dr. M.M.E. (Marlies) Hesselman

Dr. Hesselman is an Assistant Professor in International Law. She is currently Internship coordinator for the LLMs Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. She is part of the UG Teaching Academy Committee on Diversity & Inclusion. She was previously a coordinator of the LLB programme, and is currently chair of the Programme Committee for the LLMs PIL, IHRL. She is also academic coordinator and lead organiser for the GCHL Summer School on "Global Governance of Health Vulnerabilities in Africa", organized jointly with Mzumbe University, in Tanzania.

Dr. Hesselman supervises PhD students, LLM and LLB thesis students with an interest in the areas of international human rights law and energy access/justice, climate change, and environmental health law. She is open to further proposals in these areas.

Current teaching: full courses and partial contributions:

*(co-)coordinating role

Past teaching:

Guest lecturing:

• European Climate and Health Responders Course: 'Climate Litigation and Health', Global Consortium for Health and Climate Education /
  Columbia University NY (2024) see here
• Jean Monnet Summer School: European and International Human Rights Standards on Disasters: 'International and Regional Human Rights Law'; 'Right to Humanitarian Assistance', Sant'Anna Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy (2021-2023, 2024-2026)

• Jean Monnet Summer School: Health, Environment and Climate Change: 'Human Rights, Air Pollution and Climate Change', University of Salerno, Italy (2018)

• North Sea Energy Law Programme: 'Energy Access and the Law', University of Groningen, Netherlands (2018)

• LLM 'Research Seminar: 'The Contours of a Human Right to Energy Access' University of Aberdeen, UK (2016), see here.
• MA - 'Theorizing Human Rights, Society and State' (Civic-State Interaction: Translating Human Rights Norms into Local Realities), ISS/Erasmus University, Rotterdam (2013).