Panel on Constitutional Rights and Corporate Actors; organized for the ICON-S 2018 Conference, 26 June 2018 Hong Kong, SAR.
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PowerPoint Jernej Letnar Cernic <HK-26June2018jlc>
PowerPoint Larry Catá Backer <ICONCorpConstOblgtnPRESENTATIONVERSION6-2018>.
Constitutional Rights and Corporate Actors. Constitutions and constitutional rights are predominantly designed to control the power and (non-)actions of state agencies within a given territory. Victims of corporate human rights abuses have very limited means – either in their home country or the country where the corporation in question is registered or, indeed, before an international forum – to seek access to effective remedies. Against this backdrop, this panel will explore the extent to which constitutional rights provisions should and could directly apply to corporate actors both when they do business at home and abroad. Drawing lessons from a number of jurisdictions such as India, Europe and US, the panel will try to identify whether horizontal application of constitutional rights can be regarded as a generally accepted norm of comparative constitutional law.
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Roundtable on Human Rights and the Business of Social Media: Personal Notes from the Proceedings. Sponsored by the Human Rights Law and Policy Forum (HRLF) of the Law Faculty of the City University of Hong Kong. Held at the City University of Hing Kong, 25 June 2018.
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Against the backdrop of recent controversy regarding Facebook’s failure to protect the personal data of its users and concerns related to the spread of ‘fake news’ or ‘religious hatred’ on social media platforms, this Roundtable will explore how social media is impacting the existing human rights discourse and what new challenges it is posing to the conventional approaches of regulating the behaviour of both individuals and businesses. A panel of experts will lead discussion on issues such as the following: (1) Is social media ‘media’? How social is it?; (2) How should social media deal with different shades of truth? (3) What are the positive and negative human rights impacts of social media? (4) What are the rights and responsibilities of social media companies? and (5)How to regulate social media: what role for states, businesses and individuals?
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