Claire Bright is an Associate Professor in Private Law at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon as well as the Founder and Director of the Nova Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment (NOVA BHRE). She regularly organizes courses, events and trainings in the fields of Business and Human Rights, ESG, Human Rights Due Diligence as well as Environmental and Climate Change Due Diligence. She has published widely in the field (in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) and has contributed to various expert studies and policy reports for Governments, NGOs, as well as for the European institutions (European Commission and European Parliament), and international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), which include, inter alia:

• A 2019 study for the European Parliament on Access to legal remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuses in third countries which was notably referred to in the paper of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on Business-related human rights abuse reported in the EU and available remedies, as well as in the Draft Report of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs with recommendations to the European Commission on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability (2020/2129(INL)).

• A 2020 study for the European Commission on due diligence requirements through the supply chains which forms the basis of the current  Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive of 13 June 2024. The study was welcomed by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights which observed that ‘it provides a solid and much needed foundation for enhanced policy and regulatory action to address business-related human rights impacts across sectors and global value chains.’

• A 2020 study for the 11.11.11 and the Working Group on Corporate Accountability on the Options for Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence in Belgium which formed the basis of a legislative proposal on mandatory human rights due diligence in Belgium and is now working in collaboration with the University of KU Leuven to help the Belgium Government in the transposition of the CSDDD.

• A 2021 mapping (in English and in French) of the Human Rights due diligence regulations and an evaluation of their contribution in upholding labour standards in global supply chains prepared as part of a research compendium for the International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of 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

• A 2021 study on trade policy and child labour prepared for the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament entitled ’50 Billion Euros: Europe’s Child Labor Footprint in 2019′.

•  2022 Study on Responsible Business Conduct in Mozambique: a context assessment of human rights risks for the United Nationals Development Programme, as part of the project on promoting human rights due diligence in global supply chains and leveraging the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for a just recovery’.

• A 2023 study with recommendations to the Portuguese Government for the development of its First National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.

• A 2023 preliminary report complemented by awareness-raising activitiesthroughout 2023 and 2024 to inform the Tunisian Government in the development its first National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.

• A 2024 report onThe impacts of the French Duty of Vigilance Law on Internal Corporate Practices for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, March 2024.