Personal profile
Short presentation
Maria Edith Lindholm Gausdal is a Phd Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. Maria is conducting a research project on the integration of labour and labour related human rights clauses in respectively private and public commercial contracts. The primary purpose of the project is to explore legal differences and similarities of such labour related CSR-clauses in these two contractual settings in order to determine best contractual practices, to uncover the implications of such clauses as regulators including their potential impact on basic contractual concepts.
Current research areas
Contract law, private and public governance of human rights and fundamental labour conditions in commercial contracts, codes of conducts, sustainability clauses, the interface between contract law and public procurement law, CSR and contract law.
Teaching and supervision
Torts and contract law, contract law, EU public procurement law.