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This transaction was challenging since Lykos is a subsidiary of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a not-for-profit research institution.{{ FIELD }}Represented Jersey City Medical Center in its sale to Robert Wood Johnson/Barnabas Health System.{{ FIELD }}Represented Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in connection with the New Jersey Department of Health for the change of ownership of an assisted living residence in New Jersey as a liaison between the client and the regulators.{{ FIELD }}Represented Kelsey-Seybold Medical Group in its sale to TPG Capital of a minority interest in its management services company.{{ FIELD }}Represented Kode Health, a tech-enabled medical coding company, in its $22.5 million Series B financing led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation by FCA Venture Partners and Epsilon Healthcare Investors.{{ FIELD }}Represented Lehigh Valley Health Network in its merger with Jefferson Health creating a $14.0 billion integrated health delivery system in Eastern Pennsylvania.{{ FIELD }}Represented Medical Home Network in connection with counseling on a myriad of U.S. laws, state and federal Stark and anti-kickback laws, regulating healthcare payment and delivery systems, and best practices for distributing shared savings.{{ FIELD }}Represented Medical Home Network in the investment by Oak HC/FT.{{ FIELD }}Represented MEP Health, a Maryland-based physician emergency medicine group, in its merger with U.S. Acute Care Solutions.{{ FIELD }}Represented Mount Sinai Health System in its joint ventures with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and National Jewish Health.{{ FIELD }}Represented North Haven Credit Partners in connection with an investment and loan to Code 3, free standing emergency room centers in Texas and Nevada.{{ FIELD }}Represented Northern Westchester Hospital in its strategic health system affiliation with Northwell Health.{{ FIELD }}Represented Richmond University Medical Center in its acquisition of St. Vincent’s Staten Island Hospital, and sale of its interest in The Heart Institute to Staten Island University Hospital.{{ FIELD }}Represented Sentinel Capital Partners in their investment in MB2 Dental Solutions, a dental service organization with 85 affiliated practices.{{ FIELD }}Represented Sephardic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in its sale to Allure, Inc. Solera Capital in the sale of its portfolio company The Little Clinic to the retailer Kroger, Inc.{{ FIELD }}Represented South Nassau Communities Hospital in its acquisition of Long Beach Medical Center.{{ FIELD }}Represented St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc. in the spin-off of its outpatient primary care clinics to an affiliate of William F. Ryan Community Health Center, Inc.{{ FIELD }}Represented Teladoc, Inc., in connection with state licensing and regulatory compliance matters.{{ FIELD }}Represented Town Hall Ventures in its co-investment in VillageMD.{{ FIELD }}Represented Virginia Eye Consultants in its sale to CEI Vision Partners.{{ FIELD }}Represented WellBox, Inc. in its establishment of a Medicare chronic care management (CCM).{{ FIELD }}Rick Zall is a partner and chair of King \u0026amp; Spalding’s healthcare transactional and regulatory practice. He represents clients on both transactional and regulatory healthcare matters, including advising healthcare operating companies, private equity investors and lenders on M\u0026amp;A, joint ventures, financings and complex commercial transactions. He advises on state and federal healthcare regulatory compliance matters, including navigating fraud and abuse and corporate practice of medicine prohibitions, Medicare and Medicaid payment rules. Rick also counsels clients in the emerging digital health and health information technology sectors on compliance with data privacy and security laws, telemedicine licensure regulations and health benefit management.\nWith deep experience in the healthcare industry, Rick is known for practical and effective solutions to successfully structure, negotiate and close deals for his clients.\nRick advises clients on regulatory compliance matters including fraud and abuse, corporate practice of medicine, structuring physician incentive arrangements, digital health/telemedicine, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and value-based payments.\nPrior to joining King \u0026amp; Spalding, Rick was a partner and the chairman of the healthcare practice for an Am Law 100 firm. Richard Zall lawyer Partner Recognized for leading major transactions, including a $14 billion merger between Lehigh Valley Health Network and Jefferson Health Law360 Healthcare MVP, 2024  Ranked Band 1 for 19 consecutive years for excellence in healthcare transactional and regulatory law Chambers USA: New York: Healthcare - 2023–2024  Top Ranked Lawyer, Healthcare Chambers USA, New York (2006-2022) \"He is extremely knowledgeable and thoughtful...leaves no stone unturned...He is top of his field in healthcare law.\"  Chambers USA (2022) The Best Lawyers in America: Health Care Law 29th Edition, 2022 Chambers USA: Nationwide: Healthcare: Transactional 2012-2020 The Legal 500 United States: Healthcare \u0026amp; Life Sciences: Healthcare 2011 The Legal 500 United States: Healthcare: Service Providers 2013-2014, 2016-2020 Best Lawyers in America 1991-2021, 2025 New York Super Lawyers 2006-2020 Fellow The New York Academy of Medicine “Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyer,”  Nightingale’s Healthcare News Brown University  New York University New York University School of Law New York Represented Accuity Delivery Systems in its sale to an affiliate of private equity firm, Frazier Healthcare Partners. Represented Apnicure, a healthcare technology and medical device company, in connection with regulatory compliance state telemedicine laws and corporate structuring. Represented Archimedes Health Investors and its portfolio company, National Partners in Health, in connection with the acquisition of Waxahachie Anaesthesia Consultants, National Medical Billing Management, Anaesthesia Resources, and TAMI and their related physician billing and practice management companies. Represented Ares Management LLC, as special healthcare counsel in its acquisitions of both OB Hospitalist Group and Unified Physician Management. Represented Ascension Health and it’s Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton, New York in its sale to The Guthrie Clinic. Represented Bain Capital Ventures in its investment in Strategic Pharmaceutical Solutions, d/b/a Vetsource, an institutional pharmacy that dispenses prescription products to veterinarians and animal hospitals. Represented The Brooklyn Hospital Center in the establishment of ModernMD, an urgent care joint venture with Blue Wolf Capital. Represented Cambia Health in the establishment of a joint venture platform for Cambia (Regence Blue Cross) and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina. Represented Cincinnati Eye Institute (CEI) in the launch of CEI Vision Partners, a new management services organization formed with an investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners. Represented Concerto Healthcare in the sale of its affiliated health plan in Michigan to Centene, a publicly traded HMO. Represented Crystal Run Healthcare in the structuring of an ambulatory surgery joint venture with Orange Regional Medical Center. Represented Data Driven Delivery Systems, LLC in its sale to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Represented Diana Health, a women’s health services company, in its $34.0 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation by .406 Ventures, LRV Health, and AlleyCorp. Represented Eleanor Health, an outpatient addiction treatment provider, in its $50.0 million Series C financing, and $30.0 million Series D financing, led by General Catalyst with participation by Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, Northpond Ventures, Rethink Impact and Emerson Collective. Represented Healthcare Payment Specialists in their sale to acquirer, Nautic Partners Health Connect in establishing a joint venture between Newport Heath Solutions and Northwell Health to commercialize NHS’ population health management software. Represented Helena Special Investments as corporate and regulatory counsel which led a $100.0 million Series A investment in Lykos Therapeutics, provider of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. This transaction was challenging since Lykos is a subsidiary of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a not-for-profit research institution. Represented Jersey City Medical Center in its sale to Robert Wood Johnson/Barnabas Health System. Represented Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in connection with the New Jersey Department of Health for the change of ownership of an assisted living residence in New Jersey as a liaison between the client and the regulators. Represented Kelsey-Seybold Medical Group in its sale to TPG Capital of a minority interest in its management services company. Represented Kode Health, a tech-enabled medical coding company, in its $22.5 million Series B financing led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation by FCA Venture Partners and Epsilon Healthcare Investors. Represented Lehigh Valley Health Network in its merger with Jefferson Health creating a $14.0 billion integrated health delivery system in Eastern Pennsylvania. Represented Medical Home Network in connection with counseling on a myriad of U.S. laws, state and federal Stark and anti-kickback laws, regulating healthcare payment and delivery systems, and best practices for distributing shared savings. Represented Medical Home Network in the investment by Oak HC/FT. Represented MEP Health, a Maryland-based physician emergency medicine group, in its merger with U.S. Acute Care Solutions. Represented Mount Sinai Health System in its joint ventures with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and National Jewish Health. Represented North Haven Credit Partners in connection with an investment and loan to Code 3, free standing emergency room centers in Texas and Nevada. Represented Northern Westchester Hospital in its strategic health system affiliation with Northwell Health. Represented Richmond University Medical Center in its acquisition of St. Vincent’s Staten Island Hospital, and sale of its interest in The Heart Institute to Staten Island University Hospital. Represented Sentinel Capital Partners in their investment in MB2 Dental Solutions, a dental service organization with 85 affiliated practices. Represented Sephardic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in its sale to Allure, Inc. Solera Capital in the sale of its portfolio company The Little Clinic to the retailer Kroger, Inc. Represented South Nassau Communities Hospital in its acquisition of Long Beach Medical Center. Represented St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc. in the spin-off of its outpatient primary care clinics to an affiliate of William F. Ryan Community Health Center, Inc. Represented Teladoc, Inc., in connection with state licensing and regulatory compliance matters. Represented Town Hall Ventures in its co-investment in VillageMD. 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U. J. INT\u0026rsquo;L HUM. RTS. 304 (2008)).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Human Rights Law and Security Detention\u003c/em\u003e, 40 Case Western Reserve journal of International Law 383 (2009),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003ereprinted in\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Martin Scheinin, ed. Terrorism and Human Rights (Elgar, Cheltenham Glos, England, 2013).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePretrial and Preventive Detention of Suspected Terrorists: Options and Constraints under International Law\u003c/em\u003e, 98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 811 (2008) (published by Northwestern University School of Law),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003ereprinted in\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Terrorist Rendition and Detention: State Practices (A. Begum, ed.)\u0026nbsp; 1 (Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Aiding and Abetting of Human Rights Violations: Confusion in the Courts\u003c/em\u003e, 6 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 304 (2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransnational Corporate Accountability and the Rule of Law\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(co-authored with Sean O\u0026rsquo;Brien), in Oliver Williams, ed., Peace Through Commerce: Responsible corporate citizenship and the ideals of the united nations global compact (2008), p. 77.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberty, Judicial Review and the Rule of Law at Guantanamo: A Battle Half Won\u003c/em\u003e, 43 New England Law\u0026nbsp; Review 37 (2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, in Out of the Ashes: Reparations for Gross Violations of Human Rights, K. 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Int\u0026rsquo;l Law 348-353 (2021).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook Review of Alan McPherson, \u003cem\u003eGhosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet\u0026rsquo;s Terror State to Justice\u003c/em\u003e (Univ. North Carolina Press 2019), 42 Hum. Rts. Quarterly 205-212 (2021).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017), HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 41 (2019) 497\u0026ndash;547.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eby Federico Fabbrini (Oxford University Press 2014), in Human Rights Law Review 2016;\u003cbr /\u003edoi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngw008 (England), accessible at http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/28/hrlr.ngw008.full?keytype=ref\u0026amp;ijkey=KCR7pibGybMICRG.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals\u003c/em\u003e, by David Scheffer, 107 American Journal of International Law 252 (2013).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, 100 American Journal of International Law 503 (2006).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Inter-American System of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, 93 American Journal of International Law 555 (1999).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies\u003c/em\u003e, 92 American Journal of International Law 607 (1998).