Barnali Choudhury is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Prior to joining Osgoode, she was a Professor at University College London and academic director of UCL’s Global Governance Institute.
She is an internationally recognized expert on business and international economic issues, particularly as they relate to issues of human rights. She has published numerous books, including The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2023); Corporate Duties to the Public (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Understanding the Company: Corporate Governance and Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Public Services and International Trade Liberalization: Human Rights and Gender Implications (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Business Law Journal, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, as well as in numerous other journals and in book chapters. It has also been featured in the Oxford Business Law Blog, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog and the American Society of International Law Insight, among others. She has written op-eds for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and iPolitics and her work has been featured on the CBC and in Bloomberg Businessweek. She has held numerous research grants including grants from the Leverhulme Trust and SSHRC.
She is regularly invited to give talks and has presented her work throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and at the United Nations. She has visited at New York University, University of Cambridge, National University of Singapore, University of St. Gallen, University of Otago, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private Law. In addition to numerous academic citations, her work has been cited by the United Nations, the UK’s House of Commons, the House of Lords EU Select Committee, international arbitral tribunals and relied on by governments and international non-governmental organizations.
In addition, she is an Advisory Member for the Academic Circle Supporting the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, on the board of directors for Ecojustice Canada, a principal co-investigator for the Canada Climate Law Initiative, a co-director of Osgoode Professional Development’s LLM in International Business Law, an Editorial Board Member of the Business and Human Rights Journal and is appointed to the pool of candidates for the EU’s Trade and Sustainable Development Panel.
For her latest research visit her SSRN page.
Research Interests: Corporate Law, Business & Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, International Investment Law, Corporate Governance, International Trade Law, International Arbitration
Graduate Research Supervision (LLM, PhD): I am interested in supervising topics related to corporate law and international economic law, particularly if the proposal has a human rights, environmental, or other social focus