Day 2 Program

Thursday 15 December 2016
09:00-09:45
Chair:
Professor Junhai LIU
Session 6: Professor Gill North
Professorial Research Fellow, Deakin Law School, Deakin University (Australia):
‘Well governed, sustainable and socially responsible financial corporations: Remote or real expectations?’
09:45-10:30:

Chair:

Session 7: Dr. Andreas Rühmkorf 
Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Sheffield (UK)
‘From transparency to due diligence? Regulating CSR in global supply chains in the ‘home state’ of multinational enterprises’
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea / Coffee
11:00-11:45:
Chair:
Dr. Jeroen Veldman
Session 8: Dr. Alexander Scheuch
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Münster (Germany)
‘Soft law requirements with hard law effects? – The influence of CSR guidelines on substantive corporate law from a German perspective’
11:45-12:15
Chair:
Professor Sandeep Gopalan
Open Discussion on Sessions 6-8:

12:15-13:00
Chair:
Professor Patrick Leyens
Session 9:  Professor Sandeep Gopalan
Dean and Head of School, Deakin Law School, Deakin University (Australia)
CSR and Law: A Comparative Analysis of US and Indian Case Law
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45
Chair:
Dr. Alexander Scheuch
Session 10: Associate Professor Umakanth Varottil
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore:
‘Analysing the CSR Spending Requirements Under Indian Company Law’
14:45-15:30
Chair:
Professor Junhai LIU
Session 11:Professor Afra Afsharipour
Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at University of California, Davis School of Law, UC Davis School of Law, California (USA)
‘Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporate Board: Assessing the Indian Experiment’
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea / Coffee
16:00-16:30:

Chair:
Professor Patrick Leyens

Open Discussion on Sessions 9-11:

16:30-16:45 Day 2 Summary, Perspectives and Closing Remarks: Professor Junhai LIU & Professor Jean du Plessis