This course considers the historical origins of the modern corporation, how corporate prosecutions developed, and the various types of corporate crime. It examines the cost and extent of corporate crime, and theories of how and why it happens. The course covers some common law and UK legislative responses to particular types of crime – such as corporate manslaughter - and the theories and practice of corporate punishment. The course also explores the advent of the theory and practice of ‘corporate social responsibility’, how businesses are expected to conduct their operations internationally with responsibility and accountability to their stakeholders and to wider society. It examines how this expectation is framed in terms of human rights obligations. Students with an interest in corporate behaviour, crime, law and ethics will find this course useful. Students must have taken courses in at least one of the following areas, at CUHK or otherinstitutions, prior to enrolling for this course: Human Rights Law (including LAWS3370), PRC Legal System (including LAWS2030 (or LAWS 1030 taken in 2008-09 or before)), Constitutional Law (including LAWS2100), Criminal Law (including LAWS2121 or LAWS2122).