Caroline Lichuma joined the CHREN as a Postdoctoral Researcher on 1st November 2024.

Her current research critically analyzes regulatory developments in Business and Human Rights, with a particular focus on how mandatory human rights due diligence laws such as the German Lieferkettengesetz (LkSG) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) impact Global South stakeholders.

She received her PhD in International Human Rights Law (Summa cum laude) from the Georg-August University of Göttingen in Germany, where she was a DAAD scholar. Her doctoral research was a comparative constitutional analysis of the judicial enforcement of Economic and Social Rights in Kenya, South Africa, and Germany. She received her LLM in Public International from the New York University where she was a Dean Graduate Merit scholar, and her LLB from the University of Nairobi.

Caroline’s research has been published in the Business and Human Rights Journal, the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, the Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, among others.

Caroline has teaching experience from the Strathmore University and Riara University, both in Nairobi, Kenya, and research experience from the University of Luxembourg where she worked prior to joining CHREN.