Biography
Dr Stephanie Triefus is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Law. Stephanie's research focuses on qualitative approaches to international investment law and business and human rights. Stephanie's PhD thesis, awarded cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam, was titled 'International Investment Law from Below: Taking local community rights seriously'. The thesis investigated how international investment law marginalises participatory rights of local communities, and drew on interviews with members of a community affected by a foreign investment project.
Stephanie is also a Researcher at the T.M.C Asser Institute in The Hague, and is the Academic Coordinator of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research. Stephanie holds a LLM in Public International Law (cum laude) from Utrecht University and a LLB (with honours) from Macquarie University, Australia. Prior to joining academia Stephanie practiced commercial and community law in Australia.
Erasmus School of Law
- triefus@law.eur.nl
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Work
- Stephanie Triefus (2024) - International investment law from below: Taking local community rights seriously
- Stephanie Triefus (2023) - The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor-State Arbitration? - Business and Human Rights Journal, 8 (3), 329-351 - doi: 10.1017/bhj.2023.45 - [link]
- Federica Violi, Alessandra Arcuri, Ioannis Kampourakis & Stephanie Triefus (2022) - Legal Analysis of Select Issues under the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment - [link]
- Stephanie Triefus (2021) - Climate change and international investment law – a dangerous mix? - [link]
- Stephanie Triefus (2020) - On an Equal Basis with Others: Deaf Community Access to Emergency Broadcasting Through Bushfires and a Pandemic – Part II: The CRPD and Access to Information - [link]
- Alessandra Arcuri, Federica Violi, Sophia Paulini & Stephanie Triefus (2020) - Investment Law in Corona Times: How Myths Fuel Injustice - [link]
- Stephanie Triefus (2022) - Human Rights and International Investment Law PhD Workshop (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2022) - Business and Human Rights and Empirical Legal Research - Reflections on Field Work in Roșia Montană (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - SE (Stephanie) Triefus (2021) - ISDS and the UNGPs: Should businesses assess human rights impacts before initiating investor-state arbitration? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2021) - NNHRR Doctoral Research Forum (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2021) - Participation and international investment law (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2021) - Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2020) - Business and human rights treaty: A new era for public participation in international investment law? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2020) - Do foreign investors have a responsibility not to challenge COVID-19 measures via investor-state dispute settlement? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Stephanie Triefus (2020) - Human rights and international investment law (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
TMC Asser Institute
- Start date approval
- maart 2024
- End date approval
- maart 2027
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Academic Coordinator of NNNHRR/Researcher
Research and Writing Skills
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB51
Law Clinic International and European Un
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB57
Public International Law
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RD314
Public International Law
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RR314
Researcher
- Start date approval
- januari 2024
