Claire Bright is Associate Professor of Private Law and Founder/Director of the NOVA Business, Human Rights and the Environment Knowledge Center at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. She is also a Research Associate at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She is a specialist in Sustainable Corporate Governance, International Private Law, International Commercial Law, Comparative Private Law and Business and Human Rights. She holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute in Florence, a Master in Private International Law and International Trade Law from La Sorbonne Law School and a degree in French and English Law from the University Paris-Est.
Prior to joining the faculty at NOVA School of Law, she was a Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Program, an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and a Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Management. She was also a fellow of the Max Weber Program at the European University Institute in Florence.
She regularly organizes training events and workshops in the areas of Sustainable Corporate Governance, Business and Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, and Climate Change. His work to date has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, notably in the following publications: “International and Comparative Law Quarterly”, “Business and Politics”, “Sustainability”, “Business and Human Rights Journal”, “European Yearbook on Human Rights”, “Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht”, “Droit Social”, “Revista Española de Derecho Internacional” and “Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado”. He has also contributed to several specialized studies and policy reports for NGOs, Governments, as well as European and international organizations, including:
- 2019 study for the European Parliament: “Access to legal remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuses in third countries“.
- 2020 study for the European Commission: “Study on due diligence requirements through the supply chains“.
- 2020 Study for the 11.11.11 and Working Group on Corporate Accountability: Options for Mandatory Human Rights due diligence in Belgium – Available here
- A 2021 survey (in English and French) of human rights vis-à-vis due diligence regulations and an assessment of their contribution to maintaining labor standards in global supply chains, prepared as part of a research compendium for the International Labor Organization (ILO) with support from the Government of France and published in G. Delautre, E. Echeverría Manrique and C. Fenwick, “Decent work in globalised economy: Lessons from public and private initiatives”, ILO 2021, 75-108
- Legal Summary 2021 (in Portuguese and English), “Due Diligence in Human Rights and Environmental Matters” for the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF)
- 2021 Study on Trade Policy and Child Labor entitled “50 Billions Euros: Europe’s Child Labor Footprint in 2019,” for the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, June 10, 2021. – Available here