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DESCRIPTION:On Zoom\n\nAbstract\n\nLawyers defending extractive corporation
 s in transnational human rights and environmental cases tend to reflect th
 e dominant ‘resolute advocacy’ model of litigation\, which directs lawyers
  to aggressively pursue clients’ interests though all available means. Giv
 en the inequality of arms between plaintiffs and defendant corporations\, 
 and the changing normative context generated by the United Nations Guiding
  Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Sustainable Development G
 oals\, we ask whether a different vision of advocacy more appropriate in t
 his type of litigation.  We put forward a model of ‘moderated resolute adv
 ocacy’ and propose some normative and legislative reforms. \n\nBio\n\nAmy 
 Salyzyn is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law\, Common Law Secti
 on at the University of Ottawa and a Faculty member of the Centre for Law\
 , Technology and Society. She received her J.S.D from Yale Law School for 
 her dissertation exploring the judicial regulation of lawyers in common la
 w jurisdictions. She also received her LL.M. from Yale Law School and her 
 J.D. from the University of Toronto. She has written extensively in the ar
 ea of legal ethics\, lawyer regulation\, the use of technology in the deli
 very of legal services and access to justice.  \n\nPenelope Simons is a Fu
 ll Professor and the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights at the Facu
 lty of Law (Common Law Section)\, University of Ottawa. A global leader in
  business and human rights\, her research focuses on the human rights impl
 ications of domestic and transnational extractive sector activity\, state 
 responsibility for corporate complicity in human rights violations\, the r
 egulation of transnational corporations\, gender and resource extraction\,
  as well as the intersections between transnational corporate activity\, h
 uman rights and international economic law. She is the co-author with Audr
 ey Macklin of The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries\, Human Rights\, a
 nd the Home State Advantage (Routledge 2014 ). She also co-author with Ton
 y VanDuzer and Graham Mayeda of Integrating Sustainable Development into I
 nternational Investment Agreements: A Guide for Developing Countries (Comm
 onwealth Secretariat\, 2013). Penelope is a member of the Human Rights Res
 earch and Education Centre\, the Interdisciplinary Research Group on the T
 erritories of Extractivism (GRITE) and the Center for Environmental Law an
 d Global Sustainability\, at the University of Ottawa\, as well as the SSH
 RC-funded Canadian Partnership on Strengthening Justice for International 
 Crimes. In 2018\, Penelope was awarded the Walter S. Tarnoplosky Award\, r
 ecognizing her as “an individual who has made a significant contribution t
 o human rights. \n
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LOCATION:Online
SUMMARY:Professional responsibility and the defence of extractive corporati
 ons in transnational human rights and environmental litigation in Canadian
  courts 
URL:/law/fr/channels/event/professional-responsibility
 -and-defence-extractive-corporations-transnational-human-rights-and-343304
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