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People / Laura Kaschny

Portrait of Laura Kaschny

PhD researcher

Laura Kaschny

Phd | Law, regulation & governance

Institution
Tilburg University
Work package
WP8a Regulation
In NEON
2020-2025
PhD
defended, 20 June 2025
Thesis
EU energy law and energy justice: A substantive, procedural and institutional perspective
Now
Assistant Professor of EU Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University

PhD candidate in WP8a (regulation) at Tilburg University, supervised by Saskia Lavrijssen and Leonie Reins (both promotors); defended her thesis on 20 June 2025.

Legal scholar working on EU energy law, economic regulation and energy justice. She wrote her NEON PhD at Tilburg University (TILT/TILEC) on how EU energy law deals with energy justice, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus School of Law and is now assistant professor of EU law at Maastricht University.

About me

To be honest, being a ‘research machine’ has been a big and exciting part of my life so far – may this be as a biologist on Svalbard (High Arctic) or a law student in the Netherlands and Germany. To balance my nerdy pleasure of brain storming over legal issues for hours, I try to do sports as much as time allows me. (Still hoping to make that marathon dream become reality – and not just purchase endless runner tickets without ever using them…) I also consider myself a very social person and I am the happiest with my family, friends and dog around me.

Personal Motivation

Having a background in biology and environmental management, I see the world a lot through the lens of a ‘natural scientist’. Standing in the laboratory and experiencing climate change and the human influence on ecosystems and society ‘first hand’ has greatly motivated me to expand this understanding further to the regulatory and legal side of these issues. Now as a legal PhD candidate, Neon resonates a lot with me as it allows me to bring these worlds together. Based on its interdisciplinary approach and linking scientific knowledge to real life outcomes, it allows us to address the societal challenge of an energy transition in an effective and comprehensive manner.

Law, regulation and governance

EU law, energy and environmental regulation, regulation of prosumers, regulation of renewable energy integration

Link to other neon research

As law is mostly considered to be ‘lagging behind reality’, I would like to engage and discuss with everyone who could share insights into the barriers that still exist (in practice) with regard to the introduction of renewable energy sources into the grid.

Profile text from the former NEON website.

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Supervised by

Leonie Reins
Co-investigator · Erasmus University Rotterdam Saskia Lavrijssen
Principal investigator · Tilburg University

Publications and talks