Profile
Paige Morrow

Paige Morrow

Research Associate, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
Spoken languages
English, French, Spanish, Dutch
Areas of expertise
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Business and human rights
  • Digital Single Market (privacy and data protection, data economy, social platforms)
  • Democratic governance

Paige Morrow is Research Associate at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and Senior Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression. She also holds a position as Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19, a civil society organisation focusing on freedom of expression issues in the media and online.

She was previously a Lecturer in Corporate Governance at the University of Kent Brussels School of International Studies, and Executive Director of the EU Public Interest Clinic, a joint initiative of the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC) and New York University. She has held a number of roles relating to human rights, responsible business, and litigation. She consults on legal and policy issues relating to sustainable business, responsible investment and global value chains.

Paige holds a master's of law in international law from the London School of Economics, where she studied as a Chevening Scholar, as well as a juris doctor (JD) from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor's of arts in international development studies from McGill University. She was called to the bar in Canada.

 

Selected publications:


• “From Human Rights Due Diligence to Duty of Vigilance: Taking the French example to the EU level”, with T. Beau de Loménie and S. Cossart in Business and Human Rights in Europe: International Law Challenges, ed. Angelica Bonfanti (2018, Routledge)
• “Fiduciary Duties of European Institutional Investors: Legal Analysis & Policy Recommendations” (2016), with Johnston, A. University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016-04.
• “Commentary on the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance”, with Andrew Johnston. University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2015-09.