Lecturer in Law Marcia Narine Weldon recently gave a keynote speech at Building The Future 2023 conference in Portugal, where she spoke about “Tech and Human Rights: The Price and the Cost of Doing the ‘Right’ Thing.”
In addition to teaching Transactional Skills and Business and Human Rights, Weldon is also director of the Transactional Skills Program, and Faculty Coordinator of the Business Compliance & Sustainability Concentration, and Transactional Law Concentration. Her teaching and research interests include corporate governance, employment law, regulatory compliance, corporate social responsibility, and the intersection of business and human rights. She has taught civil procedure, business associations, professional responsibility, employment law, business and human rights, corporate governance, compliance, and social responsibility, and legal issues for startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses at other institutions.
Prior to joining Miami Law, she spent several years in-house as the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, as well as the Vice President, Global Compliance and Business Standards, and Chief Privacy Officer of Ryder. In 2012, the Secretary of Labor appointed her to the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, and she served on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust from 2014-2017.
