'Beyond State-Centric Approaches: Corporate Actors in the Rule of Law Landscape'
Dr Olena Uvarova, Postdoc Research Coordinator at Wageningen University, Law Group
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Please note this is a hybrid event.
About the event
This presentation introduces a novel approach to conceptualizing and assessing corporate actors' impact on the rule of law across different societies. Moving beyond traditional state-centric perspectives, Dr. Uvarova will present the methodology for the Corporate Actors and the Rule of Law Index, developed from a reimagined approach derived from the World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index.
The presentation will cover key factors included in the Index:
- Preventing corporate capture and corporate contribution to structural inequality
- Corporate integrity and transparency
- Meaningful stakeholder engagement
- Order and security
- Impact on the regulatory sphere
- Corporate accountability for human rights abuses
- Access to grievance mechanisms
About the speaker
Dr Uvarova has focused on business and human rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia since 2017. She heads the International Laboratory of Business and Human Rights (established 2018), which developed the National Baseline Assessment on Business and Human Rights in Ukraine and contributed to the revised National Human Rights Strategy. The Lab serves as Ukraine's focal point for the Centre of Excellence on Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights at Wageningen University's Law Group.
Dr Uvarova brings over 20 years of human rights experience, both in academia and as a practitioner through consultancy work with organizations including UN Women in Ukraine, the Council of Europe, OSCE, USAID, UNDP, and UNICEF.