Danny Rayman Labrin

Doctoral Researcher

Supervisor/advisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski, Dr. Lene Guercke

Contact: danny.rayman@fau.de

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Danny is an international human rights lawyer and researcher specialising in corporate accountability, business and human rights, digital rights and open-source investigations. He holds a law degree from Universidad Diego Portales, a Master’s in Law and New Technologies from Universidad de Chile, and an LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from European University Viadrina. He is a Doctoral Researcher in Law in the Unmasking Supply Chains project at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). His research examines how disclosure and traceability obligations under European mandatory human rights due diligence regimes intersect with open-source evidence.

From 2021 to 2025, he was a Technology and Human Rights Researcher at the Business & Human Rights Centre, investigating technology companies, leading the Technology Company Dashboard, engaging companies on due diligence, and contributing to reports and UN submissions, including on conflict-affected areas. Previously, he spent six years at Fundación Datos Protegidos working on privacy and freedom of expression, from Litigation Coordinator to Director. He has consulted for Tactical Tech, WZB Berlin, NIRAS, Artists at Risk Connection and Chile’s National Human Rights Institute, and served on the board of ONG Acción Constitucional and as Interim Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at Wikimedia Chile.

He led Testigo en Línea, documenting human rights violations during Chile’s 2019 social uprising through open-source investigations, and has litigated before Chilean courts and the Inter-American Human Rights System. He has taught at Chilean universities and published in the Business and Human Rights Journal and with Springer. He speaks Spanish and English and has a good command of German.

Danny researches the intersection of mandatory human rights due diligence and digital open-source investigations within the field of Business and Human Rights. Focusing on local European Due Diligence Laws and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the study explores how disclosure and traceability obligations interact with the use of open-source information as evidence of corporate harm. Drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and combining doctrinal and empirical methods, it asks whether these legal frameworks can be leveraged by affected communities and civil society to overcome corporate opacity, close evidentiary gaps, and secure accountability across global supply chains.

  • Smart, S. & Rayman, D. (2026) AI, Environmental Damage, and Regulatory Divides: Fragmented Governance and the Latin American Response. In S. Talukdar (Ed.) Law, Accountability and Corporate Conduct: Case Studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, New Approaches to Business, Human Rights and the Environment, vol 1. Springer, Cham. (205-235)  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-28714-4_9  
    • Barrera, M., & Rayman, D. (2023). Protecting Reproductive Rights Post-Roe: Can Companies Keep Your Data Safe?, Business and Human Rights Journal, 8(2), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.16  
    • Rayman, Danny (2015), Chile: Vigilancia y derecho a la privacidad en Internet [Chile: Surveillance and the Right to Privacy on the Internet], Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnologías, 4 (1), 187-232. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-2584.2015.36007