The Centre for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen; INTRAlaw, Department of Law, Aarhus University; the Corporate Social Responsibility Legal Research Network (CSR LRN); and the SMART project, University of Oslo present To Pursue or Not to Pursue CSR Goals – Legal Risks and Liabilities Oct. 6-7, 2016. The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, will host. Paper proposals are due by Aug. 1, 2016.
The conference concerns the overall question of rights and duties for the corporations and other legal entities to pursue CSR goals. The conference explores the tension between, on the one hand, soft law and private law duties to pursue CSR goals and, on the other hand, other private law and public international law mechanisms that conversely seem to impose duties to refrain from the pursuance of CSR goals at the expense of other goals (such as profit). The conference seeks to explore the question whether the CSR/sustainability movement may put companies or other actors in a “catch 22 “ situation by exposing them to a risk of liability or other sanctions both for the pursuance and for the non-pursuance of CSR goals.
