Claire Methven O´Brien

Senior Researcher, Research
BA Hons (Cantab.), Dip.Law., LLM (Public Law), M.Res. Law, Ph.D. Law, Barrister (Middle Temple)
Experts Research
+45 50 99 32 92
cob@humanrights.dk
https://twitter.com/claire_ob1
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Publications

2022

O'Brien, C.M., 'Business and human rights and regional systems of human rights protection: applying a governance lens' in Marx, A, Wouters, J. & Van Calster, G., Research Handbook on Global Governance and Business and Human Rights, : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 44-74 (Non-peer-reviewed).
O'Brien, C.M. , 'Business and human rights in Europe 2011-2021: A decade in review' in Czech, P., Heschl, L., Lukas, K., Nowak, M. & Oberleitner, G., European Yearbook of Human Rights 2021, : , 2022 (Peer-reviewed).
O'Brien, C.M. & Ford, J., 'Business and Human Rights: From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back Again' in Lagoutte, S., Lorion, S. & Jensen, S.L.B., The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights, : , 2022 (Peer-reviewed).
O'Brien, C.M. & Botta, G., 'The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: An Updated Status Review (2022)' in João Luiz da Silva Almeida, Responsabilidade Social Corporativa e Governança Socioambiental: Greenwashing e Direitos Humanos, : , 2022, 1-42 (Peer-reviewed).
Deva, S & O'Brien, C.M., 'A Defining Moment for the UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Process', Völkerrechtsblog, , 2022 (Non-peer-reviewed).
O'Brien, C.M., 'A Defining Moment for the UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Process', Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional, , 2022, 1-6 (Peer-reviewed).
O'Brien, C.M., 'Bounded Rationality, Metonymy, Humility: Further Arguments for a Framework-Style Business and Human Rights Treaty', Völkerrechtsblog, 4 p. 2022.
O'Brien, C.M., 'Council of Europe Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme, Course on Business and Human Rights 2020-2021: Module 2: The State Duty to Protect Human Rights', , 2022.
O'Brien, C.M. & Martin-Ortega, O, Commission proposal on corporate sustainability due diligence: analysis from a human rights perspective, , 2022 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2021

O'Brien, C.M., Ferguson, J. & McVey, M., 'National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights: an Experimentalist Governance Analysis', Human Rights Review, , 2021 (Peer-reviewed).
Holly, G. & O'Brien, C.M., 'Briefing on Civil Liability for Due Diligence Failures', Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2021.
O'Brien, C.M., 'Claire Methven O’Brien, “LBI 3rd DRAFT bridging edits to Framework Convention” 25 September 2021', , 2021.
O'Brien, C.M., 'Claire Methven O’Brien, Submission to United Nations Open-Ended Inter-governmental Working Group on Business and Human Rights: Draft text for framework convention on business and human rights (2021)', , 2021.
Claire Methven O’Brien, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Benn Finlay Hogan, Tech Giants and Human Rights: Investor Expectations, Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2021 (Non-peer-reviewed).

2020

Methven O'Brien, C., Ford, J., Langford, M. et al., Business and human rights: A textbook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (Peer-reviewed) (forthcoming).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Martin-Ortega, O., 'Human rights and public procurement of goods and services' in Deva, S., Birchall, D., Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020, pp. 245-268 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., 'Confronting the constraints of the medium: The Fifth Session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on a Business and Human Rights Treaty', Business and Human Rights Journal, 5(1), 2020, 150-55 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., 'Transcending the Binary: Linking Hard and Soft Law Through a UNGPS-Based Framework Convention', American Journal of International Law Unbound, 114, 2020, pp. 186-191 (Peer-reviewed).
Martin-Ortega, O., & Methven O'Brien, C., 'Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: options of monitoring, enforcing and remedy under the future EU legislation', EJIL Talk! , 1 September 2020.
Methven O'Brien, C., 'The 2020 Draft UN Business and Human Rights Treaty–Steady Progress Towards Historic Failure', The 2nd Revised Draft of a Treaty on Business and Human Rights , 11 September 2020.

2019

Methven O'Brien, C., Business and Human Rights. A Handbook for legal Practitioners, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2019 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Martin-Ortega, O., & Methven O'Brien, C., Public procurement and human rights: Opportunities, risks and dilemmas for the state as buyer, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., 'Experimentalist Global Governance and the Case for a Framework Convention based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business on Human Rights' in Mullen, M., Navigating a New Era of Business and Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities under the UNGPs, Nakhon Pathom: Article 30, 2019, forthcoming (Peer-reviewed) (forthcoming).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Martin-Ortega, O., 'Public Procurement' in Deva, S., Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019, forthcoming (Peer-reviewed) (forthcoming).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Martin-Ortega, O., 'Public procurement and human rights: Discretion, divergence, paradox' in Bogojevic, S., Groussot, X., Hettne, J., Discretion in EU Procurement Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, forthcoming (Peer-reviewed).
Martin-Ortega, O., & Methven O'Brien, C., 'Public Procurement and Human Rights: Interrogating the Role of the State as Buyer' in Cheltenham, Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer, : Edward Elgar, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Martin-Ortega, O., 'Public Procurement and Human Rights: towards Legal and Policy Coherence in Pursuit of Sustainable Market Economies' in Cheltenham, Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer , : Edward Elgar, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Martin-Ortega, O, 'Public Procurement and the Erosion of the EU Social Model: Outline of a Polanyian Perspective and the Emerging Regulatory Role of Human Rights?' in Thomson/Reuters, International Markets Regulation and the Erosion of the European Political and Social Model, : Elsevier, 2019 (Peer-reviewed).
O'Flaherty, M., & Methven O'Brien, C., 'Reform of the UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies: A Critique of the Concept Paper on the High Commissioner's Proposal for a Unified Standing Treaty Body' in Pocar, F., International Human Rights Institutions and Enforcement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019, Chapter 27 (Peer-reviewed).
Methven O'Brien, C., & Ford, J., 'Business and Human Rights: From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back Again', Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 37(3), 2019, 216-233 (Peer-reviewed).

Key competencies

Human rights law, human rights and business, National Human Rights Institutions, human rights and development

 

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