https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/LEGS5299?type=CORECorporate actors wield enormous power in our contemporary world. As producers, advertisers, sellers, and transporters of goods and services, businesses have important impacts -both positive and negative- on the lives of those who work for them, buy from and sell to them, house them, and live nearby them. They also leave their footprints at global scale, e.g., in respect of global climate, plant and animal health, and global inequalities along geographic, income, gender, and racial lines. Despite (or perhaps because of) their influence, businesses sometimes escape effective regulatory control. Human rights regimes have traditionally focused on the actions of states, positioning government as both the primary threat to human rights and as the actor responsible for protecting individuals from violations. In the last few decades, however, lawyers and activists have worked to extend the reach of international and regional human rights law into the private sphere, recognizing rights and responsibilities for businesses independent of their state of operation or headquarter. This course explores the relationship between business and human rights law from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It will focus on the linkages between human rights and corporate activities and the attempts that have been made to extend human rights obligations to business, both at the national and international level.