{"id":114039,"date":"2016-06-07T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=114039"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:26:03","slug":"tradeoffs-conflicts-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/06\/tradeoffs-conflicts-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Law Conference Draws International Experts, Sparks New Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tradeoffs, Conflicts, Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experts in business law, management and a range of social science disciplines attended a two-day conference at UConn titled, “Public Regulation and Private Governance: Competitors or Collaborators?”<\/p>\n

Conference participants, from North America and Europe, presented 14 papers that tackled the complex topic of how public regulations and private governance can complement each other.<\/p>\n

The keynote dinner featured remarks by UConn Provost Mun Choi<\/strong> and a keynote address by Auret Van Heerden<\/strong>, former president and CEO of the Fair Labor Association, a non-profit dedicated to promoting adherence to international and national labor laws. Established in 1999, it evolved out of a task force created by President Bill Clinton<\/strong> following a series of child-labor and other sweatshop scandals involving major apparel and footwear brands.<\/p>\n

“The relationship between public regulation and private governance is often overlooked,” said Stephen Park<\/strong><\/a>, professor of business law.<\/p>\n

“Firms, various stakeholders, and policymakers can immensely benefit from a deeper understanding of the tradeoffs, conflicts, and opportunities arising from the growing use of private standards in government regulation to address human rights, environmental sustainability, and other global social issues.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The conference brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines,” said Robert Bird<\/strong><\/a>, professor of business law. “The result was a unique perspective on how legal and ethical issues can act in concert to solve a number of important societal problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event was organized by Bird and Park, as well as Vivek Soundararajan<\/strong>, a post-doctoral international fellow at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and a Universitas 21 fellow at the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The program, hosted by the School of Business on April 14-15, was sponsored by the Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics, the UConn Office of Global Affairs and the UConn Center for International Business Education and Research.<\/p>\n

“The conference was most collegial and engaging, bringing together disparate faculty from the U.S. and abroad around a common question sparked a variety of new and provocative ideas,” Bird said. “As conference organizers, we were more than successful in meeting our goals. We didn’t just host a conference, but created a cohort of scholars who will remain in future contact and continue to work to enhance multidisciplinary perspectives on this important topic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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