Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Social Responsibility are concepts which businesses – no matter their size or purpose – must value and adhere to. This course gives students the tools to identify, analyse and evaluate the main legal rules, principles, models and dimensions of Corporate Responsibility and issues relating to ethical business, corporate and business law, corporate governance, sustainability and human rights. Not only will students understand Corporate Responsibility, they’ll be able to develop suitable responses and create action plans to tackle complex issues around this. Graduates will be suited to a broad range of corporate, legal, business and environmental protection roles across national and transnational non-profit and public organisations.

Essex Law School has an international reputation for teaching law that matters. The University specialise in commercial law, public law and human rights law and the research is valued across the globe. Many of the academics also hold positions advising and working with the UN, the UK government and with EU and foreign governments.