Dr. Miriam Saage-Maaß

Vice Legal Director at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

Dr. Miriam Saage-Maaß

Vice Legal Director at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

Biography

Dr. Miriam Saage-Maaß is a qualified lawyer and Vice Legal Director at ECCHR, where she coordinates the Business and Human Rights program. She has worked on various cases against corporations, including proceedings against Lidl relating to the exploitation of workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan and against companies trading in cotton picked through forced child labor in Uzbekistan. She regularly publishes articles on the legal liability of corporations for human rights violations in the global supply chain and is internationally consulted as an expert in the area of corporate responsibility and human rights. She is a temporary lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin.