Luca Tenreira is a PhD researcher in the Department of Law at the European University Institute (EUI). His dissertation, “The Troubled Dreams of Due Diligence in Entangled Global Value Chains,” critically examines how regulators and corporations mobilize specific knowledge regimes to assess the environmental and social impacts of products, services, and activities. As regulatory paradigms increasingly adopt impact-based tools to incentivize accountability in global value chains, Luca’s research investigates the epistemic challenges of framing environmental and social problems through particular indicators, metrics, and processes—highlighting their role in including or excluding certain narratives and stakeholders. By examining material practices and activist interventions, his ethnographic study will highlight the normative consequences of such regulation and advocate for rethinking governance approaches to incorporate care, decolonial perspectives, and a commitment to place-based justice in shaping GVCs.

Luca has been visiting researcher of the BHRE center from June to August 2023, and had the opportunity of working alongside Claire Bright on several research and policy outputs :

• Preliminary report for the implementation of a National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights in Tunisia, with Pr. Claire Bright – Tunis, Business and Human rights Academy, United Nations
• Identifying and comparing impacts of mHREDD legal models on internal corporate practice – in charge of France with Claire Bright – Dir. Dr Irene Pietropaoli – BIICL (British Institute for International and Comparative Laws)

Contact : luca.tenreira@eui.eu