Adding Human Rights Punch to the New Lex Mercatoria: The Impact of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Commercial Legal Practice

In July 2015, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, otherwise known as FIFA, announced that as a prominent part of its new reforms, it will "recognise the provisions of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘GPs’) and will make it compulsory for both contractual partners and those within the supply chain to comply with these provisions".