Event Date: March 18, 2016 - 11:30am to - 1:00pm
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 5028

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Professor Mendes will be talking about his recent mission to Myanmar, which was sponsored by the International Commission of Jurists, to advise the government on what its approach to negotiating BITs should involve. His particular task was to remind the government that it should not ignore protecting itself against corrupt activities and human rights abuses by foreign companies when its seeks compensation and redress against the companies in the dispute settlement processes under the BITS.

 Professor Mendes is a lawyer, author, professor and has been an advisor to corporations, governments, civil society groups and the United Nations. His teaching, research and consulting interests include public law and democratic institutions, constitutional conventions and law, diversity and ethics in the workplace, global governance, public international law (including anti-terrorism laws and policies) and human rights. Professor Mendes completed his term as Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre on June 30, 2001, and returned to full-time teaching in the Common Law section. He had been Director of the Centre since 1993.