On 28 May 2016, the IBA Council, the organisation’s governing body, voted unanimously to adopt the IBA Practical Guide on Business and Human Rights for Business Lawyers... The Practical Guide responds to growing recognition that the management of risks, including legal risks, means that lawyers need to take human rights into account in their advice and services...While developing the IBA Practical Guide the IBA Business and Human Rights Working Group andtheIBA Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) consulted numerous IBA committees, bar associations, law societies, individual lawyers, civil society organisations, academics and corporations...