Daniel Schönfelder, LL.M. (Bogota)
Lawyer | Partner
Focus areas
Daniel advises companies, business associations, NGOs, public institutions and international organisations on human rights due diligence, sustainable corporate governance and sustainability compliance.
As a senior advisor at Deutsche Bahn, he champions compliance with sustainability due diligence legislation. He designs methodologies, processes and tools for implementation and accompanies their application in complex cases across the Group and departments.
Daniel is lead European legal advisor to the Responsible Contracting Project (Rutgers Law School), a member of the European Working Group on the Model Contract Clauses for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (EMC) and teaches business & human rights at universities in Germany and abroad.
Background
Daniel studied law at the University of Konstanz in Germany and obtained an LL.M. from Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, Colombia. He also completed a Certificate in Sustainable Business Management at the University of Cambridge.
Selected Publications
Lessons learned from Germany with impressions from Norway: Recommendations regarding the risk-based approach, SME suppliers, and civil liability for the Omnibus based on experiences from the implementation of the LkSG
expert opinion for Initiative Lieferkettengesetz, 2025
La ley de deber de vigilancia francesa y la ley alemana de cadena de suministro: miradas críticas desde la práctica y lecciones aprendidas desde su implementaciónin Hacia la diligencia debida obligatoria en derechos humanos: propuestas regulatorias y lecciones aprendidas Iglesias Márquez/del Valle Calzada/Marullo, Colex, 2024
Responsabilité des entreprises : L’Europe doit faire preuve de fermeté et rehausser les normes mondiales en matière de durabilitémit Stéphane Brabant und Michael Goldhaber, Le Monde, 2023
Complying with Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation Through Shared-Responsibility Contracting: The Example of Germany's Supply Chain Act (LkSG) in Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains: Model Contract Clauses, Legal Analysis, and Practical Perspectives) mit Sarah Dadush & Bettina Braun, Maslow/Snyder, ABA, 2023
menschenrechtliche und umweltbezogene Risiken, Öffentlich-rechtliche Durchsetzung, Zur internationalen Harmonisierung der Sorgfaltspflichten
(Co-)Author with Robert Grabosch and Christoph Engel in the first legal guide to the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) - “das neue Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz”, Grabosch, 2021, Nomos