Sarah Vandenbroucke is a PhD candidate within the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School, and part of the Empirical Legal Studies Lab of Leiden University. She started her PhD in 2020, entitled: Navigating corporate responsibility in global supply chains using codes of conduct

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Sarah Vandenbroucke, born in Lille (France), holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Lille 2, an LL.M. in European Law from Leiden Law School (2017), and a joint Master’s in Labor Law and Organisation and Labour Studies from the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole and the Graduate School of Social Sciences of Amsterdam (2018). She has previously worked at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination in Strasbourg (France), the International Labour Organisation regional office for South-East Asia in Delhi (India), and as a consultant for European institutions on social and employment policies in Brussels (Belgium).

Her deep interest in human rights, labor rights, organizational sociology, and international governance led her to pursue a PhD at the Business Studies Department of Leiden Law School of Leiden University, where she began her research on March 15th, 2020. During the four years of her PhD, Sarah taught in the European and International Human Rights Advanced Master at Leiden Law School, coordinated the Empirical Legal Studies Lab and chaired the PhD Committee of her Faculty.

Sarah has broadened her expertise as a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for six months in 2023. Her commitment to Business and Human Rights, as well as her passion for social justice and ethics, is reflected in her active involvement with the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and L’Observatoire de l’Ethique Publique, a French think tank on public ethics. She continues to be an active academic member and holds coordinating roles in both organizations.