Charlotte Renglet

Research

Charlotte RENGLET is a PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) under the supervision of Prof. Stefaan Smis (VUB) and Dr. Dorothée Cambou (University of Helsinki). 

Charlotte holds a master’s degree in law from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and an LLM in Public international law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The master’s thesis that she wrote during her LLM on the land rights of the Indigenous Negev Bedouins in Israel was later published as an article in the Belgian Review of International Law, for which she was awarded the Prize of the Belgian Society for International Law 2017.

Her PhD research focuses on human rights-based climate litigation and the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples’ rights. Her objective is to critically assess the potential of strategic litigation based on human rights to obtain a better climate policy and protect the rights of indigenous peoples in the climate crisis. The provisional title of her dissertation is: “The potential and limitations of human rights-based systemic climate litigation to address the climate crisis and obtain climate justice for indigenous peoples”. This work is supported by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO - Research project G079120N). 

Functions outside of the VUB context

After her studies and before starting her PhD research, Charlotte first did an internship at the International Humanitarian Law Service of the Belgian Ministry of Justice. She then practiced as a lawyer in the field of immigration law at the Brussels Bar from September 2015 to December 2018.