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching International Human Rights Law,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;91 American Journal of International Law 215 (1997).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrative Recent Speaking Engagements:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Can Corporate Social Responsibility?and Human Rights?Assessments?Teach to International Arbitration? \u003c/em\u003e(panel), in Washington Arbitration Week, Washington, D.C., December 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Liability of Business for Human Rights Abuses in Value Chains, in \u003c/em\u003eConference on Les opportunit\u0026eacute;s y les d\u0026eacute;fis pour una convention international sur les entreprises y les droits de l\u0026rsquo;homme, organized by the Paris Human Rights Center of Universit\u0026eacute; Panth\u0026eacute;on-Assas Paris II and the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey, Mexico, Paris, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistoria y perspectivas de las relaciones de los EE.UU. con el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, in 2d International Colloquium on Inter-American Human Rights System, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, UNAM-Boston, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos, Boston, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContrasting Transatlantic Perspectives on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, in webinar on Contemporary Issues in EU-US Relations, City University of London Law School, Institute for the Study of European Law, Jean Monnet Chair in Transatlantic Relations, London, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa responsabilidad de los abogados en materia de empresas y derechos humanos \u003c/em\u003e(Panelist), in Pre Session: Bar Associations and the Business and Human Rights Agenda: A Regional Vision 10 years after the Guiding Principles\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c/strong\u003esponsored by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, in VI Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c/strong\u003eOctober 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevelopments in Business and Human Rights Law for Multi-Jurisdictional Corporate Accountability\u003c/em\u003e, Jindal Society of International Law, Jindal Global Law School, India, August 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuscando la paz con la mayor justicia posible: un recuerdo personal de la negociaci\u0026oacute;n de la JEP, \u003c/em\u003einvited presentation to the Special Tribunal for Peace, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, July 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMesa Redonda: Debida diligencia en derechos humanos en M\u0026eacute;xico: de la discusi\u0026oacute;n a la acci\u0026oacute;n\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Oxfam et al. and financed by European Union et al., Mexico (virtual), March 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl enfoque del proyecto de tratado sobre la regulaci\u0026oacute;n de las empresas, en Seminario Empresas y Derechos Humanos,organizado por el Observatorio del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos de la UNAM, el Instituto de Derechos Humanos y Empresas de la Universidad de Monterrey y la Relator\u0026iacute;a Especial DESCA de la Comisi\u0026oacute;n Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Mexico, March 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePromotion and Defense of Judicial Independence in the United Nations Human Rights System\u003c/em\u003e, Guatemalan Asociaci\u0026oacute;n Guatemalteca de Jueces por la Integridad, co-sponsored by the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, February 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Rights and Investment Arbitration\u003c/em\u003e (panel), Washington Arbitration Week 2020, Washington, D.C. (remote by zoom), December 2020.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLegal Liability and Enforcement\u003c/em\u003e (panel), sponsored by International Commission of Jurists and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, as a side event to the Fifth meeting of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the elaboration of a treaty on business and human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversatorio en empresas y derechos humanos para \u0026aacute;rbitros y abogados\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliaci\u0026oacute;n de la C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComentarios sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eCurso Presencial para abogados de empresas, sponsored by the International Bar Association, the C\u0026aacute;mara de Servicios Legales of the Asociaci\u0026oacute;n Nacional de Emptresas de Colombia (ANDI), and the C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, at the ANDI, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa perspectiva jur\u0026iacute;dica de la debida diligencia corporativa en derechos humanos: experiencias comparadas\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), en Conferencia sobre La debida diligencia empresarial en Derechos Humanos y la sostenibilidad, organized by the Defensor\u0026iacute;a del Pueblo de Colombia, en la Pont\u0026iacute;fica Universidad Javeriana, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, en Diplomado de Formaci\u0026oacute;n en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos \u0026ldquo;H\u0026eacute;ctor Fix Zamudio,\u0026rdquo; sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Actors and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panel), in Balancing Competing Rights: A Conference in Honour of Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex Human Rights Centre, School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, September 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeynote Speaker,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eInversi\u0026oacute;n y Derechos Humanos: Una Mirada Global desde Colombia\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Zuleta Beyond Borders, Bogot\u0026aacute; Colombia, August 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColombia\u0026rsquo;s Special Jurisdiction for Peace\u003c/em\u003e, in panel on Victims\u0026rsquo; Rights, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice, in Conference on The Colombia Peace Process After Two Years, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Washington, D.C., June 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeynote Address,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos: Unos Apuntes sobre Donde Estamos, Adonde Vamos\u003c/em\u003e, Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Derechos Humanos y Empresas, Universidad del Rosario, co-patrocinada por la Universidad Javeriana y otras universidades y por la C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, May 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), 2019 Wolfgang Friedmann Conference, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, April 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Human Rights Law, the Environment, Major Projects and ISDS\u003c/em\u003e, CLE presentation to International Arbitration Practice Group, King \u0026amp; Spalding, New York, New York, February 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eZero Draft: Are We Closer to Solving the Business and Human Rights Crisis?,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Student Association, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Law, Soft and Hard, and Domestic Tort Law,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;in Panel on Public International Law and Corporate Accountability, in Conference on Piercing the Corporate Veil: Multinational Corporate Accountability, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, November 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos: \u0026iquest;D\u0026oacute;nde Estamos y Ad\u0026oacute;nde Vamos?,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Inaugural Address, Institute of Human Rights and Business, University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransitional Justice in Colombia and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;in High Level Conference, The Legacy of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni: Criminal Justice and Human Rights, The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Siracusa, Italy, September 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, en Diplomado de Formaci\u0026oacute;n en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos \u0026ldquo;H\u0026eacute;ctor Fix Zamudio,\u0026rdquo; sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Corte Interamericana, La Justicia y La Paz,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ein Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jos\u0026eacute;, Costa Rica, July 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLas Obligaciones de los Estados en Materia de Medio Ambiente y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, [\u0026ldquo;State Obligations in Matters of Environment and Human Rights\u0026rdquo;], in Seminar on Environment and Human Rights, Observatory on the Inter-American System of Human Rights, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBusiness and Human Rights: Can Business Lawyers Make a Difference?,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eTenth Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., February 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe European Union and the Prospects for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, private briefing in Expert Meeting on Business and Human Rights, European Commission, Brussels, January 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBusiness Accountability for Human Rights Violations\u003c/em\u003e, University of Minnesota Law School Faculty Presentation, Minneapolis, November 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours\u003c/em\u003e, Book Launch, Commentator, United Nations Library Geneva, in collaboration with South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human and Rights and International Law of the University of Johannesburg, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoundtable multi-stakeholder discussion on the Elements of a treaty on business and human rights\u003c/em\u003e, panelist, sponsored by International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Business Duty of Care to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panelist), in OHCHR Consultation:\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Relevance of Human Rights Due Diligence to Determinations of Corporate Liability\u003c/em\u003e, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrevention, human rights due diligence and disclosure\u003c/em\u003e, in program on\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eElements for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, co-sponsored by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscussion on UN Business and Human Rights Treaty,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Webinar, United States Council for International Business, with Robert McCorquodale, June 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccess to Justice and Redress in Extraterritorial Perspective\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panel), in International Seminar,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eBusiness and Human Rights: Comparing Experiences\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d\u0026rsquo;Afers I Relacions, in cooperation with Parlament de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, February 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe process towards a treaty on business and human rights: a roundtable multi-stakeholder discussion\u003c/em\u003e, panel sponsored by the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2016.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOptions for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, panelist on program sponsored by International Organization of Employers, 4th\u0026nbsp;Annual UN World Forum on Business and Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2015.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn International Human Rights Perspective on the Mining Industry\u003c/em\u003e, in \u0026ldquo;A Day of Reflection \u0026ndash; 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He has a solid legal brain, is bilingual, versatile and extremely open-minded. He is a true thought leader\u0026rdquo; \u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;He is very practical, extremely knowledgeable and has made substantial contributions to the field.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Earlier, Chambers noted, \u0026ldquo;An impressed client reports: \u0026lsquo;He is an immense asset to the legal profession and to his firm.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rsquo;\u0026rsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 2022 through 2025 Professor Cassel served as inaugural Co-Chair of the global Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association (BHRLA).\u0026nbsp; He frequently speaks at meetings of the BHRLA, the International Bar Association, and the International Chamber of Commerce, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Cassel advises and provides training to companies on the adoption of policies and procedures on business and human rights, including human rights and environmental due diligence and risk avoidance in their operations and value chains.\u0026nbsp; He also helps resolve claims of adverse impacts by claimants, shareholders and ESG rating agencies.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassel has represented or advised international law experts, former United States diplomats, and other distinguished \u003cem\u003eamici curiae\u003c/em\u003e in numerous cases before the United States Supreme Court.\u0026nbsp; He maintains an extensive \u003cem\u003epro bono\u003c/em\u003e practice with the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, representing former judges, prosecutors, journalists, human rights advocates and electoral candidates unjustly accused of crimes by corrupt and authoritarian regimes in Central America.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Cassel is a member of the editorial board of the American Bar Association\u0026rsquo;s Key Business and Human Rights Documents.