Emmeline is a PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School working with the Laureate Program on Global Corporate Climate Accountability. She is also a member of the Melbourne Climate Futures Academy.

Emmeline specialises in international and European (corporate) climate law, with a particular focus on corporate climate transition planning, carbon markets and human rights. Her doctoral work examines legal risks associated with corporate climate practices that rely on carbon dioxide removal across both civil and common law jurisdictions.

Following the completion of her LL.M, Emmeline served as coordinator and lecturer in the LL.M. in Corporate Climate Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. There, she taught courses including Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Climate Change and Climate Change Liability. At the undergraduate level, she taught additional private law courses and supervised theses on corporate and state climate accountability. 

She has published on corporate climate litigation in peer-reviewed Dutch legal journals and is a core member of the Amsterdam Center for Climate Change, Corporations and the Law. 

Emmeline holds an LL.M. in Corporate Climate Law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an LL.B. from Erasmus School of Law. Prior to entering academia, she gained experience at international law firms, working on European ESG legislation, greenwashing, hydrogen, and carbon market regulation