Andreas Rühmkorf

Co-Investigator

Dr. Andreas Rühmkorf is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law within the School of Law at the University of Sheffield. He is admitted to the bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt).

His research focuses on two primary areas: legal strategies to promote social responsibility and human rights in global supply chains and company law and corporate governance in a comparative and international context. Andreas is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Private Law and Global Supply Chains (Edward Elgar, 2015) and was Co-Investigator on the Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART) research project that was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program from 2015-2020. 

Rühmkorf’s recent work has investigated the effectiveness of home state regulation as a strategy to spur companies to address forced labour; he has published two articles on this co-authored with Genevieve LeBaron in top academic journals, Global Policy and Socio-Economic Review. Building on that work, he is currently developing new research investigating the effectiveness of state and worker-led alternatives to corporate social responsibility as strategies to promote labour standards and eradicate forced labour in supply chains.