Stephanie Triefus is a Researcher at the Asser Institute and the Academic Coordinator of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR). Her research interests include business and human rights, climate change and international economic law.
Stephanie received her PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research concerned international investment law and the participatory rights of people affected by foreign investment projects. This project took a critical approach to international investment law and employed qualitative empirical legal research.
Stephanie's thesis was a recipient of the 2025 Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize.
Stephanie holds a Master of Public International Law specialising in Human Rights (cum laude) from Utrecht University and a Bachelor of Laws/Arts (Honours I) from Macquarie University in Australia. She is admitted as a lawyer in Australia and has practiced commercial and community law.
Highlighted Publications
Stephanie Triefus, 'International Investment Law from Below: Taking local community rights seriously' (2024) PhD Thesis, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (unpublished)
Stephanie Triefus, 'The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?' (2023) 8(3) Business and Human Rights Journal 329-351
Stephanie Triefus and Irina Velicu, 'Polenta and Cyanide? Investment Arbitration as Prospective Environmental Injustice in Roșia Montană', in Raluca Grosescu and John G. Dale (eds), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (Springer, 2025)
