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Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance

Climate Change Litigation under European Law

19 May 2025

Clara H. L. Labus is a PhD researcher in European law in her second year of the Law and Business programme at LUISS University in Rome, Faculty of Law. She is joining ACELG as a visiting researcher from May to July 2025. Her research focuses on the intersection between climate litigation and EU law, especially on the role of the European Court of Justice.

The current working title of her research project is: “Climate Change Litigation under European Law: The Role of the CJEU and National Courts”.

Her PhD focuses, firstly, on different procedural avenues before the CJEU, incorporating the aspect of access to justice for individuals. On a substantive level, the project briefly sums up the existing legal framework in climate policy and addresses the question of legal effects of international climate agreements in the EU legal order. Secondly, the project analyses the ways in which national courts employ EU law in national climate cases against States and companies.

During her stay in Amsterdam, while continuing her doctrinal analysis, she is eager to broaden her research with socio-legal and other methods employed by the researchers at ACELG.

Clara holds a German law degree from Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main (First German State Examination) as well as a LL.M. in European Law and Policies (MELP) from LUISS University in Rome.