On March 9, 2023 West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin delivered a lecture at the University of the West Indies, MonaLaw in Mona, Jamaica. Professor Martin's lecture was titled "Human Rights Law and Business: Corporate Criminality in the Caribbean? How to Detect Human Rights Abuses." The lecture was delivered to an in-person audience and streamed live via zoom.
Find more of Professor Martin's scholarship on SSRN and her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.
The scholarship of West Virginia University College of Law faculty members is frequently cited as authority in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited and made available on Westlaw Precision between October 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022
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West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin will publish a chapter in a forthcoming volume from Edward Elgar Publishing, The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Professor Martin authored "Guiding Principle 8: Ensuring Policy Coherence". The book is available for pre-order now and will be available in March 2023.
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West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin recently authored a blog post for International Social Service USA as part of their Cultural Identity Campaign. The blog post, "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly", discusses Professor Martin's research on intercountry adoption and her published article "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – A New Way of Looking at the Intercountry Adoption Debate". The article was originally published in 2007 by the U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy.
Find more of Professor Martin's scholarship on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.
West Virginia College of Law professor Jena Martin recently spoke at the United Nations 10th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. The Forum was held virtually, November 29 to December 1, 2021. Professor Martin spoke in a session titled "Confronting racism: using the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to support transformative action". Her remarks centered on a joint project with Tara Van Ho of the University of Essex and Erika George of the University of Utah. A recording of the session is now available: https://media.un.org/asset/k1w/k1w4gj52rf
The project culminated in a publication: Reckoning: A Dialogue About Racism, Antiracists, and Business & Human Rights . The paper was published in Vol. 30 of The Washington International Law Journal.