\u0026nbsp; His 2023 article for the International Chamber of Commerce Institute of World Business Law, \u003cem\u003eThe \u0026lsquo;Hardening\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;Broadening\u0026rsquo; of Norms on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, is a panoramic analysis of the field.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrior to joining King \u0026amp; Spalding in 2018, Professor Cassel taught and published, most recently at Notre Dame Law School, as a tenured full professor and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow.\u0026nbsp; He has also taught at leading universities in Belgium, England, Hungary, Mexico and Spain, and lectured at many others. He has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and reviews, including in such journals as the Business and Human Rights Journal and the Business Ethics Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Cassel authored the chapter on jurisdiction in the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business (Edward Elgar Pub. 2020), updated in 2024.\u0026nbsp; On behalf of the American Bar Association\u0026rsquo;s Human Rights Center and the Law Society of England and Wales, he was principal author of the \u003cem\u003eWhite Paper: Options for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e (2015).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Cassel is experienced in investigations, negotiations and diplomacy. He was Legal Advisor to the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador; investigated military massacres in Colombia and Thailand; and chaired an independent international panel investigating paramilitary killings in Northern Ireland.\u0026nbsp; Colombia\u0026rsquo;s Nobel Laureate President Juan Manuel Santos called on him to help negotiate the transitional justice provisions of the 2016 peace treaty with FARC guerrillas.\u0026nbsp; President Santos later awarded Cassel the highest honor Colombia confers on foreign civilians.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassel is a former president of the Due Process of Law Foundation.\u0026nbsp; He was elected four times by the Organization of American States to serve on the Board of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, which he served as president.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Cassel is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.\u0026nbsp;[[--readmore--]]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrative Articles:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eState Jurisdiction to Regulate and Adjudicate Transnational Corporate Activity\u003c/em\u003e, in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business.198-222 (Surya Deva and David Birchall, eds., Edward Elgar Pub. 2020).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOutlining the Case for a Common Law Duty of Care of Business to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence\u003c/em\u003e, 1 Business and Human Rights Journal 179 (2016), DOI:\u0026nbsp;http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2016.15\u0026nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, England), accessible at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online\u0026amp;aid=10291000\u0026amp;fileId=S2057019816000158.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePresentaci\u0026oacute;n: Represi\u0026oacute;n Judicializada en el Ecuador\u003c/em\u003e, in\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eEl uso del poder judicial para vulnerar los derechos humanos en el Ecuador\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(2016) (Interamerican Institute for Democracy and Inter-American Bar Association); English version:\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c/em\u003e, in\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Role of the Judiciary in the Violation of Human Rights in Ecuador\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(2016), accessible at\u0026nbsp;http://www.intdemocratic.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Role-of-the-Judiciary-in-the-Violation-of-Human-Rights-in-Ecuador.pdf.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe United States and Human Rights Treaties: Can We Meet Our Commitment\u003c/em\u003es?, American Bar Association,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eHuman Rights\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Magazine, Volume 41, No. 2 (2015).\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Paper: Options for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;6 Notre Dame J. Int\u0026rsquo;l \u0026amp; Comp. Law, Iss. 1, Art. 1 (2015), co-authored with Anita Ramasastry for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, and the Law Society of England and Wales (also accessible at http://business-humanrights.org/en/white-paper-outlines-possible-options-for-business-human-rights-treaty#c124730).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSistemas Regionales de Protecci\u0026oacute;n de Derechos Humanos y la Resistencia por parte de los Estados: El Caso del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (2011-2013),\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ein Estado constitucional, derechos humanos, justicia y vida universitaria: Estudios en homenaje a Jorge Carpizo, Tomo V, Volumen 1, p. 401, Instituto de Investigaciones Jur\u0026iacute;dicas, Universidad Aut\u0026oacute;noma de M\u0026eacute;xico (2015).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuing Americans for Human Rights Torts Overseas: The Supreme Court Leaves the Door Open,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e89 Notre Dame Law Review 1773 (2014).\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe United Nations Global Compact and Human Rights: A Modest But Useful Niche\u003c/em\u003e, in Oliver Williams, ed., Sustainable Development:\u0026nbsp; the Millennium Development Goals, The U.N. Global Compact and the common good 184 (2014).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRegional Human Rights Systems and State Pushback: The Case of the Inter-American Human Rights System (2011-2013),\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e33 Human Rights Law Journal 1 (2013).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl Alcance e Impacto Cada Vez Mayores de las Reparaciones Ordenadas por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, in\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eLa Justicia Constitucional y su Internacionalizaci\u0026oacute;n. \u0026iquest;Hacia un\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIus Constitutionale Commune\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003een Am\u0026eacute;rica Latina?, Tomo II, p. 215, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Instituto de Investigaciones Jur\u0026iacute;dicas de la Universidad Aut\u0026oacute;noma de M\u0026eacute;xico, eds., (2010).\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas Multinacionales y Complicidad en Violaciones de los Derechos Humanos: Confusi\u0026oacute;n Judicial Estadounidense\u003c/em\u003e, 63 Derecho Pontificia Universidad Cat\u0026oacute;lica del Per\u0026uacute; 255 (2009) (updated version in Spanish of\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eCorporate Aiding and Abetting of Human Rights Violations: Confusion in the Courts\u003c/em\u003e, 6 NW. U. J. INT\u0026rsquo;L HUM. RTS. 304 (2008)).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Human Rights Law and Security Detention\u003c/em\u003e, 40 Case Western Reserve journal of International Law 383 (2009),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003ereprinted in\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Martin Scheinin, ed. Terrorism and Human Rights (Elgar, Cheltenham Glos, England, 2013).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePretrial and Preventive Detention of Suspected Terrorists: Options and Constraints under International Law\u003c/em\u003e, 98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 811 (2008) (published by Northwestern University School of Law),\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003ereprinted in\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Terrorist Rendition and Detention: State Practices (A. Begum, ed.)\u0026nbsp; 1 (Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Aiding and Abetting of Human Rights Violations: Confusion in the Courts\u003c/em\u003e, 6 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 304 (2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransnational Corporate Accountability and the Rule of Law\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(co-authored with Sean O\u0026rsquo;Brien), in Oliver Williams, ed., Peace Through Commerce: Responsible corporate citizenship and the ideals of the united nations global compact (2008), p. 77.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiberty, Judicial Review and the Rule of Law at Guantanamo: A Battle Half Won\u003c/em\u003e, 43 New England Law\u0026nbsp; Review 37 (2008).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, in Out of the Ashes: Reparations for Gross Violations of Human Rights, K. De Feyter, S. Parmentier, M. Bossuyt and P. Lemmens eds. (Intersentia 2005), p. 191; reprinted in\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eRevista do Insitituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eAno 7, Vol.7, N\u0026uacute;m. 7, 2006/2007 p. 91.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Globalization of Human Rights: Consciousness, Law and Reality, 2\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eNW.U.J. Int\u0026rsquo;l Hum. Rts. 6 (2004).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Remedies in National Criminal Cases: ICJ Judgment in Germany v. United States\u003c/em\u003e, 15 Leiden Journal of International Law 69 (2002).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Rights and Business Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace\u003c/em\u003e, 11 Business Ethics Quarterly\u0026nbsp; 261 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Lucha Contra La Impunidad ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, in Verdad y Justicia: Homenaje a Emilio Mignone, Juan M\u0026eacute;ndez et al., eds. (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights 2001) 357.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoes International Human Rights Law Make a Difference?\u003c/em\u003e, 2 Chicago Journal of International Law\u0026nbsp; 121 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpowering United States Courts to Adjudge Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court\u003c/em\u003e, 35 New England Law Review 421 (2001).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInter-American Human Rights Law, Soft and Hard\u003c/em\u003e, in Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System 393 (Dinah Shelton, ed.)(2000).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJudicial Remedies for Treaty Violations in Criminal Cases: Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals in United States Death Penalty Cases\u003c/em\u003e, 12 Leiden Journal of International Law 851 (1999).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ICC\u0026rsquo;s New Legal Landscape: The Need to Expand United States Domestic Jurisdiction to Prosecute Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity\u003c/em\u003e, 23 Fordham International Law Journal 378 (1999).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl Per\u0026uacute; Se Retira de la Corte: Afrontar\u0026aacute; el Reto el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos?\u003c/em\u003e, 29 Revista Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 69 (1999) (Spanish language version of\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003ePeru Withdraws from the Court\u003c/em\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System\u003c/em\u003e, (co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal), in El Futuro del Sistema Interamericano de Protecci\u0026oacute;n de los Derechos Humanos 539 (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights 1998).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Initiatives: A Second Human Rights Revolution?\u003c/em\u003e, 19 Fordham International Law Journal 1963 (1996).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Reviews:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook Review of Bertrand Ramcharan, \u003cem\u003eA History of the UN Human Rights Programme and Secretariat\u003c/em\u003e (Brill Nijhoff 2020), 115 American J. Int\u0026rsquo;l Law 348-353 (2021).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook Review of Alan McPherson, \u003cem\u003eGhosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet\u0026rsquo;s Terror State to Justice\u003c/em\u003e (Univ. North Carolina Press 2019), 42 Hum. Rts. Quarterly 205-212 (2021).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017), HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 41 (2019) 497\u0026ndash;547.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eby Federico Fabbrini (Oxford University Press 2014), in Human Rights Law Review 2016;\u003cbr /\u003edoi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngw008 (England), accessible at http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/28/hrlr.ngw008.full?keytype=ref\u0026amp;ijkey=KCR7pibGybMICRG.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals\u003c/em\u003e, by David Scheffer, 107 American Journal of International Law 252 (2013).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, 100 American Journal of International Law 503 (2006).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Inter-American System of Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, 93 American Journal of International Law 555 (1999).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies\u003c/em\u003e, 92 American Journal of International Law 607 (1998).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching International Human Rights Law,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;91 American Journal of International Law 215 (1997).