Postdoctoral Researcher
TLS: Tilburg Law School
TLS: Public Law and Governance
Laura Mai is a postdoctoral researcher working within the Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene project at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University.
Laura earned her PhD from King's College London, where she was member of the Centre for Climate Law and Governance. In her doctoral thesis, Laura investigated how local administrations and financial institutions have become enrolled in the processes of change which are necessary to reach the goals set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
Laura’s research interests cover the following areas:
In her current research, Laura investigates how ways of thinking and doing law are becoming reconfigured under conditions of the unfolding climate crisis.
Specifically, Laura engages with the following questions:
Laura approaches these question from a socio-legal perspective that draws on ethnographic methods and works across theoretical registers from the social sciences and the humanities. In so doing, Laura’s research moves between empirical materials and conceptualisation to give visibility to the multiple ways in which legal forms are done and known.
Laura lectures on the following modules:
In addition, she supervises Bachelor and Master theses in the areas of environmental and climate change law and governance.
Laura is a qualified English solicitor and has worked for international organisations, including the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat.
She is alumna of the Cluster Transformation supported by Heinrich-Böll Foundation Berlin, research fellow of the Earth System Governance Project and member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
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