Law Firms Reflect on Human Rights in Practice

Like other businesses, law firms are subject to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.  In November 2016, several London-based firms met to share ideas about how to implement these guidelines in the practice of law.  The report of the workshop is available here.  Legal ethics professors take note:  while this material is rarely covered in ethics textbooks, it goes to the heart of the questions concerning lawyers’ roles.