Dr Martin-Ortega gets appointed

Dr Olga Martin-Ortega has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium(LUPC) and joined the Board in her first meeting this September.

Two articles were published this June.

The article 'Buying power and human rights in the supply chain: legal options for socially responsible public procurement of electronic good' (Olga Martin Ortega, Opi Outhwaite and William Rook) was published in the International Journal of Human Rights while Dr Opi Outhwaite's article titled 'Environmental Offences: Finally Making the Polluter Pay?' was published in the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law e-journal.

Available here: 
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2015.1029295#.VjOXjiXtlBc, 
http://www.iucnael.org/en/e-journal/current-issue)

BHRE members presents paper at European Society of International Law Biannual Conference

Members of the BHRE Research Group presented a paper at the European Society of International Law Biannual Conference. The team presented the paper: Martin-Ortega, O. and Outhwaite, O. and Rook, W., Business, Human Rights and Public Procurement: Legal options for the procurement of responsibly manufactured electronics, at the 3rd Research Workshop of the Interest Group on Business and Human Rights of the European Society of International Law (Vienna, 4- 6 September 2014).