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Thursday, 25 June 2026
Courts, Politics, and Sustainability Standards
09:00-09:30 Welcome & Introduction by Jens Steffek and Julia Drubel
09:30–11:00 Keynote Lecture by Professor Tim Bartley: Rethinking Voluntary and Mandatory Standards: Due Diligence and Supply Chain Regulation in a De-regulatory Moment
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Michael Schedelik (Presenter): Geopolitics of Green Finance: Diverging Pathways in Sustainability Reporting Standards (with Sylvain Maechler)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
- Andreas Corcaci: Judicial Governance in Turbulent Times
- Tabea Heppner & Svea Knebel: Minimum Standards in Contexts of Structural Injustice: Responsibility, Human Rights, and Legal Struggles
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Lena Gigerl: The Green Deal’s ‘Flagship Project’ as a ‘Symbol of Red Tape’: On the Politicisation of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
19:00 Workshop Dinner (Informal)
Friday, 26 June 2026
Local Implementation of Global Standards
09:00–11:00
- Imge Akaslan: Human Rights Due Diligence and Norm Translators
- Aarti Gupta (Presenter): Rule Taker or Rule Maker? How South Africa engages with Global Climate Transparency Standards (with Max van Deursen)
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Verena Lasso-Mena: Governing Resource Extraction, Producing Violence: Unpacking Attacks on Environmental Defenders in Colombia
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30
- Andrea Heigl: Contestation of Sustainability Standards in EU Free-Trade Agreements
- Julia Drubel: The Contestation of EU Sustainability Standards in Ontario’s Forest Sector
15:30 End of the Workshop.
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Residenzschloss Darmstadt
S3|12, Rooms 11 and 12 (connected; please use either entrance)