PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNG
by Benjamin K. Leisinger (Editor), Marc Probst (Editor)
"Human Security & Business" aims at giving an insight into the current debate about business and human rights and conflicts. It illustrates known as well as newly developed aspects of this debate by giving insights into the demands on business from different perspectives, by pointing out how business reacts to these demands and by showing some newer issues raised in the domain of business and human rights and conflicts as well as instruments in order to integrate the demands on business into daily business operations. The book is written for a wide range of interested business people as well as for other readers who have not dealt with such questions; it gives an overview over current demands, reactions and challenges. Readers, who are already working in this domain, will be able to pick up some recently developed trends.
Author Biography
Benjamin K. Leisinger was born in Nairobi, Kenya. After finishing school in Germany, he studied law at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He graduated in December 2003 and started working as an academic assistant to Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer. In 2005, he made an internship at the Secretariat of the ICC's International Court of Arbitration in Paris. In December 2006, he received his doctorate at the University of Basel. Since October 2006, he works as a law clerk at Homburger Rechtsanwälte in Zurich. He was coordinator of the symposium \\\\\\\"Human Rights Values and International Business Transactions\\\\\\\" (January 2007, Basel).
