dr. M.M.E. (Marlies) Hesselman

Ongoing projects:

Finalised projects:

ENGAGER: 'European Energy Poverty: Agenda Co-Creation and Knowledge Innovation' (EU COST Action CA 16232: 2017-2022)

The EU COST Action ENGAGER - European Energy Poverty is a European-wide interdiscplinary network of scholars and practioners that jointly seek to define, understand and design effective policy action on the phenomenon of 'energy poverty' in Europe.  I was part of ENGAGER as co-lead of Working Group 3 on "Dialogues - Co-producing Emancipatory Research and Practice" with dr. Sergio Herrero Tirado (Autonomous University Barcelona), as Dutch Member of the Management Committee, and as Core Group member. ENGAGER was funded for 2017-2022 with a total budget of aprox. EUR 600.000. See http://engager-energy.net/     

Yearbook of International Disaster Law (2017-2023)

As founding co-editor of the new Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill Nijhoff Publishers), together with Giulio Bartolini, Dug Cubie, Jacqueline Peel and Anastasia Telesetsky, I was responsible for solliciting, reviewing and publishing input for the Yearbook, Volumes 1 to 4. YIDL aims to explore and establish the field of International Disaster Law as a new field of law, and functions as a hub for publications and academic exchange amongst the IDL community. The YIDL is supported with funding by the IFRC. See https://brill.com/view/serial/YIDL.

Jean Monnet Project Disseminating Disaster Law for Europe (2019-2021)

Led by Roma Tre University (Bartolini), with support by University College Cork (Cubie), UG (Hesselman) and IFRC /Italian Red Cross. This project supported dissemination of academic knowledge, research and debate on the crucial implications of disaster law for European, international and national institutions and humanitarian activities of relevant stakeholders. The project included a main conference in Rome and three thematic meetings, as well as several online lectures. See: https://www.dilaw4.eu/

International Conference:  The Right to Energy in Theory and Practice (University of Groningen, 8-9 January 2020)
Together with Anaïs Varo (University of Girona) I organized and hosted the first-ever two-day international disciplinary workshop on the "Right to Energy in Theory and Practice" at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen. It brought together over 50 academics and practioners from over Europe and beyond (Uganda, Taiwan, Australia) to discuss the content and practice of the right to energy. The workshop led to a podcast series, produced by EnACT.  

Workshop Series on 'International Law for the Sustainable Development Goals' (IL4SDGs) (2017-2018) Dr. Mando Rachovitsa and myself have been acting as lead-organizers for the Department's workshop series on International Law for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This series consisted of eight international workshops on various SDG-themes put together through close collaborations with other colleagues of the Department, wider Faculty members, and other relevant partners. It led to an Open Access Special Journal Issue with Brill Open Law: An International Journal.     

2013-2014 Seminar Series on 'Human Rights for Essential Public Services Provision' and related book project
Jointly with colleagues Antenor Hallo de Wolf and Brigit Toebes, we set up and co-organized the first Seminar Series of the Department of International Law with seven themed international seminars/workshops, and a Call for Papers-based general meeting. This project culminated in the following edited volume:

• Hesselman, Hallo de Wolf, Toebes (eds), 'Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision'  (Routlegde 2017).