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrative Recent Speaking Engagements:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Can Corporate Social Responsibility?and Human Rights?Assessments?Teach to International Arbitration? \u003c/em\u003e(panel), in Washington Arbitration Week, Washington, D.C., December 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Liability of Business for Human Rights Abuses in Value Chains, in \u003c/em\u003eConference on Les opportunit\u0026eacute;s y les d\u0026eacute;fis pour una convention international sur les entreprises y les droits de l\u0026rsquo;homme, organized by the Paris Human Rights Center of Universit\u0026eacute; Panth\u0026eacute;on-Assas Paris II and the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey, Mexico, Paris, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistoria y perspectivas de las relaciones de los EE.UU. con el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, in 2d International Colloquium on Inter-American Human Rights System, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, UNAM-Boston, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos, Boston, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContrasting Transatlantic Perspectives on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, in webinar on Contemporary Issues in EU-US Relations, City University of London Law School, Institute for the Study of European Law, Jean Monnet Chair in Transatlantic Relations, London, November 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa responsabilidad de los abogados en materia de empresas y derechos humanos \u003c/em\u003e(Panelist), in Pre Session: Bar Associations and the Business and Human Rights Agenda: A Regional Vision 10 years after the Guiding Principles\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c/strong\u003esponsored by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, in VI Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c/strong\u003eOctober 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevelopments in Business and Human Rights Law for Multi-Jurisdictional Corporate Accountability\u003c/em\u003e, Jindal Society of International Law, Jindal Global Law School, India, August 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuscando la paz con la mayor justicia posible: un recuerdo personal de la negociaci\u0026oacute;n de la JEP, \u003c/em\u003einvited presentation to the Special Tribunal for Peace, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, July 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMesa Redonda: Debida diligencia en derechos humanos en M\u0026eacute;xico: de la discusi\u0026oacute;n a la acci\u0026oacute;n\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Oxfam et al. and financed by European Union et al., Mexico (virtual), March 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl enfoque del proyecto de tratado sobre la regulaci\u0026oacute;n de las empresas, en Seminario Empresas y Derechos Humanos,organizado por el Observatorio del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos de la UNAM, el Instituto de Derechos Humanos y Empresas de la Universidad de Monterrey y la Relator\u0026iacute;a Especial DESCA de la Comisi\u0026oacute;n Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Mexico, March 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePromotion and Defense of Judicial Independence in the United Nations Human Rights System\u003c/em\u003e, Guatemalan Asociaci\u0026oacute;n Guatemalteca de Jueces por la Integridad, co-sponsored by the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, February 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuman Rights and Investment Arbitration\u003c/em\u003e (panel), Washington Arbitration Week 2020, Washington, D.C. (remote by zoom), December 2020.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLegal Liability and Enforcement\u003c/em\u003e (panel), sponsored by International Commission of Jurists and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, as a side event to the Fifth meeting of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the elaboration of a treaty on business and human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversatorio en empresas y derechos humanos para \u0026aacute;rbitros y abogados\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliaci\u0026oacute;n de la C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComentarios sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eCurso Presencial para abogados de empresas, sponsored by the International Bar Association, the C\u0026aacute;mara de Servicios Legales of the Asociaci\u0026oacute;n Nacional de Emptresas de Colombia (ANDI), and the C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, at the ANDI, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa perspectiva jur\u0026iacute;dica de la debida diligencia corporativa en derechos humanos: experiencias comparadas\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), en Conferencia sobre La debida diligencia empresarial en Derechos Humanos y la sostenibilidad, organized by the Defensor\u0026iacute;a del Pueblo de Colombia, en la Pont\u0026iacute;fica Universidad Javeriana, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, October 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, en Diplomado de Formaci\u0026oacute;n en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos \u0026ldquo;H\u0026eacute;ctor Fix Zamudio,\u0026rdquo; sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Actors and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panel), in Balancing Competing Rights: A Conference in Honour of Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex Human Rights Centre, School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, September 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeynote Speaker,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eInversi\u0026oacute;n y Derechos Humanos: Una Mirada Global desde Colombia\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Zuleta Beyond Borders, Bogot\u0026aacute; Colombia, August 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColombia\u0026rsquo;s Special Jurisdiction for Peace\u003c/em\u003e, in panel on Victims\u0026rsquo; Rights, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice, in Conference on The Colombia Peace Process After Two Years, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Washington, D.C., June 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeynote Address,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos: Unos Apuntes sobre Donde Estamos, Adonde Vamos\u003c/em\u003e, Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Derechos Humanos y Empresas, Universidad del Rosario, co-patrocinada por la Universidad Javeriana y otras universidades y por la C\u0026aacute;mara de Comercio de Bogot\u0026aacute;, Bogot\u0026aacute;, Colombia, May 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(panel), 2019 Wolfgang Friedmann Conference, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, April 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Human Rights Law, the Environment, Major Projects and ISDS\u003c/em\u003e, CLE presentation to International Arbitration Practice Group, King \u0026amp; Spalding, New York, New York, February 2019.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eZero Draft: Are We Closer to Solving the Business and Human Rights Crisis?,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Student Association, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Law, Soft and Hard, and Domestic Tort Law,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;in Panel on Public International Law and Corporate Accountability, in Conference on Piercing the Corporate Veil: Multinational Corporate Accountability, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, November 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos: \u0026iquest;D\u0026oacute;nde Estamos y Ad\u0026oacute;nde Vamos?,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Inaugural Address, Institute of Human Rights and Business, University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransitional Justice in Colombia and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;in High Level Conference, The Legacy of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni: Criminal Justice and Human Rights, The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Siracusa, Italy, September 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpresas y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, en Diplomado de Formaci\u0026oacute;n en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos \u0026ldquo;H\u0026eacute;ctor Fix Zamudio,\u0026rdquo; sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Corte Interamericana, La Justicia y La Paz,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ein Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jos\u0026eacute;, Costa Rica, July 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLas Obligaciones de los Estados en Materia de Medio Ambiente y Derechos Humanos\u003c/em\u003e, [\u0026ldquo;State Obligations in Matters of Environment and Human Rights\u0026rdquo;], in Seminar on Environment and Human Rights, Observatory on the Inter-American System of Human Rights, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBusiness and Human Rights: Can Business Lawyers Make a Difference?,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eTenth Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., February 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe European Union and the Prospects for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, private briefing in Expert Meeting on Business and Human Rights, European Commission, Brussels, January 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBusiness Accountability for Human Rights Violations\u003c/em\u003e, University of Minnesota Law School Faculty Presentation, Minneapolis, November 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours\u003c/em\u003e, Book Launch, Commentator, United Nations Library Geneva, in collaboration with South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human and Rights and International Law of the University of Johannesburg, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoundtable multi-stakeholder discussion on the Elements of a treaty on business and human rights\u003c/em\u003e, panelist, sponsored by International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Business Duty of Care to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panelist), in OHCHR Consultation:\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Relevance of Human Rights Due Diligence to Determinations of Corporate Liability\u003c/em\u003e, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrevention, human rights due diligence and disclosure\u003c/em\u003e, in program on\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eElements for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, co-sponsored by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiscussion on UN Business and Human Rights Treaty,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Webinar, United States Council for International Business, with Robert McCorquodale, June 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccess to Justice and Redress in Extraterritorial Perspective\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(panel), in International Seminar,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eBusiness and Human Rights: Comparing Experiences\u003c/em\u003e, sponsored by Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d\u0026rsquo;Afers I Relacions, in cooperation with Parlament de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, February 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe process towards a treaty on business and human rights: a roundtable multi-stakeholder discussion\u003c/em\u003e, panel sponsored by the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2016.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOptions for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights\u003c/em\u003e, panelist on program sponsored by International Organization of Employers, 4th\u0026nbsp;Annual UN World Forum on Business and Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2015.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn International Human Rights Perspective on the Mining Industry\u003c/em\u003e, in \u0026ldquo;A Day of Reflection \u0026ndash; 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:detail=\u0026gt;\"National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2000)\"}{{ FIELD }}{:title=\u0026gt;\"Community Peacemaker Award for Law.\", :detail=\u0026gt;\"The Peace Museum, Chicago (1998)\"}{{ FIELD }}{:title=\u0026gt;\"Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism for broadcast commentary. \", :detail=\u0026gt;\"Society of Professional Journalists, Chicago (1997)\"}{{ FIELD }}{:title=\u0026gt;\"Citation for Public Service\", :detail=\u0026gt;\"Public Interest Law Initiative, Chicago (1994)\"}{{ FIELD }}Advised CEO’s of several companies on issues of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law relating to humanitarian aid in a war zone in the Middle East.{{ FIELD }}Served as Claimant’s expert witness on rule of law issues in Nicaragua in an international commercial arbitration brought against insurance companies for Claimant’s losses in Nicaragua.{{ FIELD }}Successfully represented a Fortune 150 company in opposing inclusion on the United Nations list of companies materially supporting unlawful settlements in the West Bank.{{ FIELD }}Represented Chevron in rebutting unfounded allegations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories.{{ FIELD }}Represented Venezuelan political opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa pro bono before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in opposition to his prolonged, incommunicado detention by Venezuelan authorities, which was converted to house arrest in February 2026.{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 25 company on heightened human rights due diligence in Conflict Affected and High Risk Areas (“CAHRA”).{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 25 company on human rights risks and standards for green bonds.{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 25 company on human rights risks and standards for carbon credits.{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 50 company on securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (“FPIC”) of indigenous communities near a lithium mine.{{ FIELD }}Represented Chevron before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in regard to the allegedly arbitrary detention of a lawyer disbarred after committing fraud against the company.{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 25 company on the arbitrary detention by a government of an employee of one of its contractors.{{ FIELD }}Successfully represented a Fortune 150 company in opposing inclusion on the United Nations list of companies materially supporting unlawful settlements in the West Bank.