The role and regulation of responsible business in society.
Is there an unstoppable meta-trend towards greater corporate responsibility and accountability for human rights impacts?
In my Masters course on 'Business and Human Rights' (BHR, currently afoot), I offer students a timeline of BHR. This begins with colonisation (where private listed companies sometimes led) up to the current Geneva UN negotiation towards a BHR treaty. I ask them, among other things, the question above.