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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LEADERSHIP COURSE Fordham Law School Room 430 B/C June 2–4, 2014 Program Schedule Day 1 – Corporate Social Moderator: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, the ways in which corporations can effectively Responsibility Today – Expectations, Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership work with these groups. Challenges and Prospects Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Program, 3:30–3:40 pm 8–9 am Leitner Center for International Law and Coffee Break and Networking Registration and Breakfast Justice, Fordham Law School Evidence shows that steps to advance corporate 3:40–5 pm 9–9:30 am citizenship improve financial performance. The Positive Impact of Sustainable Business Welcome Remarks Reducing carbon outputs, engaging with local Panelists: Christopher Aidun, Managing Speakers: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, communities, investing in education, providing Partner, Persistent Energy Partners LLC Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership safe and clean working environments, and im- Katie Hunt-Morr, Senior Manager, Values and Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, plementing robust corporate governance policies Impact, Etsy Corporate Social Responsibility Program, are just some of the measures that can lead to David Levine, Co-founder & CEO, American Leitner Center for International Law and sustainable business and increased profits. This Sustainable Business Council Justice, Fordham Law School session will examine these prospects while work- Sumeet Salwan, Senior Vice President Human Emily Smith Ewing, Executive Director, ing through some of the challenges companies Resources, Unilever North America Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership encounter along the way. Participants will hear Moderator: Professor Gay McDougall, Course; Adjunct Professor and PVH Corp. from industry leaders and will gain first hand Scholar-In-Residence, Leitner Center for Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, insight into business models that can be applied International Law and Justice, Fordham Law Leitner Center for International Law and to their own companies and practices. School Justice, Fordham Law School 12:30–2 pm While responsible business practice provides multiples gains for companies themselves as 9:30–10:30 am Lunch outlined earlier in the program, these positive Introduction to Corporate Social efforts provide enormous benefit to society at Responsibility 2–3:30 pm The Role of Stakeholders large. Hearing from a range of constituents Speaker: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, from across the business community, this Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership Panelists: Sarah Dolton-Zborowski, Adjunct session will provide a summary of some of the Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Professor, Corporate Sustainability, Fordham recent, notable CSR initiatives embarked upon Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Law School; Former Director, Human Rights, by multinational corporations, social enterpris- Leitner Center for International Law and PVH Corp. es and Benefit Corporations and evaluate the Justice, Fordham Law School Jane Hwang, Director, Corporate Programs benefit that these initiatives can make Charting the development of corporate social and Training, Social Accountability to society. responsibility from a purely philanthropic International focus to a meaningful consideration of the Rachel F. Robbins, Director, Altas Mara Co- social and environmental impact of operations, Nvest Limited, FINCA Microfinance Holding products and services, this session will review Company LLC; previous Vice President Day 2 – Corporate Social and analyze the concept and definition of and General Counsel, International Finance Responsibility in the US corporate social responsibility today and will Corporation 9–9:10 am outline the law and theory that supports the Moderator: Marguerite Pettit, Strategist, Welcome and Overview of Day 2 current framework. Purpose (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) From local communities and NGOs to cus- 9:10–11 am tomers and the supply chain to shareholders in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility 10:30–11 am home markets, stakeholders play an important Coffee Break and Networking and increasing role in the advancement of cor- Panelists: John R. Cashin, previous General porate social responsibility. With effective dia- Counsel, General Insurance Division, Zurich 11–12:30 pm logue, these parties can work together to ensure Insurance Group Responsible Business: Challenges and that the business sector has a positive impact on Heidi DuBois, Senior Counsel, Office of the Prospects for Companies all those affected by the corporate activity. In Corporate Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc. Andy Hinton, Vice President, Global Ethics Panelists: Eric Grossman, Chief Legal Officer, particular, institutional investors, representing the long-term interests of large sways of the and Compliance, Google Inc. Morgan Stanley Gerald Manwah, Managing Director/Global James Leitner, President, Falcon Management population, increasingly look to corporate environmental, social and governance policies, Head of Compliance Risk and Control, Melanie Steiner, Chief Risk Officer, PVH Barclays Corp. performance and disclosure to assess invest- ment value. In this session, experts from the Moderator: Professor Sean Griffith, T.J. Ursula Wynhoven, General Counsel, United Maloney Chair in Business Law; Director, Nations Global Compact investment, business and NGO communities will discuss why these issues are important to Fordham Corporate Law Center their different constituents and will evaluate Exploring the overlap between ethics and corporate social responsibility, Professor Sean disclosure try to address some of these issues. International human rights law primarily gov- Griffith will introduce the session with a As we approach the first major deadline for erns state action in the promotion and protec- short discussion on the legal value of ethical company reporting, this session will discuss the tion of the human rights of citizens. However, commitments. Responding to the issues raised history, intention, development and require- as the power and influence of multinational by Professor Griffith, panelists will share their ments of the the SEC’s conflict minerals report- corporations has grown—in some cases industry perspective and experience on the im- ing provisions, as well as evaluate some of the rivaling that of countries—there are calls for portance of ethical policies and commitments issues and challenges that arise as companies are companies to be held to the same international in the promotion of CSR and the challenges compelled to report on non-financial matters standards to protect human rights. Providing they face developing these commitments in such as environmental, social and an introduction to the theory and practice of practice. governance principles. international human rights law, this session will (CLE Credits: 2 Professional Practice) (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) highlight how this area of law forms part of the basis of corporate social responsibility norms. 11–11:30 am 3:30–4 pm (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) Coffee Break and Networking Coffee Break and Networking 10:30–11 am 11:30–1 pm 4–5 pm Coffee Break and Networking Corruption and Corporate Social CSR Transparency and Disclosure 2: Responsibility Other Regions 11–12 pm Panelists: Joel Kirsch, Vice President Speakers: Professor Joey Lee, Adjunct UN Guiding Principles on Business and and Associate General Counsel, Siemens Professor and Asia Law and Justice Fellow, Human Rights: Introduction Corporation Leitner Center for International Law and Speaker: Deborah Enix-Ross, Chair, ABA M. Scott Peeler, Managing Director, Stroz Justice, Fordham Law School Center for Human Rights; Litigation Practice Friedberg Emily Smith Ewing, Executive Director, Group Manager, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Mark Stehr, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership Endorsed by the United Nations in 2011 and Moderator: Course; Adjunct Professor and PVH Corp. supported by civil society and the private sector Professor Carole Basri, Executive Director of Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, alike, the Guiding Principles on Business and the Corporate Compliance Institute, Fordham Leitner Center for International Law and Human Rights (GPs) set a global standard for Law School; Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law Justice, Fordham Law School corporations to prevent and remedy adverse School; President, Corporate Lawyering Group Building on the issues raised in the previous impacts of human rights resulting from busi- LLC discussion, this session will examine recent ness activity. This session will first provide an Highlighting developments in anti-bribery laws developments in legislation in other regions in-depth analysis of the history, development, in the US and around the world, this session around the world that require greater trans- meaning, reach and impact of the new GPs and will outline the main provisions of the FCPA parency and reporting from businesses. This will examine what these mean for both compa- and other relevant legislation, and put these session will look specifically at the Reporting nies and law firms. issues into a global CSR context. In particular, Requirements on Responsible Investment in (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) panelists will discuss the challenges that compa- Burma, the California Transparency in Supply nies face when they expand

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