🧵 Sometimes I wonder why we have such a hard time making headway in #bizhumanrights. Then, I examine the BHR teams at prominent corporate law firms, looking for people to invite to an event, & am reminded that there are very few human rights or BHR specialists on these teams.
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There are *several* large law firm 'BHR teams' with not a single listed person I could put on a panel on BHR. They just don't have the qualifications, expertise, or noted experience needed for these discussions.
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It's like they think that because they understand other areas of law, they can just 'pick up' human rights. Or that IHRL is some malleable non-entity devoid of real rules and governed by instinct. It's not.
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IHRL, and subsequent #bizhumanrigths, a complex legal field with rules, obligations of conduct & outcome, limitations, balances, derogations, all of which in turn have sub-rules, limitations, and exceptions.
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The hubris that it takes to have a #bizhumanrights team at a major firm without a single IHRL specialist--& the inefficiency that causes in the development of the field--might be why I find myself banging my head against a proverbial wall ~40 times a year. Just mindblowing.

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