Olga Martin-Ortega joined the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict in November 2006. She holds a Law degree from the University of Sevilla (Spain). Olga received her PhD in International Human Rights Law at the University of Jaen (Spain) in 2006. Before joining the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict she was a lecturer in European Law at Napier University, Edinburgh, and Public International Law and Human Rights in Jaen.

She conducts research in the areas of business and human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice. Her latest research has focused on the impact of the activities and working methods of multinational enterprises in conflict zones, the rebuilding of rule of law and transitional justice in Liberia and the work of the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Olga Martin-Ortega teaches at the LLM Programme. She is the module leader for:

• War and Human Rights
• Business and Human Rights

• Peacebuilding and rule of law in Africa. Just Peace? (Oxon: Routledge, 2010), co-edited with Chandra L. Sriram and Johanna Herman.
• “Business Under Fire: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights in Conflict Zones”, in Noelle Quenivet y Shilan Shah-Davis, International Law and Armed Conflicts: Challenges in the XXIst Century (The Hague:T.M.C. Asser Institute, 2010), pp. 189-207.
• International Law, 6th ed. (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2009), co-authored with Rebecca M.M. Wallace.
• War, conflict and human rights (Oxon: Routeledge, 2009), co-authored with Chandra L. Sriram and Johanna Herman.
• Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations (Oxon: Routledge, 2009), co-edited with Sriram C. L., King J. C., Mertus J. A. Herman, J.
• “Sistema de Seguridad Colectiva”, in Derecho International Publico (Barcelona, Huygens, 2009), pp. 373-397. (with Victor M. Sanchez).
• "Deadly ventures? Multinational corporations and paramilitaries in Colombia", Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales, No. 16, 2008.
• "Business and Human Rights in Conflict", Ethics & International Affairs, Vol.22.3 (Fall 2008), pp. 273-283.
• "The European Corporate Responsibility Strategy: A Pole of Excellence?"(with Muzaffer Eroglu) in .
• Empresas multinacionales y derechos humanos en Derecho internacional, JM Bosch, 2008.
• “International responses to multinational enterprises’ lack of accountability for human rights abuses in the context of globalisation”, Revista de Estudios Juridicos, No. 7, 2006, p. 469-482. 
• “”, in Stephen Tully (ed.), Research Handbook on Corporate Responsibility (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005), pp. 302-315. (with Rebecca M.M. Wallace).
• Dublin University Law Journal, Vol. 26, 2004, p. 304-319 (with Rebecca M.M. Wallace). This material was first published in the Dublin University Law Journal (2004) DULJ 304-319 and is here reproduced with kind permission of Thomson Round Hall.
• “Globalización, Negocios y Derechos Humanos: el caso de Birmania/Myanmar”, in XX Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales, (Madrid: BOE, 2005), pp. 315-327.
• “” in Revista de Estudios Jurídicos, No. 5, 2004, p. 191-218.
• “”, Ámbitos, Revista de Estudios de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, No. 11, Vol. 1, 2004, pp. 79-96 (with Rebecca M.M. Wallace).
• “Algunas consideraciones en torno al concepto de gobernanza global”, February 2003, in Nou Cicle, el color del progres, (available at: http://www.noucicle.org/arxiu2/olgam.html)

Reviews and Opinion Pieces

• With Rosa Ana Alija Fernandez, "Argentina may give hope to victims of Spanish civil war and Franco regime", JURIST, 18 June 2010.
• With Jordi Palau-Loverdos, 'Preserving Spain's Universal Jurisdiction Law in the Common Interest', JURIST, 26 June 2009.