Laura Mai joins NYU Law as a Hauser Postdoctoral Fellow for the fall semester of 2026. Following her fellowship, Laura will take up the Bloom Foundation Professorship in Climate Law & Society at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Laura’s expertise cuts across international and transnational climate law and governance. Applying a socio-legal perspective, she has investigated how national governments, global city networks, financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, and digital infrastructure providers have become enrolled in global efforts to address climate change. Laura is currently working on her new research project, Legal Geographies of Climate Change. The project examines how law – through its knowledge practices, materialities, and aesthetics – links climate change to particular places, in order to assess what this means for the allocation of responsibilities and for climate justice.

Laura holds a PhD from King’s College London, UK, and has previously worked at Tilburg University and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Outside academia, Laura has worked in private legal practice, served as a consultant for the UN Climate Change Secretariat, advised climate NGOs, and provided expert evidence to the British Parliament.

Research Project: Legal Geographies of Climate Change – Responsibility and Justice in Planetary Perspective