Nele Schuldt

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Nele Schuldt is a Researcher in Human Rights and Climate Change Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Her research examines procedural and substantive issues in climate litigation before regional human rights courts. She focuses on issues of standing and victim status before the European Court of Human Rights, the use of Paris-aligned greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios in assessing state obligations, and legal approaches for evaluating individual emitters’ contributions to climate change impacts under human rights law.

Nele Schuldt holds a joint LL.B in Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex and an Advanced LL.M in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University. She is due to obtain her PhD in Law from Ghent University. Her doctoral research examines the role of scientific evidence in climate litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights, with particular attention to questions of causation, attribution science, and evidentiary assessment. Her work combines doctrinal analysis with socio-legal methods to analyse how institutional practices, evidentiary frameworks, and judicial perceptions shape the treatment of scientific knowledge in human rights adjudication.