Lara Blecher

Bio:

Lara Blecher is a PhD candidate at UCL Laws. Her PhD research explores privatised state responsibilities in the context of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Lara's particular interests relate to the impact of privatised public governance and law-making on human rights. Lara has also consulted in business and human rights over the last 25 years. She has recently focused on facilitating corporate engagement with affected rights-holders. Some of these rights-holders have expressed a desire to leapfrog traditional democratic mechanisms to access holders of global capital. These rights-holders believe that financial actors can, and should, use their financial clout to affect rights-holders' ability to realise their human and environmental rights.

Representative publications: 

Blecher, L. 'Codes of Conduct: The Trojan Horse of International Human Rights Law?' Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 38, May 2017, pp. 437-476

Blecher, L., et al. (eds.), Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Impacts: New Expectations and Paradigms, American Bar Association, 2014

Blecher, L. ‘Above and Beyond the Law’ Business and Society Review, December 2004, Vol. 109, pp. 479-492