On the 21st of March, in the SPEED Lunch Seminar we welcomed Professor Errol Mendes who presented on the topic ‘Moving From Promoting Soft Law Regarding Business and Human Rights in the UN to an Advocate to Hard Law in the Canadian Court’, followed by a discussion from the panel composed of Gianluca Parolin, Anaïs Tobalagba and Claire Bright and Helena Pereira de Melo as the moderator.