Laura is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar with expertise in international and transnational climate law and governance. Combining empirical research with doctrinal analysis and conceptual inquiry, Laura has investigated how national governments, global city networks, financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, and digital infrastructure providers have become enrolled in the global effort to address climate change.

Laura’s research has been published in the Leiden Journal of International Law, Transnational Environmental Law, Global Policy, and Global Environmental Politics (amongst others). Laura has co-edited several volumes, including on Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene and a Research Agenda for Law, Finance, and the Environment. Laura’s forthcoming monograph In A State of Change: The Paris Agreement, Transformation, and Legal Reconfiguring will be published with Cambridge University Press this year.

Laura holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from King’s College London for which she was awarded the ‘King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize 2022-23’ – the highest PhD-related academic honour across all faculties at KCL. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, Laura was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene group at Tilburg University and she is Associate Editor at Transnational Legal Theory.

Outside of academia, Laura has worked as a solicitor in London, Brussels, and Hong Kong, been appointed as a consultant for the UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, advised climate NGOs in the UK and Germany, and provided expert evidence to the British Parliament’s All-Party Group on Climate Change.