Dr Laura Kaschny (L.S.)

Dr. Laura Kaschny is Assistant Professor of EU Law. Her research sits at the intersection of energy law, economic regulation and administrative law, with a particular focus on how non-economic values are articulated within frameworks of economic regulation. She researches these questions in the context of societal and just transitions, tracing how value-claims travel across institutional boundaries vertically (such as between EU institutions, Member States and national regulatory authorities) and horizontally (between energy law and connected legal fields such as environmental law, competition law and administrative law). Her work highlights how these dynamics shape competences, regulatory design and institutional legitimacy. 

Kaschny’s research has been published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals such as Transnational Environmental Law and International & Comparative Law Quarterly, as well as with leading academic publishers including Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press. Her work has contributed to discussions in EU policy frameworks and has been cited in notable scholarship in her field. She was a National Nominee for the 2023-2024 Frontier Planet Prize, and she has been acknowledged as a Future Energy Leader by the Dutch Chapter of the World Energy Council.

During her PhD at Tilburg University, entitled ‘EU Energy Law and Energy Justice: A Substantive, Procedural and Institutional Perspective’, Kaschny examined how energy justice engages with Dutch and EU energy law. Following her PhD, she conducted postdoctoral research at Erasmus University Rotterdam, further developing her expertise in energy law and the regulation of societal transitions. She has participated in interdisciplinary research projects and collaborative consortiums such as NEON, HOLON, and V2G-Quests, working alongside engineers, social scientists and economists. These projects investigate key aspects of the energy transition in the Netherlands and across EU Member States, including the intersection of law and technology and their societal impacts. 

Kaschny teaches in the field of substantive EU law and supervises student theses across a wide range of EU law topics. By invitation, she has repeatedly delivered lectures at the Academy of European Law (ERA) and the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) in the field of energy and environmental law.