elusive ‘Real’,” in The Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory (Anne Orford and Florian Hoffman, eds.), Oxford University Press (2016). “Beyond Corporate Governance: Why a new Approach to the Study of Corporate Law is needed to Address Global Inequality and Economic Development,” in Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law, (Ugo Mattei and John Haskell, eds.), Edward Elgar (2015). 4 08/02/20 “Corporate Power and Instrumental States: Toward a Critical Reassessment of the Role of Firms, States and Regulation in Global Governance,” in International Law and Its Discontents: Confronting Crises, (Barbara Stark, ed.), Cambridge University Press (2015). David Kennedy & Dan Danielsen, “Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” (Open Society