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Laureen Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law and the Utrecht Centre for European Research on Family Law (UCERF). Her research interests are at the intersection of family law, ethics, and the implications of societal and technological developments on legal frameworks surrounding parenthood. Her PhD thesis, titled 'Family Choice, Doing: Legal Moral Reconsideration of Parentage Law,' explores fundamental questions regarding the increasing diversity of family structures and how existing laws can adapt to emerging reproductive technologies. Laureen has developed four innovative models aimed at creating a future-proof system of filiation law that addresses the moral values necessary for just legislative choices. She holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, graduating cum laude from Leiden University. Additionally, she spent a year at the University of Oxford studying common law and international law, and completed an internship at the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York, where she focused on human rights, gender equality, and sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR).
Department of Psychology