Biography

Leigh Hancher is a professor of European law at the University of Tilburg and is also attached to the Amsterdam office of Allen & Overy as Counsel. Her research interests are energy market regulation, EU state aids and energy market governance.
Leigh has been a Professor since 1991, initially at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam In 1996 she was Visiting Professor in "Natural Resources Law" at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has broad experience in energy regulation issues at the European and national levels. Her expertise as well as her academic research is focused on the changing role of the government in stimulating the liberalisation of traditionally heavily regulated sectors.
Leigh studied law at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, and at the EUI. In 1989 she obtained, with distinctions, her doctorate in law at the University of Leiden.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Implementing network codes
• Regulating Power in Norway: Decentralization or Centralization?

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• COLUCCI, Anna; HANCHER, Leigh; POLETTI, Clara; SIKOW-MAGNY, Catharina (2024), The internal market and the EU green deal : friends or foes?, Video
• HANCHER, Leigh; DEZOBRY, Guillaume; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; MENEGATTI, Emma (2024), Leveraging the energy transition : the role of long-term contracts, Technical Report
• MEEUS, Leonardo; CONTI, Ilaria; DE ALMEIDA, Lucila; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HANCHER, Leigh; MÜNCHMEYER, Max; PIEBALGS, Andris; POTOTSCHNIG, Alberto (2023), Energy policy ideas for the next European Commission : from targets to investments, Other
• BERNINGER, Matthias; KNITTEL, Christopher; THOMPSON, Helen; ZACHMANN, Georg (2023), The geopolitics of the energy transition : is strategic autonomy the solution or the problem?, Video
• (2022), The EU Green Deal : 2022 edition, Technical Report
• MEEUS, Leonardo; BATLLE, Carlos; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HANCHER, Leigh; POTOTSCHNIG, Alberto; RANCI, Pippo; SCHITTEKATTE, Tim (2022), The 5th EU electricity market reform : a renewable jackpot for all Europeans package?, Working Paper