Interdisciplinary Studies in Law:
Globalization, Justice and Law
Business Ethics and Corporate Stakeholder Relations

When Professor Mendes took over the Directorship of HRREC in 1993, he began to develop an intense program of activities, scholarship and Round Tables dealing with the area of Business Ethics, Stakeholder relations and the general areas of corporate social responsibility and trade, investment and social justice.

His philosophy in this area is the thesis that University Centres such as HRREC can be the bridging mechanism between the corporate community and the public sector/civil society in this very complex and sensitive area.

This philosophy has proved extremely successful for the Centre. The Centre has hosted some of the most sucesssful and largest gatherings in Canada of corporations, government officials and representatives of civil society focused on business ethics.