Speaking, Writing, Teaching, & Press
Speaking
Natalie’s selected invited speaking engagements:
UCLA School of Law, Featured Speaker, Careers in International Law, 2025
Global Philanthropy Forum, Panelist on Effective Social Enterprise, Redwood City, California, 2017-20
Aspen Ideas Festival, Featured Speaker, Aspen, Colorado, 2019
World Affairs Council, Panelist, Social Start-Up Success Stories, 2018
Belt and Road Conference, Understanding Accountability Mechanisms, Shanghai, China, 2018
Skoll World Forum, Accountability in Impact Investing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018
World Bank Annual Meeting, Technology and Citizen Engagement, New Approaches, Washington D.C., 2017
ABA Section on International Law, Panelist and Panel Sponsor, “The Role of Lawyers in IFI Accountability Mechanisms”, New York, April 2014
TEDx Speaker, Dare to Demand Justice, Cornell University TEDx, Ithaca, New York, November 2013
The World Bank Inspection Panel, Panelist and Conference Organizer, ‘A Conversation with the IAMs About the Promise of Remedy and Accountability,’ Washington, DC, September 2013 (at the Annual Meeting of the IAMs)
California State Bar Annual Meeting, Panelist: ‘Impact of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on the Extractive Industry’, San Jose, California, September 2013
Business for Social Responsibility, Featured Speaker, ‘Alternatives to Litigation’, San Francisco, September 2013
Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, Featured Speaker, Ithaca, New York, April 2013
Harvard Law School, Successful Social Ventures, Featured Speaker, Cambridge, March 2013
United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, Panelist on Access to Non-judicial Remedy, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2012
World Legal Forum, ‘Resolving Company-Community Conflicts’ Conference, Access to Remedies, The Hague, December 2012
Business for Social Responsibility, Panelist on Identifying an Effective Remedy for Human Rights Impacts, New York, October 2012
Stanford Law School, Panel Presentation: Accountability Counsel and Innovative Lawyering for Changemakers, October 29, 2011
UC Berkeley School of Law Speaker Series, ‘Holding Corporations Accountable,’ Berkeley, California, September 15, 2011
Annual Conference of the International Accountability Mechanisms, Keynote Speaker, Benchmarking Trends, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2011
NYU School of Law, Corporate Accountability, International Human Rights, and Development, New York, New York, March 2011
World Legal Forum Panelist on Access to Remedies, The Hague, December 2010
University of San Francisco School of Law, “International Institution and Corporate Accountability”, Continuing Legal Education Lecture and Training, San Francisco, November 2009
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Workshop on Corporations and Human Rights: Accountability Mechanisms; Panelist and Discussant, Cambridge, November 2007 (“Ruggie Principles Consultation”)
Sustainability and the Mexican Financial Sector, Panelist, “Lessons for International Development Finance Governance,” Mexico City, October 2007
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Development Accountability and Alternative Recourse Mechanisms, San Francisco, March 2007 (MCLE course)
Writing
Organizational
Using Founder Sabbaticals as Organizational Reset · Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) · Dec 16, 2021
Substantive
Bridgeman Fields, N. (2025). "Chapter 18 “Use and Improve” Is My Accountability Mantra, despite Thirty Years of Eye-Opening Disappointments". In Perspectives on Accountability at International Financial Institutions. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Earthjustice’s International Team Sees Glimmers of Hope Around the World at Year’s End · Earthjustice Blog · December 20, 2024
Bridgeman Fields, N. Opinion: UNOPS probe shows need for impact-investing accountability · Devex · May 18, 2022
Bridgeman Fields, N. Climate Finance Greenwashing Is Happening: We Have Tools to Prevent It, But Need Adoption At Scale · Nasdaq · May 18, 2022
Bridgeman Fields, N. After the IPCC Report, What’s Next If You Want to Fund Climate Solutions? Start With Listening to Communities · co-authored Blog, Accountability Counsel, 2021
Bridgeman Fields, N. Accountability in Africa · Report, Accountability Counsel and African Coalition for Corporate Accountability, Lead Author, 2020
Bridgeman Fields, N. Opinion: The case for public reforms to the World Bank's Inspection Panel · Devex · December 13, 2019
Bridgeman Fields, N. China’s promise of responsible belt and road investments is in the hands of its bankers · South China Morning Post · June 12, 2019
Bridgeman Fields, N. Do No Harm: Accountability for impact investing · Stanford Law School Blogs · May 10, 2018
Bridgeman Fields, N. China Moves Toward Accountability for Overseas Financing · The Diplomat · February 3, 2018
Bridgeman Fields, N. Opinion: Jim Kim's World Bank is a setup for the poor · Devex · February 1, 2018
Bridgeman Fields, N. Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing · Stanford Social Innovation Review · November 8, 2016
Bridgeman Fields, N. Rejecting the World Bank’s false choice between rights & development · Business and Human Rights Resource Centre · June 20, 2016
Bridgeman Fields, N. Rethinking Accountability at the World Bank, Council on Foreign Relations · May 7, 2015
Bridgeman Fields, N. Council on Foreign Relations, “Keep the World Bank Accountable” · Guest Blog, Development Channel · February 2014
Bridgeman Fields, N. “What Does ‘Access to Remedy’ Really Mean?” Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell ruling in light of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights · Business for Social Responsibility, Guest Blog · April 2013.
