Emmanuelle Santoire
Emmanuelle Santoire is a post-doctorate researcher in geography and public law at the University of Pau and the Adour Countries – UPPA (UMR 6031 TREE). She holds a Ph.D. in geography from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Lyon in France. She is normalienne and agrégée in geography. She specializes in energy transition research and is particularly interested in geo-legal conversations to study the role of law in structuring energy spatialities. Her current research revolves around energy justice in both Europe and Canada. She focuses on two objects: the spatialities of the European energy market, and the forms of energy regulation provided through bilateral trade and investment agreements. This research contributes to the development of a geo-legal methodology that combines legal textual hermeneutics and comparative research, and ethnography.
Currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University at Oxford, she leads a project entitled “Assessing energy project infrastructure for the common good: a comparative analysis of European and international countries” focusing on cross-border European infrastructures involving third countries. The project's objective is to establish connections between European and comparative law researchers at Oxford and energy justice scholars in France, with the aim of pooling expertise on the European energy union. This initiative is financially supported by the Energy Justice and the Social Contract chair located at UPPA, for which Emmanuelle serves as the executive secretary of the international scientific committee.
Among her recent publications are a chapter on energy and trade in CETA Implementation and Implications: Unraveling the Puzzle, edited by Prof Robert Finbow, published by Queen’s-McGill University Press. Additionally, she has contributed to the discussion on interdisciplinarity and educational transformations in “Pathways of Scholarship for Energy Justice and the Social Contract,” featured in the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. Furthermore, an upcoming chapter on Investor-State dispute settlements and spatial justice is set to be published in The Power of Energy Justice, a volume edited by Prof Raphael Heffron, and published by SpringerNature.
