Leigh Hancher

Dr. Leigh Hancher is a Professor of European Law at European University Institute.
Her research interests include energy market regulation, EU state aids and energy market governance.
Her expertise, as well as her academic research, is focused on the changing role of the government in stimulating the liberalization of traditionally heavily regulated sectors.
Dr. Hancher studied law at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, and at the EUI.
She obtained her doctorate in law, with distinctions, from the University of Leiden in 1989.