Rebecca Schmidt is assistant professor at Dublin City University. She obtained a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence and an LLM in International and Legal Studies from New York University. Before starting her current position, she held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin and a one-year postdoctoral fellowship within the Transnational Business Governance Interactions Project (at Osgoode Hall Law School and at the Baldy Center at State University of New York, Buffalo). She was also visiting fellow with the GlobalTrust Project at Tel Aviv University.