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Bridging Theory and Practice through Immersion: Innovations for Teaching Business and Human Rights at Business Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

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Developments in the Field
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Footnotes

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New York University (NYU), Stern School of Business, Center for Business and Human Rights. I am most grateful for the input I received for this piece from various BHR instructors and my colleagues at NYU.

References

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2 Baumann-Pauly, Dorothée and Posner, Michael, ‘Making the Business Case for Human Rights: An Assessment’ in Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Justine Nolan (eds.), Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice (Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2016) 11 Google Scholar.

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7 The instructor, Michael Posner, provided unpublished course material to the author for the purpose of writing this article.

8 The author interviewed the instructors of the class, Florian Wettstein and Ron Popper, to gain insights into their teaching that go beyond the published course outline.

9 University of St Gallen, ‘Course and Examination Fact Sheet: Spring Semester 2017’, http://tools.unisg.ch/Handlers/public/CourseInformationSheet.ashx?Semester=FS17&EventNumber=8,619,1.00 (accessed 27 September 2017).

10 Fair Labor Association, ‘Workplace Code of Conduct’, http://www.fairlabor.org/sites/default/files/fla_code_of_conduct.pdf (accessed 27 September 2017).

11 A recent survey of the BHR Teaching Forum indicated that business schools to date teach mostly corporate social responsibility and only very few teach BHR specifically, but the number of specific BHR classes is growing.

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