The course content addresses the following topics:
- Corporate accountability for human rights violations
- Globalisation, the marketplace, and human rights: the harm
- Voluntarism: market-based regimes of corporate responsibility
- An overview of business and human rights in international law
- Critique of the status quo and movement towards a binding treaty
- Positive versus negative duties of corporations
- Financial institutions and human rights
- Natural resource exploitation and human rights
- Gender and business and human rights
- South Africa and domestic regimes governing corporate human rights obligations, and extra territorial obligations
- Corporate criminal accountability
- Companies and the business of warfare