Business and human rights
Corporations have significant power and influence over our living environment. They can both contribute to and prevent the realisation of human rights, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a circular and climate-neutral economy. National, EU and international legal frameworks seek to maintain economic growth while regulating corporate activities in the face of global political contestation and technological innovations.
Topics
Within our research theme, we specifically focus on these key areas:
- Business and human rights
- Labour law (safety and health of workers)
- Competition law
- Public procurement law
- Trade and investment law
- Environmental and climate justice
- Privacy and data rights
- Consumer law
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Research themes
Environment
We focus on the regulatory challenges of managing the wide range of the public and private actors and actions that shape our social and natural environments
Food systems
Law plays a crucial role in achieving food system policy goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Business and human rights
Legal frameworks seek to maintain economic growth while regulating corporate activities in the face of global political contestation and technological innovations.
Human rights and public health
Our research is driven by using human rights as a lens to explore how the language, ideas, and principles of human rights can inform the transformation towards a more just and more sustainable world.