Radu Mares has Doctor of Law (2006) and Associate Professor (Reader/Docent) (2012) degrees from the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, and is senior researcher at Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights, specialised in the area of business and human rights. His preferred approach is to deliberately keep in the picture both governmental and private actors, and both law and corporate voluntarism, so their interaction can be studied, synergies can be captured, and their effectiveness be enhanced. His work focuses on ways to strengthen the protection of human rights and good governance in the Global South. Mares has written on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in the context of the UN Guiding Principles, on the relation between law and self-regulation, on CSR in the mining industry and supply chain contexts.

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