Bonheur Minzoto

Bonheur Minzoto is a Law Doctorate Candidate at the Law School, where he has also taught corporate governance as a Teaching Associate. Bonheur specialises in corporate law and governance, corporate groups, business and human rights, and mining law. 

Bonheur focuses on leveraging corporate law’s contribution to pressing societal challenges, and researches topics related to directors’ duties (including company group directors), corporate and parent company liability, corporate purpose and company interest, the consideration of non-adjusting creditors in solvent and distressed (group) companies, corporate sustainability due diligence, and corporate social responsibility. He has interests in law and economics, the sociology of law, legal history, and comparative methodologies.

His work has featured, or is forthcoming, in leading periodicals such as the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, and he has contributed to online publications like Oxford Business Law Blog and the Nova BHRE Blog.

Bonheur also works with the London-based corporate watchdog Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), consulting on mining legislation, company law and governance, and business and human rights in the DR Congo and Africa.

Bonheur read Law at York (where he was awarded the programme’s highest award mark) and Kinshasa (where he successfully represented the University at various international moot court competitions) and was a visiting researcher at Max Plank Luxembourg and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).

Corporate law and governance

Corporate groups

Business and Human Rights

Comparative Law

Law and Economics

Sociology of Law

Corporate Governance

Contract Law