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'ESG Risk is a Core Concern for Financial Services Regulation' (pdf, 425KB) by David Kinley and Kym Sheehan (April 2022)

Submission in response to the Australian Law Reform Commission's Background Paper FSL5 on risk and reform in Australian financial services law.
Community Expectations: Putting People Before Profit Means Taking Human Rights Seriously (2018) by Kym Sheehan and David Kinley
Necessary Evil: How the Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights, (2018) by David Kinley, OUP
The Monster under the Bed: Financial Services and the Ruggie Framework, by Mary Dowell-Jones and David Kinley, in Radu Mares (ed) The UN Guiding Principles on Corporations and Human Rights: Foundations and Implementation (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) , 193-216
Banks and Human Rights: a South African Experiment, by David Kinley & Bonita Meyersfeld , 22 (2015) Sur International Journal on Human Rights
“The Trinity and the Dragon: Reconciling Finance, Human Rights and the Environment in China” (2012) 3(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 116-40, by David Kinley & Fiona Cunningham
Minding the Gap: Global Finance and Human Rights (2011) 25(2) Ethics and International Affairs, 183-210, by Mary-Dowell Jones and David Kinley

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UniSuperCIO’s tin ear on Westpac scandal by David Kinley, Australian Financial Review (Letter to Editor), 4 Dec 2019
20 years behind’: human rights advocates slam Westpac, Australian Financial Review, David Kinley quoted extensively, 21 Nov 2109
ASX’s Backward Step on Corporate Conduct, by Kym Sheehan and David Kinley, Australian Financial Review (Letter to Editor), 12 March 2019
From Wall Street to Main Street and No Street, Money Talks. Can we make it listen? Human Rights might be the answer?, Open Democracy, 14 Dec 2018
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#BankingRC misconduct: not a victimless crime, Independent Australia, 10 Dec 2018
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La finance, ce ‘mal nécessaire', Le Temps, 23 Nov 2018
The Global Financial Crisis Changed Everything, and Nothing, ABC Analysis/Opinion, 21 Sept 2018
Wealth and Education have made Ireland a Better Place, The Irish Times, 9 July 2018
Can growing appetite for social bonds really turn finance to the good side?, Ethical Corporation Magazine, 28 June 2018
Australia’s Banks Dodged the Financial Crisis, Then they got Complacent, ExecReview, 8 June 2018
Does Banking attract cheats or make them?, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age/Canberra Times, 9 May 2018
Finance struggles to find a social conscience, Open Democracy, 15 April 2018
How banks can win our trust back (and it’s not through good deeds), ABC online, 24 Aug 2017
The entitlement delusion, Open Democracy, 17 Oct 2014

Is finance getting woke on human rights?, Afternoons with James Valentine, ABC Radio, May 2021
Dr Kym Sheehan is “hopeful, but not optimistic” about change in banking culture, The World Today (Eleanor Hall), ABC Radio, 1 July 2019
Banking Royal Commission Report released today, AM (Peter Ryan), ABC Radio, 4 Feb 2019
Will international finance protect human rights / responsibility of individual, state and institutions, The Scholars’ Circle interview, 16 Sept 2018
OUP video clips on finance and human rights and Necessary Evil (1-2 mins @), Aug 2018:
How to fix finance by reinforcing human rights, Chatham House author interview, 11 July 2018
Banks and Human Rights, London Launch of Necessary Evil – roundtable discussion hosted by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and Herbert Smith Freehills, 9 July 2018
Banking and Human Rights (interview), The World Today (Eleanor Hall), ABC Radio, 3 July 2018
Focus (interview), with Cassie McCullagh, ABC Radio 702, 10 May 2018
Afternoons with James Valentine (interview),ABC Radio 702, 9 May 2018
Want to Work for Improved Human Rights? Consider Banking. Really (interview), Open House, Radio FM103.2, 29 April 2018
Necessary Evil: how to fix finance by saving human rights, with David Kinley, Carnegie Council, interview with Devin Stewart, 23 Feb 2018
How Much Do Banks Owe Us?, TEDx (10 mins), 17 Nov 2017

Human Rights Network: Investing In Change, Finance Sector Union, Webinar, Sep 2021
Interview with David Kinley, ACEMAXX – ANALYTICS, blog interview, 1 Aug 2018
The Long Shadow of Financial Exceptionalism, OUP(Australia) Blog, 6 June 2018
How our financial system has gotten out of control, OUP(US) Blog, 27 March 2018
Artful Dodgers: banks and their human rights responsibilities, Rightingfinance blog, 1 March 2017

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