Corina HERI
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Corina HERI
Corina HERI is an associate professor at HYDR and the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She holds a research professor position (BOF-ZAP) and is the principal investigator of the FWO-funded Odysseus project ‘TEMPORALAW’ (2026-2031), which examines the temporality of rights-based climate litigation.
Research
Corina’s research covers topics related to regional and international human rights law, climate change, the role of courts, and critical legal theory. Her main current research interest concerns the interaction between human rights and climate change, and human rights and the environment more broadly, and particularly the phenomenon of rights-based climate litigation.
She obtained her PhD in 2017 at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the role of vulnerability in the torture case-law of the European Court of Human Rights; this research was published in monograph form under the title Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR (Hart Publishing, 2021). Corina previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Zurich, as well as an assistant professorial position at Tilburg University.
External affiliations
Corina is an editor of the ECHR Blog and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. She is also co-deputy director for Europe at the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE).
