Leigh Hancher

Professor of European law at the University of Tilburg and former member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) until 2008. She graduated in law from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and obtained an MA in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Sheffield. She obtained her doctorate (cum laude) from Leiden University. She is also Of Counsel to Allen & Overy, Amsterdam. She specialises in European and Dutch law relating to network sectors including gas, electricity, telecoms, transport, post and water. Her expertise is primarily in the field of interconnection between competition law and sector-specific regulation state aid and cross-subsidisation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

She writes and lectures regularly on these subjects. She is a coauthor of EC State Aid Law (3rd ed, 2006) and EC Competition Law and Energy Markets (3rd ed in print) as well as numerous articles and chapters on European energy law.
Appearance
Towards a European Energy Community: A Policy Proposal
Study | 01/04/2010
Initiated by Jacques Delors, this report is the harvest of the work of the Task Force of high-level European experts to study the feasibility of a European Energy Community. The report was elaborated by Marc van der Woude and Leigh Hancher as co-chairs and Sami Andoura as rapporteur.