Biography
Chip Pitts has taught courses on ethical globalization, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, and international business and human rights at Stanford Law School, Oxford University, and elsewhere. Formerly an adjunct then full-time professor at Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas, he has also been a partner at the global law firm Baker & McKenzie, then Chief Legal Officer of Nokia, Inc., and an investor, founding executive, and consultant to various start-up businesses in Austin, Texas and Silicon Valley.
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- Chip Pitts, Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, in Handbook of Transnational Governance, Thomas Hale & David Held, editors, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011.
- Interview: “Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?,” Truthout (April 7, 2010).
- “CSR: A Legal Analysis,” in Corporate Social Responsibility Review (Conference Board of Canada, Spring 2010)(w/ Kerr & Janda).
- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis (Lexis Nexis, 2009)(Co-Author & Editor).
- “Corporate Social Responsibility: Current Status and Future Evolution,” 6:2 Rutgers J. Law & Pol’y (2009).
- Business, Human Rights, & The Environment: The Role of the Lawyer in CSR & Ethical Globalization 26:2 Berkeley J. Int'l Law 479 (2008).
- “Democratization, Globalization, and Social Change: An Evolving Human Rights Agenda in the Americas” in Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? (2008) (with Jorge Daniel Taillant) (Routledge 2008).
- Human Rights Corporate Accountability Guide: From Law to Norms to Values (BLIHR & Harvard, 2008).
- Joe W. Pitts, Under Surveillance: The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don't Count on It, The Washington Spectator, March 15, 2007.
- “Human Rights Violations Fuel Anti-Americanism,” in Islamophobia & Anti-Americanism (Amana 2007).
- chip.pitts@att.net