Corporate Responsibility (5cr)

Objective

Aim of the course is to attain in-depth knowledge of corporate responsibility both from public and private governance approach.

Content

The course presents the current development of national legislation(s), EU regulation and international soft law of corporate social and environmental responsibility. Special attention is paid to the interplay of private and public governance, formal and informal rules, especially on the forest, mining and oil sectors as well as renewable energy. Examples of governance alternatives in the Arctic are taken from the Nordic countries, Alaska and Russia and analyzed with a special emphasis on the situation of indigenous peoples.

Qualifications

BA

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-5

Materials

Nysten-Haarala, S. – Joona, T. and Hovila, I. (2021) Wind Energy Projects and Reindeer Herders’ Rights in Finnish Lapland – A Legal Framework. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 9:1.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00037, Berman, M., Loeffler, R and Schmidt J.I. Long term Benefits to Indigenous communities of extractive industry partnerships: Evaluationg the Red Dog mine Resources Policy 66 (2020) 101609 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/resourpol

Tysiachnyouk, M. ; Petrov A. 2018. Benefit sharing in the Arctic energy sector: Perspectives on corporate policies and practices in Northern Russia and Alaska Energy Research & Social Science 39 . - p. 29 – 34. Tysiachniouk, M., Henry, L., Lamers, M & Tatenhove, J. van. 2017 Oil Extraction and Benefit Sharing in an Illiberal Context: The Nenets and Komi-Izhemtsi Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic, Society & Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1403666, Tysiachniouk, M.S. ; McDermott, C.L. 2016. Forest Certification with Russian characteristics Forest Policy and Economics 62 . - p. 43 - 53. Laura A. Henry, L. Nysten-Haarala, S. Tulaeva S & Tysiachniouk M. 2016. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism, Europe-Asia Studies, 68:8, 1340-1368, Nystén-Haarala, Soili – Klyuchnikova, Elena – Helenius, Heidi: Law and self-regulation – Substitutes and complements in gaining social acceptance? 45 Resources Policy 2015, s. 52–64. Pappila, Minna: The interplay of Russian law, indigenous people and the oil industry – a need for non-state regulation? The Yearbook of Polar Law, vol. 6, 2015, p. 120-141.

Additional readings based on the agreed topics for the seminar. e.g. Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press 2012 (online) printed publication 1990 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808678.

Further information

The course is arranged as an integrated course with Legal English with one joint workshop giving 1 extra credit in Legal English.

Execution methods

Lectures (8 hours including a guest lecture), materials for reading in advance in Moodle, joint integrated workshop 4 hours with the course Legal English (OENG0710V24) and a seminar 4 hours with topics chosen during the lectures. A learning diary.