...the beautiful Swiss town of St Gallen provided the backdrop to the inaugural Business and Human Rights Young Researchers’ Summit, hosted by the Institute for Business Ethics at University of St. Gallen, the Business and Human Rights Center at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the Business and Human Rights Journal. The Summit participants, comprised of a dozen PhD and early post-doctoral researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds, were guided by Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Research Director of the Business and Human Rights Center at NYU and Professor Florian Wettstein of the University of St Gallen. The workshop format provided an opportunity for participants to share their research projects and to explore the major issues and challenges presented by the business and human rights field in a collegiate and scholarly way. The participants’ geographical diversity - representing South America, North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia - greatly enriched the discussion. Workshop participants presented a broad body of work ranging from specific issues raised by particular industries, to broader questions of law and policy. The longstanding issue of how to regulate global supply chains was discussed from a range of perspectives, including the role of multi-stakeholder initiatives, the limitations of social auditing, the interpretation and application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the potential application of tort law to corporate human rights impacts...