Karin Buhmann

 

Key areas of expertise: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Business responsibilities for human rights International human rights law Governance & law reform (especially China and Vietnam) Development law

Research interests include:

- legal and normative aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Business Responsibilities for Human Rights (procedural and substantive creation of norms, forms of regulation);

- comparative analysis of national and international law and 'new governance' and effects on the implementation of rights;

- legal aspects of international development including international development law,

- interaction between hard and soft law, interaction between legal regulation, politics and societal values in a comparative perspective;

- public regulation and corporate/ private self-regulation and its impact on rights implementation including in a developmental context;

- emergence, formulation and application of new forms of law and 'new governance'; law and development;

- East Asian law, esp. administrative and other public law, human rights and labour rights; history of East Asian law and East Asian normativity;

- normative history and emerging regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Responsibilities of Human Rights;

- globalisation of law and the emergent 'Global Public Law';

- good governance and its legal aspects in a European and global development perspective;

- EU politics and forms regulation, in particular with respect to globalisation, third world development and CSR.

Teaching:

Courses taught at the Faculty of Life Sciences:

- Administrative Law

- Law, international governance and CSR

- Global Environmental Governance (session on CSR and international governance)

Courses previously taught at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen:

- Introduction to East Asian Law

- International Labour Law and CSR

- Human Rights and International Development: State duties and corporate responsibilities