It is a pleasure to welcome  Dr Caroline Omari Lichuma on Rights as Usual (Caroline.lichuma@uni.lu; @Carollichuma on Twitter).  Caroline is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg . She received her LLB from the University of Nairobi, her LLM from New York University and her PhD from the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Her current research is in Continue reading

I am very pleased to host two blog pieces which reflect on the 10 years which have passed since Rana Plaza as well as offering thoughts as to the way forward. The first one, by Rubana Huq was posted here. The second one, by Claire Methven O’Brien and Amy Weatherburn focus on the remedy gap in Continue reading

I am very pleased to host two blog pieces which reflect on the 10 years which have passed since Rana Plaza as well as offering thoughts as to the way forward.  The first is by Rubana Huq. Rubana is a Bangladeshi businesswoman, university academic and poet. She is the current Vice-chancellor of Asian University for Continue reading

I am very pleased to host Danny Bradlow’s exposition of his Dove Principles.  Danny has used his vast experience to design these principles.  This blog piece was commissioned and edited by Sandhya Drew and Felogene Anumo for the Blog of the Business and Human Rights Journal but an IT blip on the CUP website is Continue reading

It is a pleasure to welcome back Dr René Wolfsteller and Dr Yingru Li on Rights as Usual. René is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg where he analyzes the governance of business and human rights, sustainability, and climate change. Yingru is a Lecturer in Accounting at the Adam Smith Business School, University Continue reading

It is a pleasure to welcome Moisés Montiel Mogollón and Salvador Herencia-Carrasco to Rights as Usual. Moisés Montiel Mogollón (@MoisesMontielM) is an adjunct professor of International Law at Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Panamericana in Mexico and Managing Partner at Lotus Soluciones Legales. Salvador Herencia-Carrasco (@Sherencia77) is the Director of the Human Rights Clinic, HRREC and part-time professor at Continue reading

  It is a pleasure to welcome (back) Salvador Herencia-Carrasco and Kelsea Gillespie to Rights as Usual. Salvador Herencia-Carrasco (@Sherencia77) is the Director of the Human Rights Clinic, HRREC and part-time professor at the Section de Droit Civil at the University of Ottawa. Kelsea Gillespie (gill006@uottawa.ca) is a J.D. candidate at the Faculty of Common Law, and research assistant Continue reading

Prof. John Ruggie has passed. Those in the business and human rights world who knew him well have already published beautiful tributes. Mine will be less about the man and more about his work. I only briefly met him in person in 2013 when he came to London for a book signing event. After that Continue reading

It is a pleasure to welcome Danielle Anne Pamplona (@DaniAPamplona) to Rights as Usual. She is a Professor of Law and Head of the Human Rights Clinic at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Brazil. She is also the Vice President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, and Vice Director of Continue reading

It is a pleasure welcome back Dr Daniela Heerdt (@DanielaHeerdt) to Rights as Usual. Dr Heerdt recently defended her PhD on responsibilities for human rights abuses at mega-sporting events. She has a background in public international law and human rights law. Next to being a researcher and teacher at Tilburg University, she works as independent consultant Continue reading