Environmental Law Lecture Series
Strengthening EU Environmental Law: Legal Perspectives on Greening Europe
This lecture series provides a set of important insights from environmental law scholars on how EU environmental law helps to achieve the aim of a high level of environmental protection in the European Union and across the world.
With the European Green Deal from 11 December 2019 the European Commission tabled an ambitious legislative program, based on fundamental aims such as zero pollution, do no harm, and climate neutrality. Many legal developments took place and are still on-going, both at the European and national regulatory levels as in the courtroom, including the national courts. While efforts to protect the environment are direly needed, including effective implementation and enforcement, the regulatory acquis, and the flow of case law, has become utterly complex which poses challenges for acquiring a good understanding and application.
This freely accessible online (and hybrid) lecture series provides students and scholars with core insights in the state of affairs and further improvement of EU environmental law. The lecture series will run in 2023 and 2024. All lectures will be recorded and will be made accessible through YouTube.
Maastricht University students will be invited to attend all lectures on-site together with the coordinator of the series, Prof Marjan Peeters. These students are eligible for a certificate of attendance.
This lecture series is part of the GreenDeal-NET initiative and hosted by MCEL and METRO, in cooperation with GLaw-Net.
Registration required
Hybrid via Zoom Hosted by Law Events Office
For contact or questions:
law-greendeal-net@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Upcoming lectures
CANCELLED. A new date will follow as soon as possible | Prof. Birgitte Egelund Olsen | Accelerating renewable energy deployment: a balancing of considerations | Click here for the abstract |
13 June 2024 4:00 – 5:30 PM CET - | Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus | EU Energy Efficiency Law – opportunities and barriers | Click here for the abstract |
Recorded lectures
8 March 2023 | Prof Dr. Michael Faure | Criminal Law as an Enforcement System of the Environmental Acquis | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
6 April 2023 | Prof. Fabrizio Fracchia | The Duty to Protect the Environment From anthropocentrism as a right to anthropocentrism as a duty towards future generations. | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
4 May 2023 | Prof. Helle Tegner Anker | EU competences and the energy crisis. On renewables, biodiversity and energy security | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
1 June 2023 | Prof. Dr. Bándi Gyula | The Right of Future Generations | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
29 June 2023 | Prof. Leonie Reins | Where Eagles Dare: How much room for EU member states under the environmental guarantee | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
21 Sept. 2023 | Prof. Colin Reid and Dr. Sean Whittaker | Freedom of Environmental Information | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
19 Oct. 2023 | Prof. Lorenzo Squintani | Public Participation in the EU and other legal frameworks: towards a more effective public participation practice | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here |
9 Nov. 2023 | Dr. Ioanna Hadjiyianni | Access to justice in environmental matters at EU level | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
7 Dec. 2023 | Prof. Mariolina Eliantonio | Access to justice in environmental matters before national courts and the role of the CJEU’s case law | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
8 Feb. 2024 | Ass. Prof. Annalisa Volpato and Prof. Ellen Vos | The institutional architecture of EU environmental governance The role of EU agencies | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
22 Feb. 2024 | Prof. Estelle Brosset | Greening EU Environmental Law: What about the European Climate Law? | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
14 March 2024 | Prof. Marjan Peeters | To fall in love with the EU Emissions Trading instrument? Opportunities and challenges of this core pillar of EU climate law | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
25 April 2024 | Prof. Stefan E. Weishaar | The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Encouragement of Cleaner Industries across the World? | The recording will follow soon. You can find the abstract here. |
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