The Ethics, Society, and Law Students’ Association invites you to come out on October 29th to the Centre for Ethics (LA200) seminar room from 6:30pm-8pm to listen to two distinguished lawyers speak about transnational corporate legal accountability in cases of severe human rights abuse, and forced labor.

Cory Wanless, a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, and Grahame Russell, head of Guatemala-based non-profit human rights organization Rights Action, have worked extensively on the HudBay and Nevsun cases surrounding human rights abuse allegations against Canadian mining companies operating abroad in Guatemala and Eritrea respectively, both of which are still making their way through Canadian or international courts.

They will be speaking about their experiences working on these cases as well as the the stakes, complications, and implications of adopting international law on forced labour and slavery into Canadian domestic law.

Refreshments will be provided!

Itinerary:
6:30pm – 7:15pm: Cory and Grahame speak
7:15pm – 7:45pm: Questions and discussion
7:45pm – 8:00pm: Wrap-up and conclusions

☛ please register here

Tue, Oct 29, 2019
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building