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Claes Cronstedt (born 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an international lawyer and member of the Swedish Bar. He is one of the pioneers on Business and Human Rights. == Biography == Claes Cronstedt is a former International Partner of Baker & McKenzie Law Firm. He was the head of the Corporate Practice Group in the Stockholm office and the leader of M&A transactions. He founded the Stockholm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practice Group. Cronstedt and served as arbitrator as well as counsel in international arbitrations and involved in international Human Rights litigation, in particular, the Raoul Wallenberg Case against USSR. 2001–2014 Cronstedt was a member of the working-group of experts of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe CCBE which is i.a publishing guidelines (position papers) for EU's 1.000.000 lawyers on how to advise in Corporate Social Responsibility (http://www.ccbe.eu/index.php?id=94&id_comite=54&L=0for). He was the co-founder and member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Amnesty International Business Group and since 2003 member of the Geneva International Committee of Human Rights Watch. From 2001 until 2004 he was a member of the Swedish Committee of the ICC Commission on Business in Society, engaged in drafting a Guidebook on Responsible Business Conduct. He was a trustee 1999–2006 of International Alert, London, committed to the peaceful transformation of violent conflict. 2006–2009 he was a member of the International Commission of Jurists ´ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes. As from 2009 he is a member of Gaemo Group International, a think-tank on corporate responsibility. Claes Cronstedt was the founder and chairman 1999–2004 of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy for Young Leaders (raoulwallenberg.se) and the chairman 2003–2015 of The Non-Violence Project , combating youth violence. He was a member of the board of the Stockholm Bar Association 1993–1998, member of the board of the Swedish Federation of Service Industries 1992–1998 and Chairman of the Swedish Marine Industries Federation, SWEBOAT 1986–1995. During 1992–1998 Claes Cronstedt was the Vice Commodore and Honorary Secretary of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club. Claes Cronstedt is a frequent speaker and writer since mid nineties on the subject of Business and Human Rights. In 2013 he initiated a project to create the first ever International Arbitration Tribunal on Business and Human Rights. The strategy is to look beyond existing national court systems and regulatory mechanisms that have largely failed to provide accountability for business related human rights abuses worldwide – http://www.l4bb.org/pages/advert.php?advertiser=tort_tribunal. Cronstedt was the keynote speaker about an International Arbitration Tribunal on Business and Human Rights at United Nations Annual Forum in Geneva, December 2014, http://business-humanrights.org/en/binding-treaty/proposals-for-intl-tribunal-on-corporate-liability-for-human-rights-abuses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claes Cronstedt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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