Writing & Press

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.

Raustiala, Kal and Bridgeman, Natalie, Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime. UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 07-29, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1028603

Bridgeman, 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, 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, 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).