Exploring Private and Public Regulation for Sustainability: The Business & Human Rights Agenda and Green Public Procurement

The research group is hosting the lunch seminar Exploring Private and Public Regulation for Sustainability: The Business & Human Rights Agenda and Green Public Procurement which will take place in the Auditorium of JUS II from 12.15 till 14.00. Light lunch, coffee and tea will be served during the seminar.

It will also be possible to join the event online through this link, for those of you who cannot attend physically: Join Zoom meeting.

During the seminar, we will have the great pleasure to host Dr Nadia Bernaz from the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and PhD Candidate Federica Muscaritoli from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), who will provide regulatory perspectives from respectively the Business & Human Rights and the Green Public Procurement discourses.

The seminar is part of the WickedWaters seminar series and funded by the Research council of Norway under the project 341973.

Speaker Profiles

Nadia Bernaz is Associate Professor in the LAW group at Wageningen University (WUR, the Netherlands). She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University (London, UK), and before that a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland). She holds a PhD in international law from Aix-Marseille University (France).

Nadia leads the Business, Human Rights and the Environment research line at the WUR Law Group. Her research focuses on business accountability, exploring ways in which businesses could be held accountable for their human rights and environmental impacts through national, international and transnational processes. During the seminar, Nadia will present the International Implications of the Proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a landmark initiative in the Business and Human Rights field. The Directive will mandate human rights and environmental due diligence for certain larger companies within and outside the EU. 

Federica Muscaritoli is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen. Prior to joining the PhD Program, she received her BA degree in Political Sciences and International Relations from the University of Rome' La Sapienza'  and LLM in European Legal Studies from the University of Turin.

Her PhD project focuses on the role of public procurement to fight climate change. During her presentation entitled Public Procurement as a Tool for Climate Change Mitigation – An Analysis of the EU Legal Framework, Federica will introduce a new perspective on the internal market and EU public procurement law goals, as well as an innovative perspective on EU (environmental) constitutional law (Article 3 TEU, 7/11/191/192… TFEU) and their implications, if any, for public procurement.