Lisa Ko-En Hsin

Lisa is the Helsby-Kroll Post-doctoral Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College and a tutor in Contract Law. Lisa’s post-doctoral work critically examines Business and Human Rights scholarship including initiatives calling for mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence (‘mHRDD’), which has been touted as the new solution to exploitation in supply chains.

In 2020, Lisa led a joint research project with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Strategic Priorities Fund and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities Fund. As Research Fellow for the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre (MSPEC), Lisa advised on various aspects of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, including s 54, which requires large businesses to report on steps taken to address modern slavery to disclose information in support of ‘transparency’ in supply chains.

Lisa joined the University of Oxford in 2017 to undertake research into the influence and effect of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Fernanda Pirie. In her research, she considered how corporations have responded to transparency measures outlined by the Act. She is a member of the Business and Human Rights team at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and winner of the Busuttil Domus Prize in 2018.

Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, Lisa was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London specialising in commercial dispute resolution and corporate investigations. She is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor in New Zealand, and a Solicitor with Higher Rights in England and Wales. 

Lisa holds a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley as a recipient of the Spencer Mason Scholarship, and a conjoint Bachelor of Arts and Law (Honours), from the University of Auckland