IGS: Current and Recent Graduate Research
Claire Woods
Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Investment.
Supervisor(s):
Contact Info:
- Email: claire.woods@worc.ox.ac.uk
- Address: Worcester College, Oxford
Academic Profile
Claire commenced her D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in October 2008. She holds a Maîtrise in International Law from the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Melbourne. She is a Clarendon Scholar.
She has worked as a research fellow for the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and as an analyst for the G8 Research Group (Oxford). Before coming to Oxford, she worked as an analyst at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and has been admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria as an Australian lawyer.
Current Research Interests
- Institutional investment and environmental issues; and
- Development of climate change law.
Publications
- Urwin, R. and Woods, C. (submitted) Models for Sustainable Investing: Principles for Institutional Investors. Journal of Business Ethics, Special issue: The Next Generation of Responsible Investing.
- Woods, C. (forthcoming, 2010) Funding Climate Change: How pension fund fiduciary duty masks trustee intertia and short-termism. In, Hawley, J., Kamath, S. and Williams, A.T. (eds.) Institutional Investors, Risk / Return Tradeoffs, and Corporate Governance Failures. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- UNEP FI, Fiduciary Responsibility: Legal and practical aspects of integrating environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment.
Conference Presentations
- 5-7 October 2009 - Institutional Investors, Risk/Return and Corporate Governance Failures: Practical lessons from the global financial crisis, Elfenworks Centre for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism, St Mary's College of California.
- 1-2 October 2009 - PRI Conference 2009, Carleton University, Canada.
- 8-13 February 2009 - Oikos/PRI young finance scholars academy.