Claire Bright

Claire Bright

Associate Professor, Director and Founder of the Centre

Claire Bright is Associate Professor in Private Law as well as the Founder and Director of the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment at NOVA Law School in Lisbon. She specialises in Sustainable Corporate Governance, Private International 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, an LL.M in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from La Sorbonne Law School and a Double Bachelor’s degree in French and English Laws from UPEC.

Before joining the faculty at NOVA School of Law, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford, an Associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and as a Lecturer at the London School of Business and Management. She was also a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence.

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. Her work to date has resulted in numerous publications of peer-reviewed scientific publications in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, including in the following journals: the “International and Comparative Law Quarterly”, “Business and Politics”, “Sustainability”, the “Business and Human Rights Journal”, the “European Yearbook on Human Rights”, “Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht”, “Droit Social”, the “Revista Española de Derecho Internacional” and the “Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado”. She has also contributed to various expert studies and policy reports for NGOs, Governments, as well as European and International organizations including: