Join us for a presentation delivered by Miss Vuyelwa Kuuya, a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a Research Associate of the First Africa Group (now part of the Standard Chartered Bank Group). The aim of this presentation is to analyse the legal consequences of corporate complicity in human rights violations from the point of view of international human rights law and domestic civil law (with a focus on legislation from the United States). In doing so, it seeks to answer two questions that are often confused in the business/human rights debate: firstly, whether corporations should be held liable for complicity in human rights violations; and secondly, whether they can be held liable for such conduct. The presentation also analyses the role that Corporate Social Responsibility programs and other initiatives are playing in regulating the relationship between human rights and corporations.