{{ FIELD }}Advised a Fortune 50 financial company on a complaint against it filed with a National Contact Point of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.{{ FIELD }}Advised a major Japanese multinational company on a complaint against it filed with a National Contact Point of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 government on its participation in advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Court of Justice.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 government on its participation in advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 government on its participation in UN negotiations on a legally binding instrument on business and human rights.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 government on its participation in UN negotiations on a legally binding instrument on plastics pollution.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 government on its participation in negotiations on the UN Convention against Cybercrime.{{ FIELD }}Advised a G20 governmental agency on guidelines for its companies in matters of business and human rights.{{ FIELD }}Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Juan Holmann Chamorro, the Managing Editor of the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper La Prensa, in proceedings against the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega for false imprisonment and other gross violations of human rights.{{ FIELD }}Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights José Rubén Zamora, the award-winning journalist, editor and founder of El Periodico newspaper, against corrupt judges and prosecutors in Guatemala who falsely convicted, imprisoned and mistreated him.{{ FIELD }}Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights the former Attorney General, the former chief anti-corruption prosecutor, the former human rights ombudsman, and ten other former judges and prosecutors who fought corruption in Guatemala, against corrupt prosecutors who persecuted them and forced them to flee the country.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for former United States diplomats and international development practitioners as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court in support of certiorari in Jam v. International Finance Corporation, No. 21-995. Amici include, among others, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Brian Atwood, former head of the United States Agency for International Development; and Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center and former USAID senior official. The amicus brief argues in support of judicial review of IFC enforcement of social and environmental conditions on development loans.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for the owners of Nicavisión, S.A., the corporate owner of the last independent television station with nationwide coverage in Nicaragua, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2021 the Commission granted precautionary measures against government repression. The clients credit the measures with saving the station.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Judge Erika Aifán, a leading anti-corruption judge in Guatemala, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2021 the State Department awarded Judge Aifán recognition as an “International Woman of Courage.” Corrupt officials have sought for years to remove her from the bench, where she oversees cases against them. The matter remains pending.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for the Reporter and six Advisers to the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1637 (2020). Amici argued, and the Supreme Court unanimously agreed, that nonsignatories may in exceptional circumstances enforce or be bound by international arbitration agreements under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the Federal Arbitration Act.{{ FIELD }}Advising a Middle Eastern State-owned enterprise concerning potential cross-border human rights issues and claims that could arise from a planned electric power plant.{{ FIELD }}Advising a United States defense contractor on human rights risks with regard to foreign sales of certain military hardware.{{ FIELD }}Advising a global energy company on policy relating to environmental justice.{{ FIELD }}Representing Chevron Corporation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in proceedings relating to the fraudulent environmental litigation against the company in Ecuador (2018 and ongoing).{{ FIELD }}Representing Chevron Corporation with regard to inquiries and reports of United Nations Human Rights rapporteurs relating to the fraudulent environmental litigation against the company in Ecuador (2018 and ongoing).{{ FIELD }}Advising an international oil company on improving its human rights policies, procedures and reporting, as well as its rating by the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (2019).{{ FIELD }}Assisting an international metals company in vetting potential expert witnesses and in eventually selecting an expert on corporate social responsibility, for purposes of a civil litigation concerning a transnational environmental dispute (2019).{{ FIELD }}Advising an international oil company on the human rights implications of a personnel matter raising transnational legal issues (2019).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, in Andrade v. Bolivia, Judgment of Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2016) (Bolivia liable for violations of right to property, freedom of movement and right to trial without undue delay).{{ FIELD }}Represented Government of Colombia in negotiations of justice provisions of peace accords with FARC guerrillas (2015).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for leading Venezuelan dissident in Brewer-Carías v. Venezuela, Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2014) (alleging denials of due process and false, politically motivated charges); Communication also addressed to United Nations Human Rights Committee (2016).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for daughter of Cuban dissident in Payá v. Spain, filed in European Court of Human Rights (2014) (challenging refusal of Spain’s National Court to investigate death in Cuba of Oswaldo Payá, prominent Cuban dissident and dual Spanish citizen).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for 23 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S. Ct. 1659 (2013), arguing that suits in U.S. courts for human rights violations abroad should be permitted on a case-by-case basis.{{ FIELD }}Amicus Brief for Chevron in successful opposition to petition before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking enforcement of a fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment against the company (Request MC 48/12, 2012).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for civilian victims of bombing, Case of the Santo Domingo Massacre vs. Colombia, Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2012) (Colombia found liable).{{ FIELD }}Expert witness, presented by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Contreras v. El Salvador (2011) (forced disappearances).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for petitioner National United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, Thailand, before International Criminal Court (2010-2014).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for 26 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Samantar v. Yousuf et al., 130 S. Ct. 2278 (2009), arguing that former foreign government officials should not be granted immunity in U.S. courts for torture and extrajudicial execution.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for 25 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), arguing that prisoners in Guantanamo are entitled to judicial review of their detentions.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for International Humanitarian Law Experts as Amici Curiae in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), arguing that prisoners at Guantanamo are entitled to fair procedures and due process of law.{{ FIELD }}Testimony as expert before Constitutional Court of Indonesia on compliance of Indonesia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Law with international human rights law (2006).{{ FIELD }}Expert witness, presented by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador (2005) (children disappeared during the civil war).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Amici Curiae Legal and Religious Organizations in Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), arguing that a U.S. citizen arrested and detained in U.S., and alleged to be “unlawful enemy combatant,” was entitled to be tried or released.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for 28 Career Foreign Service Diplomats in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), arguing that human rights litigation in federal courts under Alien Tort Statute is consistent with United States foreign policy.{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, in Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion OC-18, Rights of Undocumented Immigrant Workers (2003).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Former Venezuelan Foreign Minister in Figueredo v. Venezuela, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2000) (finding violations of due process and rights of defense in political prosecution of Former Foreign Minister of Venezuela).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for amici curiae MacArthur Justice Center and International Human Rights Law Institute before Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Advisory Opinion OC-16, The Right to Information about Consular Assistance within the Framework of Guarantees of Due Process of Law (1999).{{ FIELD }}Counsel for Guatemalan labor leader in Gómez López v. Guatemala, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (1996) (finding violations of right to physical integrity in attempted assassination of Guatemalan labor leader).{{ FIELD }}Professor Douglass Cassel is a globally recognized expert on business and human rights, international human rights and criminal law, and public international law.  He advises and represents corporate, governmental and non-governmental clients in matters before regional human rights courts and commissions, United Nations human rights bodies, the International Criminal Court, National Contact Points under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, national courts, international arbitrations, the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and in international treaty negotiations and peace negotiations.\nChambers \u0026amp; Partners 2026 recognizes Cassel as a “Global Market Leader” (band 1) in Business and Human Rights Law.  Respondents informed Chambers that Cassel is “simply one of the best lawyers I have ever worked with” … “Doug has both the intellectual depth of a professor, but is also a very good practitioner. He has a solid legal brain, is bilingual, versatile and extremely open-minded. He is a true thought leader” … “He is very practical, extremely knowledgeable and has made substantial contributions to the field.”  Earlier, Chambers noted, “An impressed client reports: ‘He is an immense asset to the legal profession and to his firm.’’’\nFrom 2022 through 2025 Professor Cassel served as inaugural Co-Chair of the global Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association (BHRLA).  He frequently speaks at meetings of the BHRLA, the International Bar Association, and the International Chamber of Commerce, among others.\nProfessor Cassel advises and provides training to companies on the adoption of policies and procedures on business and human rights, including human rights and environmental due diligence and risk avoidance in their operations and value chains.  He also helps resolve claims of adverse impacts by claimants, shareholders and ESG rating agencies.\nCassel has represented or advised international law experts, former United States diplomats, and other distinguished amici curiae in numerous cases before the United States Supreme Court.  He maintains an extensive pro bono practice with the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, representing former judges, prosecutors, journalists, human rights advocates and electoral candidates unjustly accused of crimes by corrupt and authoritarian regimes in Central America.\nProfessor Cassel is a member of the editorial board of the American Bar Association’s Key Business and Human Rights Documents.  His 2023 article for the International Chamber of Commerce Institute of World Business Law, The ‘Hardening’ and ‘Broadening’ of Norms on Business and Human Rights, is a panoramic analysis of the field.\nPrior to joining King \u0026amp; Spalding in 2018, Professor Cassel taught and published, most recently at Notre Dame Law School, as a tenured full professor and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow.  He has also taught at leading universities in Belgium, England, Hungary, Mexico and Spain, and lectured at many others. He has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and reviews, including in such journals as the Business and Human Rights Journal and the Business Ethics Quarterly.\nProfessor Cassel authored the chapter on jurisdiction in the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business (Edward Elgar Pub. 2020), updated in 2024.  On behalf of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Center and the Law Society of England and Wales, he was principal author of the White Paper: Options for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights (2015).\nProfessor Cassel is experienced in investigations, negotiations and diplomacy. He was Legal Advisor to the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador; investigated military massacres in Colombia and Thailand; and chaired an independent international panel investigating paramilitary killings in Northern Ireland.  Colombia’s Nobel Laureate President Juan Manuel Santos called on him to help negotiate the transitional justice provisions of the 2016 peace treaty with FARC guerrillas.  President Santos later awarded Cassel the highest honor Colombia confers on foreign civilians.\nCassel is a former president of the Due Process of Law Foundation.  He was elected four times by the Organization of American States to serve on the Board of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, which he served as president.\nProfessor Cassel is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. \nIllustrative Articles: \nState Jurisdiction to Regulate and Adjudicate Transnational Corporate Activity, in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business.198-222 (Surya Deva and David Birchall, eds., Edward Elgar Pub. 2020).