Key Concepts covered:

• The UN Guiding Principles’ three pillars:

     o Pillar I: State duty to protect
     o Pillar II: Business responsibility to respect
     o Pillar III: Access to remedy.

• States’ obligations and businesses’ responsibilities
• Human rights due diligence
• Leverage
• Value chain.

• From Responsibility to Accountability: How Business and Human Rights is a Movement for Corporate Accountability
• Moving from Soft to Hard Law in CSR and Business and Human Rights: Human Rights Due Diligence
• Lawyers’ Role and Responsibilities in Connection with the UNGPs
• Access to Remedies for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses: Private International Law Issues
• The practical implications of the UNGPs for lawyers from the US, European and other countries