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Research interests

Research interests: socio-economic human rights law; energy access; right to energy; right to health; right to housing; human rights and the environment; international climate law; international disaster law; poverty alleviation; sustainable development; access to essential services; NAIL/social constructivist legal theory.  

Publications

Just transition litigation in Latin America: Striking a balance between economic development and environmental and social energy justice

Addressing the Health-Energy Poverty Nexus Through International Human Rights Law

Children’s Rights to the Digital Environment: Access to Electricity as an Overlooked Obstacle for Closing ‘Digital Divides'

Disconnections of energy as a violation of international human rights law

Energy and the social contract: From “energy consumers” to “people with a right to energy”

Environmental Health: Regulating Clean Air & Water as Underlying Determinants of Health

Governing energy poverty in the European Union: An analysis of international and European human rights law

Human rights and access to modern energy services

International Human Rights Law (2022)

Just transition litigation in Latin America: an initial categorization of climate litigation cases amid the energy transition

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Press/media

De overheid heeft de plicht om te zorgen dat iedereen in de noodzakelijke energiebehoefte kan voorzien

Beperkte keuze staat verduurzaming in de weg

Ondanks steun is het aantal energiearme Nederlanders fors toegenomen: ‘Isolatie is de oplossing’

Energiearmoede is ergst voelbaar buiten de Randstad

Le chemin vers un service minimum de l’énergie en Europe

Groninger Wissenschaftler untersucht das Recht auf Energie | Wissenschaft

Groningse wetenschapster onderzoekt recht op energie

Groningse wetenschapster onderzoekt recht op energie

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