Dr. Laura Mai

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: 

• climate change law, specifically the Paris Agreement;
• the "Anthropocene" and its import on legal scholarship and praxis;
• legal multiplicity;
• transformation thinking; and
• socio-legal theory and methods.