Team

Please find an overview of our team here.

Project Coordinators

Project Coordinators

Stephanie Regalia

Stephanie Regalia studied English law and French law at King’s College London and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne for her bachelor’s degree. She completed a dual master’s degree in Energy & Environment at Sciences Po and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where she was the project manager of the 2017-2018 Business & Human Rights Clinic. Prior to joining the International Doctorate Programme: Business and Human Rights at FAU, Stephanie worked in the human rights non-profit sector and trained as a lawyer in France. The focus of her doctoral research is effectiveness in mandatory human rights due diligence frameworks.

Stephanie’s projects at the Human Rights and Business Clinic:

1. Coordinator of the project “THE GERMAN SUPPLY CHAIN ACT (LKSG) AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTS OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY”. April 2023-August 2023

2. Coordinator of the project: “Just Transition Litigation Tracker” with the Business and Human Rights Litigation Tracker (ongoing)

Bruna Singh

Bruna Singh has a bachelor’s degree in law from the University Centre Curitiba (Brazil, 2015), and a master’s degree in human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow (the UK, 2018), where she attended as a Chevening scholar. She has professional and academic experience in migration, the inter-American human rights system, women’s rights, and business & human rights. Before joining the International Doctorate Program- Business and Human Rights: Governance Challenges in a Complex World, Bruna worked for a Business & Human Rights and ESG consultancy in Brazil, with projects involving mining and agricultural companies. Currently, she is a doctoral researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and her research focuses on „leverage“ in the business and human rights framework.

Bruna’s project at the Human Rights and Business Clinic:

1. Coordinator of the project “THE GERMAN SUPPLY CHAIN ACT (LKSG) AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTS OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY”. April 2023-August 2023

2. Coordinator of the project: “Just Transition Litigation Tracker” with the Business and Human Rights Litigation Tracker (ongoing)

 Otgontuya Davaanyam

Otgontuya Davaanyam is a lawyer from Mongolia. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Liverpool and an MA in Global Challenges: Law and Policy from Swansea University in the United Kingdom. She also holds an LLB Degree from the Shihihutug University in Mongolia. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies at the Friedrich Alexander Erlangen-Nuremberg University and her PhD focuses on corporate human rights responsibility under the OECD NCP case law analysis. Otgontuya is a former member of the Mongolian Bar Association and she previously worked as an Attorney for Anderson and Anderson LLP, an international law firm in Mongolia and as a Human Rights Consultant for UNDP Mongolia, Business and Human Rights Project (the Project for developing the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights in cooperation with Mongolian Government).

She has extensive internship experience in different human rights organisations, including Fifty Eight, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and the Business and Human Rights Unit of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Otgontuya’s project at the Human Rights and Business Clinic:

Coordinator of the project “Complaint to the OECD National Contact Point”

 Eklavya Vasudev

Eklavya studied political science and later law from the University of Delhi. He then read for his LLM at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC, USA enabled through the Georgetown Law Merit scholarship.
His LLM was focused on International Environment and Health Law. Eklavya has over 7 years of work experience in India and the USA. In the US, Eklavya worked as a Graduate research associate at the O’Neill Institute for Global Health Law and was a law clerk at the American Bar Association. In India, Eklavya worked for Lawyers Collective, a social enterprise law firm on issues of sexual harassment at the workplace and domestic violence. He then clerked with Justice S. Muralidhar at the High Court of Delhi where his work comprised of working on criminal law and the death penalty. Eklavya has also worked as counsel in the chambers of former Solicitor General of India, Gopal Subramanium. His last professional engagement before joining FAU was with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements where he worked as a Senior associate-legal on issues of Urban Law. Eklavya is the co-founder of Neev foundation, a public charitable trust which provides free legal aid to the lesser privileged in the Delhi-NCR area in India. For the past year, he has been in Prof. Anuscheh Farahat’s team at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg for his doctorate in law through a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Eklavya’s research interests are in the are of Constitutional law and climate litigation. His proposed doctoral thesis is on the same lines.Eklavya’s project at the Human Rights and Business Clinic: Coordinator of the project “Complaint to the OECD National Contact Point” 

HRB CLINIC BOARD (Ph.D. Candidates)

HRB CLINIC BOARD (Ph.D. Candidates) 

BRUNA SINGH     

  • Human rights due diligence norms, Extractive and agricultural industries, Supply chain, Indigenous and tribal Peoples’ Rights, Latin America
  • bruna.singh@fau.de
SABRINA RAU

  • human rights law, Operationalisation of UNGPs, Access to remedy, Grievance mechanisms, Digital/emerging technologies, and Data protection.
  • sabrina.rau@fau.de
STEPHANIE REGALIA 

  • Mandatory human rights due diligence laws, Just Transition, Natural resources, European regulatory developments
  • stephanie.regalia@fau.de
SHUVRA DEY 

  • Corporate human rights due diligence, indigenous rights, franchise relationships, ESG regulations, South Asia.
  • shuvra.dey@fau.de
Nelson Otieno