Lisa 

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Lisa is the Helsby-Kroll Post-doctoral Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. Lisa teaches Regulations at postgraduate level at the Oxford Faculty of Law. As Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Lisa also teaches undergraduate Contract Law. She obtained her DPhil at the University of Oxford and LLM from the University of California, Berkeley. Lisa’s research interests include critically examining Business and Human Rights scholarship including initiatives calling for mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence (‘mHRDD’). Lisa’s doctoral research concerns the intersection of corporate and commercial law measures that require large businesses to report on steps taken to address social and environmental issues in supply chains.

In 2020, Lisa led a joint research project with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law funded by the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities Fund and the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence on the effectiveness of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, including a comparison of corporate enforcement mechanisms. Lisa recently provided advice to the Business and Human Rights Unit of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on regulatory initiatives relating to the technology sector. Before academia, Lisa was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London specialising in commercial dispute resolution and corporate investigations. She is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor in New Zealand, and a Solicitor with Higher Rights in England and Wales.

Research interests:

• Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
• Business and Human Rights
• Emerging technologies
• Private and commercial law remedies
• Regulation theory
• Socio-legal studies
• Empirical research methods

Publications:

[2022] ‘Putting private sector responsibility in the mix: A Business and Human Rights approach to Artificial Intelligence’ in Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Oxford University Press.

[2021] ‘Accountability, Monitoring and the Effectiveness of Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act: Evidence and Comparative Analysis’ London: Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre

[2021] ‘Deconstructing Modern Slavery Statements: A Detailed Analysis of Arcadia Group and Babcock International’ SSRN Electronic Journal

[2020] ‘Modern slavery in law: towards continuums of exploitation’ 26 Australian Journal of Human Rights, 165.

[2019] ‘Five ways to work out if a company is serious about tackling modern slavery’ The Conversation

[2019] ‘Updates on the Modern Slavery Act 2015: government showing signs of long-awaited leadership’ Oxford Human Rights Hub Oxford Human Rights Hub