Bridgeman Fields, N. What Kiobel Means for Corporate Accountability · Accountability Counsel, Blog · April 2013.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Accountability Resource Guide · (2012-2023 editions) Guide addresses tools for redressing human rights and environmental violations by international financial institutions, export promotion agencies and private corporate actors. Translated into English, Telugu and Hindi, summary version in Spanish.
Bridgeman Fields, N. A Call for Reform of World Bank Group Agribusiness Policies and Practices: Impacts on Indigenous and Peoples’ Rights, Culture, Knowledge, and Security · Center for International Environmental Law Publication, August 2011 (report submitted to the IFC’s Performance Standard Review and for U.S. Treasury Department IFI agribusiness strategy).
Bridgeman Fields, N. “Human Rights responsibilities of private sector banks; The policy required to ‘Respect’ and provide ‘Access to remedy’” · BankTrack Publication, July 2010 Submission to Professor John Ruggie, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (2nd Ed., MIT Press) · Book Chapter, Co-Author with Prof. Kal Raustiala.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Article, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Issue XX: 2 2008 · Co-Author with Professor David Hunter “Narrowing the Accountability Gap: Toward a New Foreign Investor Accountability Mechanism” 2 GEO. INT'L ENV'TL. L. REV. 187 (2008) * Awarded Honorable Mention in the second annual Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR), a joint publication of the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law Reporter and the Vanderbilt University Law School.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Article, Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Vol. 6, 2003 2003 · “Human Rights Litigation Under the ATCA as a Proxy for Environmental Claims”, 6 YALE H.R. & DEV. L.J. 1 (2003) *Winner of the 2002 Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest.
Bridgeman Fields, N. Note, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Issue XIII: 3 2001 · “World Bank Reform in the ‘Post-Policy’ Era” 13 GEO. INT'L ENV'TL. L. REV. 1013 (2001).
Press
Rachel Cernansky, New York Times, Opinion: It Takes Consultation to Help a Village (Jul 17, 2018).
Larisa Epatko, PBS News, This lawyer helps Mongolian herders and Indian tea farmers fight injustice (June 15, 2017).
Marc Gunther, Nonprofit Chronicles, Holding the Powerful Accountable (May 2, 2017).
Catherine Cheney, Devex News, Inside the campaign to support communities harmed by development (April 27, 2017).
Peter Orsi and Ronnie Greene, Associated Press (AP), US-backed Mexico dam project triggered protest, rare defeat (January 30, 2015)
Teaching
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School, co-listed with Stanford Business School, Accountability for the Unintended Consequences of Impact Investing, Law and Policy Lab, with Paul Brest, 2017-18
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Social Entrepreneur in Residence Program course on Social Entrepreneurship, 2016; course teaching, 2024
Visiting Professor, American University, Washington College of Law (co-taught International Institutions and the Environment with Prof. David Hunter), Summer 2009, 2010, and 2011
Guest Lectures in Business and Human Rights Course at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (2011-2019)
Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Summer Session, co-taught International Law course, 2009, invited to return Summer 2010