Lisa J. Laplante is a professor of law at New England Law | Boston where she also directs the Center for International Law and Policy (CILP). Professor Laplante first started working on business and human rights (BHR) in 1999 while a Furman Fellow with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). In 2012-2013 she became the interim director of the University of Connecticut’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center where she spearheaded programming on business and human rights. Upon joining New England Law in 2012, she began teaching business and human rights while also overseeing the development and implementation BHR programming through her role as director of CILP. In 2016, she launched the Operational-Level Grievance Mechanism Research Project, one of the world’s only comprehensive databases on company mechanisms for resolving human rights grievances. As an internationally recognized expert on remedies and human rights, she is often invited to present in international forums including those convened by academia, governments, and the United Nations. She has penned over fifty academic works, and her prize-winning scholarship appears in edited volumes and top-ranked journals. In 2023, the Harvard International Law Journal published her article “The Wild West of Company-level Grievance Mechanisms: Drawing Normative Borders to Patrol the Privatization of Human Rights Remedies”. Early recognition of her scholarship led to the invitation to become a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton in 2008. Professor Laplante earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar.