On 14 September 2010, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary‐General for Business and Human Rights (SRSG), Professor John Ruggie, convened an expert meeting to explore the role and limits of extraterritoriality in the business and human rights domain, especially vis‐à‐vis countries in which multinational corporations are domiciled. This note summarizes the discussion’s main themes...The role that States should play to ensure that companies domiciled in their territories and/or jurisdictions do not commit or contribute to human rights abuses abroad is a complex and sensitive issue. However, as the SRSG has explained, in other policy domains extraterritoriality is not simply the binary matter that it is often depicted as...Four overarching themes emerged in the meeting: (a) that extraterritoriality indeed comprises a broad array of measures; (b) the importance of understanding various stakeholders’ concerns when it comes to this complex subject; (c) the relevance of so‐called “reasonableness” factors in shaping States’ preferences in this area; and (d) the necessity to address the worst types of business‐related human rights abuses, which otherwise would go without remedy of any kind.