\nOutlining the Case for a Common Law Duty of Care of Business to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence, 1 Business and Human Rights Journal 179 (2016), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2016.15 (Cambridge University Press, England), accessible at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online\u0026amp;aid=10291000\u0026amp;fileId=S2057019816000158.\nPresentación: Represión Judicializada en el Ecuador, in El uso del poder judicial para vulnerar los derechos humanos en el Ecuador (2016) (Interamerican Institute for Democracy and Inter-American Bar Association); English version: Introduction, in The Role of the Judiciary in the Violation of Human Rights in Ecuador (2016), accessible at http://www.intdemocratic.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Role-of-the-Judiciary-in-the-Violation-of-Human-Rights-in-Ecuador.pdf.\nThe United States and Human Rights Treaties: Can We Meet Our Commitments?, American Bar Association,  Human Rights Magazine, Volume 41, No. 2 (2015). \nWhite Paper: Options for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights 6 Notre Dame J. Int’l \u0026amp; Comp. Law, Iss. 1, Art. 1 (2015), co-authored with Anita Ramasastry for the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, and the Law Society of England and Wales (also accessible at http://business-humanrights.org/en/white-paper-outlines-possible-options-for-business-human-rights-treaty#c124730).\nSistemas Regionales de Protección de Derechos Humanos y la Resistencia por parte de los Estados: El Caso del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (2011-2013), in Estado constitucional, derechos humanos, justicia y vida universitaria: Estudios en homenaje a Jorge Carpizo, Tomo V, Volumen 1, p. 401, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Autónoma de México (2015).\nSuing Americans for Human Rights Torts Overseas: The Supreme Court Leaves the Door Open, 89 Notre Dame Law Review 1773 (2014).  \nThe United Nations Global Compact and Human Rights: A Modest But Useful Niche, in Oliver Williams, ed., Sustainable Development:  the Millennium Development Goals, The U.N. Global Compact and the common good 184 (2014).\nRegional Human Rights Systems and State Pushback: The Case of the Inter-American Human Rights System (2011-2013), 33 Human Rights Law Journal 1 (2013).\nEl Alcance e Impacto Cada Vez Mayores de las Reparaciones Ordenadas por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, in La Justicia Constitucional y su Internacionalización. ¿Hacia un Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina?, Tomo II, p. 215, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Autónoma de México, eds., (2010).\nEmpresas Multinacionales y Complicidad en Violaciones de los Derechos Humanos: Confusión Judicial Estadounidense, 63 Derecho Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 255 (2009) (updated version in Spanish of Corporate Aiding and Abetting of Human Rights Violations: Confusion in the Courts, 6 NW. U. J. INT’L HUM. RTS. 304 (2008)).\nInternational Human Rights Law and Security Detention, 40 Case Western Reserve journal of International Law 383 (2009), reprinted in Martin Scheinin, ed. Terrorism and Human Rights (Elgar, Cheltenham Glos, England, 2013).\nPretrial and Preventive Detention of Suspected Terrorists: Options and Constraints under International Law, 98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 811 (2008) (published by Northwestern University School of Law), reprinted in Terrorist Rendition and Detention: State Practices (A. Begum, ed.)  1 (Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008).\nCorporate Aiding and Abetting of Human Rights Violations: Confusion in the Courts, 6 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 304 (2008).\nTransnational Corporate Accountability and the Rule of Law (co-authored with Sean O’Brien), in Oliver Williams, ed., Peace Through Commerce: Responsible corporate citizenship and the ideals of the united nations global compact (2008), p. 77.\nLiberty, Judicial Review and the Rule of Law at Guantanamo: A Battle Half Won, 43 New England Law  Review 37 (2008).\nThe Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in Out of the Ashes: Reparations for Gross Violations of Human Rights, K. De Feyter, S. Parmentier, M. Bossuyt and P. Lemmens eds. (Intersentia 2005), p. 191; reprinted in Revista do Insitituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, Ano 7, Vol.7, Núm. 7, 2006/2007 p. 91. \nThe Globalization of Human Rights: Consciousness, Law and Reality, 2 NW.U.J. Int’l Hum. Rts. 6 (2004).\nInternational Remedies in National Criminal Cases: ICJ Judgment in Germany v. United States, 15 Leiden Journal of International Law 69 (2002).\nHuman Rights and Business Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace, 11 Business Ethics Quarterly  261 (2001).\nLa Lucha Contra La Impunidad ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, in Verdad y Justicia: Homenaje a Emilio Mignone, Juan Méndez et al., eds. (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights 2001) 357.\nDoes International Human Rights Law Make a Difference?, 2 Chicago Journal of International Law  121 (2001).\nEmpowering United States Courts to Adjudge Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, 35 New England Law Review 421 (2001).\nInter-American Human Rights Law, Soft and Hard, in Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System 393 (Dinah Shelton, ed.)(2000).\nJudicial Remedies for Treaty Violations in Criminal Cases: Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals in United States Death Penalty Cases, 12 Leiden Journal of International Law 851 (1999).\nThe ICC’s New Legal Landscape: The Need to Expand United States Domestic Jurisdiction to Prosecute Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 23 Fordham International Law Journal 378 (1999).\nEl Perú Se Retira de la Corte: Afrontará el Reto el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos?, 29 Revista Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 69 (1999) (Spanish language version of Peru Withdraws from the Court).\nThe Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System, (co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal), in El Futuro del Sistema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos Humanos 539 (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights 1998).\nCorporate Initiatives: A Second Human Rights Revolution?, 19 Fordham International Law Journal 1963 (1996).\n \nBook Reviews:\nBook Review of Bertrand Ramcharan, A History of the UN Human Rights Programme and Secretariat (Brill Nijhoff 2020), 115 American J. Int’l Law 348-353 (2021).\nBook Review of Alan McPherson, Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice (Univ. North Carolina Press 2019), 42 Hum. Rts. Quarterly 205-212 (2021).\nBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours (Surya Deva and David Bilchitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017), HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 41 (2019) 497–547.\nFundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective, by Federico Fabbrini (Oxford University Press 2014), in Human Rights Law Review 2016;doi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngw008 (England), accessible at http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/28/hrlr.ngw008.full?keytype=ref\u0026amp;ijkey=KCR7pibGybMICRG.\nAll the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer, 107 American Journal of International Law 252 (2013).\nThe Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 100 American Journal of International Law 503 (2006).\nThe Inter-American System of Human Rights, 93 American Journal of International Law 555 (1999).\nTransitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies, 92 American Journal of International Law 607 (1998).\nTeaching International Human Rights Law, 91 American Journal of International Law 215 (1997).\n \nIllustrative Recent Speaking Engagements:\nWhat Can Corporate Social Responsibility?and Human Rights?Assessments?Teach to International Arbitration? (panel), in Washington Arbitration Week, Washington, D.C., December 2021.\nCivil Liability of Business for Human Rights Abuses in Value Chains, in Conference on Les opportunités y les défis pour una convention international sur les entreprises y les droits de l’homme, organized by the Paris Human Rights Center of Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II and the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey, Mexico, Paris, November 2021.\nHistoria y perspectivas de las relaciones de los EE.UU. con el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, in 2d International Colloquium on Inter-American Human Rights System, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, UNAM-Boston, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos, Boston, November 2021.\nContrasting Transatlantic Perspectives on Business and Human Rights, in webinar on Contemporary Issues in EU-US Relations, City University of London Law School, Institute for the Study of European Law, Jean Monnet Chair in Transatlantic Relations, London, November 2021.\nLa responsabilidad de los abogados en materia de empresas y derechos humanos (Panelist), in Pre Session: Bar Associations and the Business and Human Rights Agenda: A Regional Vision 10 years after the Guiding Principles, sponsored by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, in VI Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean, October 2021.\nDevelopments in Business and Human Rights Law for Multi-Jurisdictional Corporate Accountability, Jindal Society of International Law, Jindal Global Law School, India, August 2021.\nBuscando la paz con la mayor justicia posible: un recuerdo personal de la negociación de la JEP, invited presentation to the Special Tribunal for Peace, Bogotá, Colombia, July 2021.\nMesa Redonda: Debida diligencia en derechos humanos en México: de la discusión a la acción, sponsored by Oxfam et al. and financed by European Union et al., Mexico (virtual), March 2021.\nEl enfoque del proyecto de tratado sobre la regulación de las empresas, en Seminario Empresas y Derechos Humanos,organizado por el Observatorio del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos de la UNAM, el Instituto de Derechos Humanos y Empresas de la Universidad de Monterrey y la Relatoría Especial DESCA de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Mexico, March 2021. \nPromotion and Defense of Judicial Independence in the United Nations Human Rights System, Guatemalan Asociación Guatemalteca de Jueces por la Integridad, co-sponsored by the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, February 2021.\nHuman Rights and Investment Arbitration (panel), Washington Arbitration Week 2020, Washington, D.C. (remote by zoom), December 2020.\nLegal Liability and Enforcement (panel), sponsored by International Commission of Jurists and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, as a side event to the Fifth meeting of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the elaboration of a treaty on business and human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2019.\nConversatorio en empresas y derechos humanos para árbitros y abogados (panel), Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliación de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2019.\nComentarios sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos, Curso Presencial para abogados de empresas, sponsored by the International Bar Association, the Cámara de Servicios Legales of the Asociación Nacional de Emptresas de Colombia (ANDI), and the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, at the ANDI, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2019.\nLa perspectiva jurídica de la debida diligencia corporativa en derechos humanos: experiencias comparadas (panel), en Conferencia sobre La debida diligencia empresarial en Derechos Humanos y la sostenibilidad, organized by the Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia, en la Pontífica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2019.\nEmpresas y Derechos Humanos, en Diplomado de Formación en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos “Héctor Fix Zamudio,” sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2019.\nCorporate Actors and Human Rights (panel), in Balancing Competing Rights: A Conference in Honour of Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex Human Rights Centre, School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, September 2019.\nKeynote Speaker, Inversión y Derechos Humanos: Una Mirada Global desde Colombia, sponsored by Zuleta Beyond Borders, Bogotá Colombia, August 2019.\nColombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, in panel on Victims’ Rights, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice, in Conference on The Colombia Peace Process After Two Years, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Washington, D.C., June 2019.\nKeynote Address, Empresas y Derechos Humanos: Unos Apuntes sobre Donde Estamos, Adonde Vamos, Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Derechos Humanos y Empresas, Universidad del Rosario, co-patrocinada por la Universidad Javeriana y otras universidades y por la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, May 2019.\nCorporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses (panel), 2019 Wolfgang Friedmann Conference, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, April 2019.\nInternational Human Rights Law, the Environment, Major Projects and ISDS, CLE presentation to International Arbitration Practice Group, King \u0026amp; Spalding, New York, New York, February 2019.\nZero Draft: Are We Closer to Solving the Business and Human Rights Crisis?, Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Student Association, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 2018.\nInternational Law, Soft and Hard, and Domestic Tort Law, in Panel on Public International Law and Corporate Accountability, in Conference on Piercing the Corporate Veil: Multinational Corporate Accountability, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, November 2018.\nEmpresas y Derechos Humanos: ¿Dónde Estamos y Adónde Vamos?, Inaugural Address, Institute of Human Rights and Business, University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2018.\nTransitional Justice in Colombia and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in High Level Conference, The Legacy of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni: Criminal Justice and Human Rights, The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Siracusa, Italy, September 2018.