Business and human rights: the Lafarge case

The Lafarge case represents a valid example of the multifaceted relationship between human rights and business misconduct. This case provides valuable insights from a criminal law standpoint, specifically in examining the connection between human rights and business misconduct, the appropriate legal framework to be adopted, either civil/administrative or criminal, and, crucially, the level at which it should be implemented, whether global, international, regional, or domestic.

Professor Enrico BASILE will share about his research on the topic of business and human rights and the Lafarge case in dialogue with Astrid MIGNON COLOMBET, who will describe the significance and potential outcomes of this case in the French judicial system and legal/cultural framework. Valentina LANA will introduce and moderate the debate.

This event is organised in the framework of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences. The CIVICA alliance brings together ten leading European higher education institutions in the social sciences. The alliance's mission is to create an inter-university campus for collaborative teaching, research, and innovative learning, while fostering academic excellence and global civic engagement. CIVICA was selected by the European Commission as one of the pilot European Universities in 2019 and confirmed as a successful alliance in 2022 for its full roll-out under the Erasmus+ programme. Sciences Po and Bocconi University are members of CIVICA.

• Enrico BASILE, assistant professor of criminal law and white-collar Crime at Bocconi university, attorney
• Valentina LANA, compliance senior manager, lecturer at Sciences Po, attorney, Marshall Memorial Fellow
• Astrid MIGNON COLOMBET, attorney (Partner at August Debouzy), white-collar crime specialist, lecturer at Sciences Po