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President’s Advisory Committee on Trademarks & Licensing

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ACTL

Consistent with our institutional goal of ensuring the humane and ethical treatment of workers, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has acted to uphold workers’ rights in factories that manufacture products bearing the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s name and logo.

Along with other U.S. colleges and universities, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ markets its trademarks through CLC, Learfield’s licensing division. CLC is responsible for ensuring that companies that sign contracts to manufacture products bearing Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s trademarks (“licenseesâ€�) abide by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Licensee . This Code provides standards for working conditions, health and safety, the environment, collective bargaining, and human rights.

In 2001, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ established the President’s Advisory Committee on Trademarks & Licensing (ACTL) to lead the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ on these issues. ACTL is charged with ensuring that licensees uphold high ethical standards that respect workers’ rights. ACTL reviews and evaluates Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ licensees’ corporate responsibility and performance, suggests effective ways to work with those businesses, and recommends appropriate remedial action when violations of the Code of Conduct are identified. ACTL also monitors the work of CLC as well as the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s two member organizations—the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) and the Fair Labor Association (FLA)—to support and collaborate with them and benefit from their efforts to improve working conditions in the global production of goods for the marketplace and hold manufacturers accountable to international standards.

ACTL meets at once a quarter, and its membership includes four faculty, four students, four staff, and two administrators. The committee is chaired by Anita Ramasastry, Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law.