\nEmpresas y Derechos Humanos, en Diplomado de Formación en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos “Héctor Fix Zamudio,” sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2018.\nLa Corte Interamericana, La Justicia y La Paz, in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, July 2018.\nLas Obligaciones de los Estados en Materia de Medio Ambiente y Derechos Humanos, [“State Obligations in Matters of Environment and Human Rights”], in Seminar on Environment and Human Rights, Observatory on the Inter-American System of Human Rights, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2018.\nBusiness and Human Rights: Can Business Lawyers Make a Difference?, Tenth Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., February 2018.\nThe European Union and the Prospects for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights, private briefing in Expert Meeting on Business and Human Rights, European Commission, Brussels, January 2018.\nBusiness Accountability for Human Rights Violations, University of Minnesota Law School Faculty Presentation, Minneapolis, November 2017.\nBuilding a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours, Book Launch, Commentator, United Nations Library Geneva, in collaboration with South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human and Rights and International Law of the University of Johannesburg, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\nRoundtable multi-stakeholder discussion on the Elements of a treaty on business and human rights, panelist, sponsored by International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\nA Business Duty of Care to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence (panelist), in OHCHR Consultation: The Relevance of Human Rights Due Diligence to Determinations of Corporate Liability, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2017.\nPrevention, human rights due diligence and disclosure, in program on Elements for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights, co-sponsored by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2017.\nDiscussion on UN Business and Human Rights Treaty, Webinar, United States Council for International Business, with Robert McCorquodale, June 2017.\nAccess to Justice and Redress in Extraterritorial Perspective (panel), in International Seminar, Business and Human Rights: Comparing Experiences, sponsored by Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d’Afers I Relacions, in cooperation with Parlament de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, February 2017.\nThe process towards a treaty on business and human rights: a roundtable multi-stakeholder discussion, panel sponsored by the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2016.\nOptions for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights, panelist on program sponsored by International Organization of Employers, 4th Annual UN World Forum on Business and Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2015.\nAn International Human Rights Perspective on the Mining Industry, in “A Day of Reflection – In Union with God We Hear a Plea,” sponsored by the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace, Rome, July 2015.\nOptions for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2015.\nThe United Nations Negotiations on a Treaty on Business and Human Rights, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights, Meeting in Reston, Virginia, April 2015.\nWhy Big Oil and Human Rights Should Do Business Together, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, California, February 2015. Counsel Cassel is “simply one of the best lawyers I have ever worked with”  Chambers \u0026amp; Partners 2025 Grenville Clark Award for advancing “the cause of peace and human rights.\" University of Notre Dame (2017) Media Legends Lifetime Achievement Award University of Notre Dame (2017) Order of Merit “Guillermo Ferguson,” Colombia’s highest honor for a foreign citizen, for service in peace negotiations. Government of Colombia (2016) for empirical research on human rights adjudication in Mexico Fulbright Research Grant (2016) Legal Legend Award for work in support of constitutional rights. American Constitution Society, Chicago (2013) Elmer Gertz Award, for public service litigation and commentary. Illinois State Bar Association (2008) Bradford O’Neill Medallion for an individual “whose life, work and voice have contributed to the creation of a more...\" Dominican University, Illinois (2005) Leonard Jay Schrager Award of Excellence. Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation (2004) Northwestern University Chapter, Distinguished Member Award. National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2000) Community Peacemaker Award for Law. The Peace Museum, Chicago (1998) Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism for broadcast commentary.  Society of Professional Journalists, Chicago (1997) Citation for Public Service Public Interest Law Initiative, Chicago (1994) Yale University Yale Law School Harvard University Harvard Law School Supreme Court of the United States New York American Bar Association, Center for Human Rights, Business and Human Rights Project Advisory Board and member, Editorial Board, Key Business and Human Rights Documents Council on Foreign Relations (elected member) Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, Executive Committee Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Board member Justice Studies Center of the Americas, nominated by US Government and elected by Organization of American States to Board, 2000-2006, 2013-18; elected President, 2002-04, 2014-2016 American Society of International Law, Executive Council, 2004-2007 Due Process of Law Foundation, President, 2000-2013 Advised CEO’s of several companies on issues of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law relating to humanitarian aid in a war zone in the Middle East. Served as Claimant’s expert witness on rule of law issues in Nicaragua in an international commercial arbitration brought against insurance companies for Claimant’s losses in Nicaragua. Successfully represented a Fortune 150 company in opposing inclusion on the United Nations list of companies materially supporting unlawful settlements in the West Bank. Represented Chevron in rebutting unfounded allegations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories. Represented Venezuelan political opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa pro bono before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in opposition to his prolonged, incommunicado detention by Venezuelan authorities, which was converted to house arrest in February 2026. Advised a Fortune 25 company on heightened human rights due diligence in Conflict Affected and High Risk Areas (“CAHRA”). Advised a Fortune 25 company on human rights risks and standards for green bonds. Advised a Fortune 25 company on human rights risks and standards for carbon credits. Advised a Fortune 50 company on securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (“FPIC”) of indigenous communities near a lithium mine. Represented Chevron before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in regard to the allegedly arbitrary detention of a lawyer disbarred after committing fraud against the company. Advised a Fortune 25 company on the arbitrary detention by a government of an employee of one of its contractors. Successfully represented a Fortune 150 company in opposing inclusion on the United Nations list of companies materially supporting unlawful settlements in the West Bank. Advised a Fortune 50 financial company on a complaint against it filed with a National Contact Point of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises. Advised a major Japanese multinational company on a complaint against it filed with a National Contact Point of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises. Advised a G20 government on its participation in advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Court of Justice. Advised a G20 government on its participation in advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Advised a G20 government on its participation in UN negotiations on a legally binding instrument on business and human rights. Advised a G20 government on its participation in UN negotiations on a legally binding instrument on plastics pollution. Advised a G20 government on its participation in negotiations on the UN Convention against Cybercrime. Advised a G20 governmental agency on guidelines for its companies in matters of business and human rights. Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Juan Holmann Chamorro, the Managing Editor of the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper La Prensa, in proceedings against the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega for false imprisonment and other gross violations of human rights. Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights José Rubén Zamora, the award-winning journalist, editor and founder of El Periodico newspaper, against corrupt judges and prosecutors in Guatemala who falsely convicted, imprisoned and mistreated him. Representing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights the former Attorney General, the former chief anti-corruption prosecutor, the former human rights ombudsman, and ten other former judges and prosecutors who fought corruption in Guatemala, against corrupt prosecutors who persecuted them and forced them to flee the country. Counsel for former United States diplomats and international development practitioners as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court in support of certiorari in Jam v. International Finance Corporation, No. 21-995. Amici include, among others, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Brian Atwood, former head of the United States Agency for International Development; and Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center and former USAID senior official. The amicus brief argues in support of judicial review of IFC enforcement of social and environmental conditions on development loans. Counsel for the owners of Nicavisión, S.A., the corporate owner of the last independent television station with nationwide coverage in Nicaragua, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2021 the Commission granted precautionary measures against government repression. The clients credit the measures with saving the station. Counsel for Judge Erika Aifán, a leading anti-corruption judge in Guatemala, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2021 the State Department awarded Judge Aifán recognition as an “International Woman of Courage.” Corrupt officials have sought for years to remove her from the bench, where she oversees cases against them. The matter remains pending. Counsel for the Reporter and six Advisers to the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, as amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1637 (2020). Amici argued, and the Supreme Court unanimously agreed, that nonsignatories may in exceptional circumstances enforce or be bound by international arbitration agreements under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the Federal Arbitration Act. Advising a Middle Eastern State-owned enterprise concerning potential cross-border human rights issues and claims that could arise from a planned electric power plant. Advising a United States defense contractor on human rights risks with regard to foreign sales of certain military hardware. Advising a global energy company on policy relating to environmental justice. Representing Chevron Corporation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in proceedings relating to the fraudulent environmental litigation against the company in Ecuador (2018 and ongoing). Representing Chevron Corporation with regard to inquiries and reports of United Nations Human Rights rapporteurs relating to the fraudulent environmental litigation against the company in Ecuador (2018 and ongoing). Advising an international oil company on improving its human rights policies, procedures and reporting, as well as its rating by the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (2019). Assisting an international metals company in vetting potential expert witnesses and in eventually selecting an expert on corporate social responsibility, for purposes of a civil litigation concerning a transnational environmental dispute (2019). Advising an international oil company on the human rights implications of a personnel matter raising transnational legal issues (2019). Counsel for Former Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, in Andrade v. Bolivia, Judgment of Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2016) (Bolivia liable for violations of right to property, freedom of movement and right to trial without undue delay). Represented Government of Colombia in negotiations of justice provisions of peace accords with FARC guerrillas (2015). Counsel for leading Venezuelan dissident in Brewer-Carías v. Venezuela, Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2014) (alleging denials of due process and false, politically motivated charges); Communication also addressed to United Nations Human Rights Committee (2016). Counsel for daughter of Cuban dissident in Payá v. Spain, filed in European Court of Human Rights (2014) (challenging refusal of Spain’s National Court to investigate death in Cuba of Oswaldo Payá, prominent Cuban dissident and dual Spanish citizen). Counsel for 23 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S. Ct. 1659 (2013), arguing that suits in U.S. courts for human rights violations abroad should be permitted on a case-by-case basis. Amicus Brief for Chevron in successful opposition to petition before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking enforcement of a fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment against the company (Request MC 48/12, 2012). Counsel for civilian victims of bombing, Case of the Santo Domingo Massacre vs. Colombia, Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2012) (Colombia found liable). Expert witness, presented by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Contreras v. El Salvador (2011) (forced disappearances). Counsel for petitioner National United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, Thailand, before International Criminal Court (2010-2014). Counsel for 26 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Samantar