Danish Institute for Human Rights

Claire Methven O’Brien

Strategic adviser to companies on achieving human rights compliance across their activities and on engaging with risks and dilemmas beyond their immediate operational sphere.
Development of new human rights tools and methodologies to address emerging issues within business sectors

Human Rights Adviser at the Human Rights & Business Department, Danish Institute for Human Rights
Associate Researcher, RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe), ARENA Oslo / European University Institute, Florence
Researcher, Law Department, European University Institute, Florence
Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics
Researcher, Human Rights Act Research Project, London School of Economics

PhD on transnational governance on human rights in the corporate sector (Law Department, European University Institute, Florence, submitted May 2009)
LLM, Public Law, London School of Economics
Diploma in Law CPE, City University London
BA Hons Queens’ College, Cambridge University

Reframing Deliberative Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives on Transnationalisation and Post-national Democracy from Labor Law, 9 German Law Journal 8 (2008), 1007.
Entrenching social citizenship: the case for social and economic rights, (2008) Renewal 16 (1), 45-57.
Reform of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies: A Critique of the Concept Paper on the High Commissioner's Proposal for a Unified Standing Treaty Body, (with M. O'Flaherty), (2007) 7 Human Rights Law Review 141.