Joe W. "Chip" Pitts III
Lecturer in Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Chip Pitts, Big Data, Privacy, and Corporate Responsibility and Accountability, Choose Privacy Week (American Library Association) (May 2013).
Chip Pitts, Corporate Criminal Liability, in Encylopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Chip Pitts, The International Law and Policy regarding the Use of Force, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect, in Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (UNESCO/Doshisha, 2013).
Chip Pitts, UN Global Compact Good Practice Notes (Dec. 19, 2012) (Editor).
Chip Pitts, 9/11 Cost you your Civil Rights, JD Supra.com and Lawyers.com (Sept. 11, 2012).
Interview of Chip Pitts, Contemporary Relevance of CSR for India and Beyond, CSR Today (July 3, 2012).
Chip Pitts, et al, Supplemental Brief of Amici Curiae International Law Scholars in Support of Petitioners (Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, U.S. Supreme Court No. 10-1491) (Jun. 13, 2012).
Chip Pitts, Making the Difference: Fairtrade International, InfoMag Interview, No. 132 (May 2012).
Chip Pitts,The Greening of Consumer Products: Legal, Regulatory, and Strategic Considerations (Feb. 7, 2012) (with L. Bergeson, et al), BNA Article Adapted from ABA Environmental Law Section Fall Meeting Paper (Oct. 2011), and also reprinted by BNA and picked up by various legal networks as Practical Advice for Product Steward Professionals on Remaining Competent, Socially Aware, and Scientifically Proficient (Feb. 27, 2012).
Chip Pitts, Authentic Leadership: The Lawyer’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and Human Rights, Lawyers for Better Business (Oct. 5, 2011).
Chip Pitts, Corporate Governance Action Memo, 9(32) BNA Corporate Accountability Report, (Aug. 12, 2011) (describing recent developments in law and good practice).
Chip Pitts, Ethical Philanthropy, in Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011).
Chip Pitts, Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, in Thomas Hale and David Held, Eds., Handbook of Transnational Governance (Polity Press, 2011).
Chip Pitts, Exaggerated Rumours of the Death of an Alien Tort: Corporations, Human Rights and the Peculiar Case of Kiobel, 12 Melbourne Journal of International Law 1 (Spring 2011) (with D. Kinley and O. Murray).
Interview of Chip Pitts by William Fisher, Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?, Truthout (April 7, 2010).
Chip Pitts, CSR: A Legal Analysis, in Corporate Social Responsibility Review (Conference Board of Canada, Spring 2010)(with M. Kerr and R. Janda).
Joe W. (Chip) Pitts III, Corporate Social Responsibility: Current Status and Future Evolution, 6(2) Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy 334 (Spring 2009).
Chip Pitts, Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis (Lexis Nexis, 2009)(Co-Author and Editor).
Joe W. Pitts III, Business, Human Rights, and The Environment: The Role of the Lawyer in CSR and Ethical Globalization, 26(2) Berkeley Journal of International Law 479 (2008).
Chip Pitts, Human Rights Corporate Accountability Guide: From Law to Norms to Values (Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights and Harvard Kennedy School, 2008) (with J. Sherman).