v. Yousuf et al., 130 S. Ct. 2278 (2009), arguing that former foreign government officials should not be granted immunity in U.S. courts for torture and extrajudicial execution. Counsel for 25 Former United States Diplomats as Amici Curiae in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), arguing that prisoners in Guantanamo are entitled to judicial review of their detentions. Counsel for International Humanitarian Law Experts as Amici Curiae in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), arguing that prisoners at Guantanamo are entitled to fair procedures and due process of law. Testimony as expert before Constitutional Court of Indonesia on compliance of Indonesia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Law with international human rights law (2006). Expert witness, presented by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador (2005) (children disappeared during the civil war). Counsel for Amici Curiae Legal and Religious Organizations in Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004), arguing that a U.S. citizen arrested and detained in U.S., and alleged to be “unlawful enemy combatant,” was entitled to be tried or released. Counsel for 28 Career Foreign Service Diplomats in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), arguing that human rights litigation in federal courts under Alien Tort Statute is consistent with United States foreign policy. Counsel for Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, in Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion OC-18, Rights of Undocumented Immigrant Workers (2003). Counsel for Former Venezuelan Foreign Minister in Figueredo v. Venezuela, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2000) (finding violations of due process and rights of defense in political prosecution of Former Foreign Minister of Venezuela). Counsel for amici curiae MacArthur Justice Center and International Human Rights Law Institute before Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Advisory Opinion OC-16, The Right to Information about Consular Assistance within the Framework of Guarantees of Due Process of Law (1999). Counsel for Guatemalan labor leader in Gómez López v. Guatemala, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (1996) (finding violations of right to physical integrity in attempted assassination of Guatemalan labor leader).","searchable_name":"Douglass Cassel","is_active":true,"featured":null,"publish_date":null,"expiration_date":null,"blog_featured":null,"published_by":202,"capability_group_featured":null,"home_page_featured":null},{"id":426318,"version":1,"owner_type":"Person","owner_id":2434,"payload":{"bio":"\u003cp\u003eTom Childs focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He represents clients in U.S. litigation involving the enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, general commercial disputes, and cross-border discovery. He also represents clients in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. His clients include\u0026nbsp;companies from a wide variety of industries, including consumer products, finance, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas, as well as sovereign states.[[--readmore--]]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom has extensive experience in litigation arising under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the ICSID Convention, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Section 1782 (the cross-border discovery statute), and the Hague Convention on Service of Process. He also has represented clients in numerous high-stakes arbitrations seated around the world, under all major arbitration rules.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom is admitted to the New York bar, holds an advanced law degree from the University of Paris I, and regularly handles disputes under both common law and civil law systems. He speaks French fluently and has conversational ability in both German and Arabic.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore joining King \u0026amp; Spalding, Tom practiced litigation with Davis Polk \u0026amp; Wardwell in New York and clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecent Publications\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Drafting Arbitration Clauses for Private Equity Deals in the Power and Infrastructure Sectors,\" forthcoming.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Second Circuit Affirms Broad International Discovery,\" King \u0026amp; Spalding Client Alert, October 2019.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Summary of Report of the New York City Bar on Awards of Interest in International Commercial Arbitration,\"\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eNew York Dispute Resolution Lawyer\u003c/em\u003e, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2018.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;The Current State of International Oil and Gas Arbitration,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eTexas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law\u003c/em\u003e, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2018.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards: Should a Party Be Allowed Multiple Bites at the Apple?,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eAmerican Review of International Arbitration,\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;Vol. 26, No. 2, 2015.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Arbitration of Islamic Finance Disputes,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eIslamic Finance News\u003c/em\u003e, January 2015 (co-author with Sarah Walker).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;I Know I am Going to Win, but What About my Money? Ensuring that Arbitration is Worth the Effort,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2012\u003c/em\u003e, August 2012 (co-author with Tom Sprange).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Update on\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eLex Petrolea\u003c/em\u003e: The continuing development of customary law relating to international oil and gas exploration and production,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Journal of World Energy Law \u0026amp; Business\u003c/em\u003e, Vol 4., No. 3, September 2011.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Challenging a Host State\u0026rsquo;s Tax Measures Through International Arbitration,\u0026rdquo; King \u0026amp; Spalding Energy Newsletter, July 2011.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Crisis in Libya: What Legal Options are Available to Oil and Gas Companies?,\u0026rdquo; King \u0026amp; Spalding Client Alert, May 2011.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia,\u0026rdquo; 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His clients include\u0026nbsp;companies from a wide variety of industries, including consumer products, finance, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas, as well as sovereign states.[[--readmore--]]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom has extensive experience in litigation arising under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the ICSID Convention, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Section 1782 (the cross-border discovery statute), and the Hague Convention on Service of Process. He also has represented clients in numerous high-stakes arbitrations seated around the world, under all major arbitration rules.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom is admitted to the New York bar, holds an advanced law degree from the University of Paris I, and regularly handles disputes under both common law and civil law systems. 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Law of African state applies.{{ FIELD }}Indian pharmaceutical company in an ICC arbitration in New York arising under a licensing agreement. New York law applies.{{ FIELD }}International oil company in several UNCITRAL arbitrations involving claims arising under a production sharing contract. Claims relate to cost recovery, gas pricing and other matters. Indian law applies.{{ FIELD }}U.K. investment management company in an LCIA arbitration in London arising under a services contract. English law applied.{{ FIELD }}Indian automobile manufacturer in an UNCITRAL arbitration in London arising under a distribution agreement. English and U.S. federal law applied.{{ FIELD }}International oil company in an LCIA arbitration in London arising under a drilling contract. English law applied.{{ FIELD }}Investment Treaty Arbitration: U.S. mining company in an UNCITRAL arbitration against the Government of Peru involving claims arising under the U.S.-Peru bilateral investment treaty and a stock purchase agreement. Claims relate to liability for environmental contamination and other matters.{{ FIELD }}International oil company in ICSID arbitration against the Government of Algeria involving claims arising under the Denmark-Algeria bilateral investment treaty. Claims related to a windfall profits tax.{{ FIELD }}Tom Childs focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He represents clients in U.S. litigation involving the enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments, general commercial disputes, and cross-border discovery. He also represents clients in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. His clients include companies from a wide variety of industries, including consumer products, finance, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas, as well as sovereign states.\nTom has extensive experience in litigation arising under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the ICSID Convention, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Section 1782 (the cross-border discovery statute), and the Hague Convention on Service of Process. He also has represented clients in numerous high-stakes arbitrations seated around the world, under all major arbitration rules.\nTom is admitted to the New York bar, holds an advanced law degree from the University of Paris I, and regularly handles disputes under both common law and civil law systems. He speaks French fluently and has conversational ability in both German and Arabic.\nBefore joining King \u0026amp; Spalding, Tom practiced litigation with Davis Polk \u0026amp; Wardwell in New York and clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.\nRecent Publications\n\n\"Drafting Arbitration Clauses for Private Equity Deals in the Power and Infrastructure Sectors,\" forthcoming.\n\"Second Circuit Affirms Broad International Discovery,\" King \u0026amp; Spalding Client Alert, October 2019.\n\"Summary of Report of the New York City Bar on Awards of Interest in International Commercial Arbitration,\" New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2018.\n“The Current State of International Oil and Gas Arbitration,” Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2018.\n“Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards: Should a Party Be Allowed Multiple Bites at the Apple?,” American Review of International Arbitration, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2015.\n“Arbitration of Islamic Finance Disputes,” Islamic Finance News, January 2015 (co-author with Sarah Walker).\n“I Know I am Going to Win, but What About my Money? Ensuring that Arbitration is Worth the Effort,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2012, August 2012 (co-author with Tom Sprange).\n“Update on Lex Petrolea: The continuing development of customary law relating to international oil and gas exploration and production,” The Journal of World Energy Law \u0026amp; Business, Vol 4., No. 3, September 2011.\n“Challenging a Host State’s Tax Measures Through International Arbitration,” King \u0026amp; Spalding Energy Newsletter, July 2011.\n“Crisis in Libya: What Legal Options are Available to Oil and Gas Companies?,” King \u0026amp; Spalding Client Alert, May 2011.\n“Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia,” Article in the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Newsletter, September 2010.\n“A New Destination for Disputes,” Interview with the CEO of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution in King \u0026amp; Spalding’s Middle East Quarterly Bulletin, Winter 2010.\n“The Requirement of Fair and Equal Treatment with Respect to Document Production in International Arbitration,” Paper for the International Bar Association’s 12th International Arbitration Day Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 2009 (co-author with Doak Bishop).\n\nSpeaking Engagements\n\n\"Interest Awards in International Arbitration,\" CIArb New York Branch, September 2019.\n\"Personal Jurisdiction Over Third Parties After Daimler,\" Young ITA, New York, September 2018.\n“The Growing Incidence of Parallel Arbitration \u0026amp; Its Res Judicata Effects,” Penn State International Arbitration Day, New York, April 2015.\n“Investment Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific,” AFIA Symposium, Washington, February 2015.\n“Issue Estoppel in Post-Award Proceedings in the U.S. and England,” CPR Arbitration Committee, New York, October 2014.\n“Evolution of International Energy and Minerals Arbitration,” RMMLF Conference on International Energy and Minerals Arbitration, Toronto, September 2013.\n “The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard,” IBDE/LAD Global Economic Forum: Best Practices in Trade and Investment Promotion, London, April 2013.\n“Islamic Finance: Would arbitration of disputes help or hinder the industry’s growth?,” London Arbitration Club (Financial Sector Branch), London, March 2013.\n“Arbitrating competition issues,” Competition Law Summit, New Delhi, July 2012.\n“Lex Petrolea,” ICC/AIPN Conference on Dispute Resolution in the International Oil \u0026amp; Gas Business, Paris, October 2011.\n“International Oil \u0026amp; Gas Dispute Resolution: Recent Changes in the Middle East’s Legal Landscape,” AIPN International Conference 2010 in Doha, Qatar, September 2010.\n\nAssociations\n\nMember, NYC Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee\nMember, ICC Task Force on Financial Institutions and International Arbitration\nMember, CPR Arbitration Committee\n Counsel \"Thomas Childs is a very detail-oriented lawyer who ensures that every point gets desired client attention.\" Legal 500 AP, 2020 Yale University Yale Law School University of Paris I, Paris, France  Columbia University Columbia University School of Law U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York New York England and Wales Law Clerk, Chief Judge Edward R. 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