Emmanuelle Santoire

Dr. Emmanuelle Santoire is normalienne, agrégée in geography, and a post-doctorate researcher in geography and public law at the UMR 6262 IODE - University of Rennes and formally researcher in the Energy Justice & the Social Contract Chair at the University of Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. She holds a Ph.D. in geography from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Lyon in France. She specializes in energy transition research and in legal geography 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 European energy investments, and the forms of energy regulation provided through bilateral trade and investment agreements. This research contributes to the development of a geo-legal methodology.

She is a former visiting researcher at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University at Oxford, where she lead a project on European energy investments. She is an early member of the Critical Legal Geography research network. Among her recent publications are a chapter on investments and energy justice at Springer Link and 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.