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 across Europe on how EU environmental law helps to achieve the aim of a high level of environmental protection in the European Union, including impacts of EU environmental law 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. Lectures will pay attention on how also after the elections for the European Parliament in June 2024 the environmental acquis of the EU and its application will develop.
Next lecture: Thursday 14 November
The next lecture is scheduled for Thursday, 14 November. It will be delivered by Dr. Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Assistant Professor of European law, particularly environmental law, at Maastricht University.
Her research deals particularly with topics of water and marine environmental protection, biodiversity and corporate sustainability due diligence related to water. She defended her doctoral dissertation titled ‘Normative Environmental Quality as a Regulatory Strategy in EU Environmental law: Legal Implications of Water Status Objectives’ in June 2024 at the University of Eastern Finland. In her research, she is particularly interested in how the legal systems’ structures, limitations and principles deriving from outside the field of environmental law affect the effectiveness of (EU) environmental law in steering towards the achievement of environmental objectives.
Recorded lectures
This freely accessible online (and hybrid) lecture series started in March 2023 and will be continued in the academic year 2024-2025. All lectures have been recorded and are accessible through YouTube.
Certificate of attendance
Maastricht University students will be invited to attend the lectures on-site. Students are eligible for a certificate of attendance if they have attended at the least 3 lectures on-site and have signed the registration form. After registering for a lecture, you will receive a confirmation email. This email will contain instructions on how to request a certificate. For questions email to: law-greendeal-net@maastrichtuniversity.nl
This lecture series is part of the GreenDeal-NET initiative and hosted by MCEL and METRO, in cooperation with GLaw-Net.
Upcoming lectures
| 31 October 2024 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Prof. Dr. Dominic Coppens | The Global Plastic Treaty negotiations: The dynamic between the EU's multilateral and internal green agenda | Click here for the abstract | Register here |
| 14 November 2024 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Dr. Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen | EU Marine Environmental Law: Building a Safe Haven for Marine Life or Getting Lost at the Sea? | Click here for the abstract | Register here |
| 28 November 2024 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Prof Dr. Martin Führ and Dr. Julian Schenten | Fake it ´till you make it: Regulatory control of chemical risks in reach | Click here for the abstract | Register here |
| 6 February 2025 4:00 - 5:30 PM | mr. dr. L.S. (Lolke) Braaksma, prof. mr. K.J. (Kars) de Graaf and prof. mr. H.D. (Hanna) Tolsma | Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control: A Critical Legal Perspective on All-inclusive Integration | Click here for the abstract | Register here |
| 20 February 2025 4:00 - 5:30 PM | Dr. Melita Carević | The EU's path to climate neutrality and the role of carbon removals | Abstract will follow soon | Register here |
| 20 March 2025 4:00 - 5:30 PM | Prof. Dr. Barbara Pozzo | Environmental Liability: the difficulties in harmonizing liability for environmental harm in the EU. | Click here for the abstract | Register here |
| 17 April 2025 4:00 - 5:30 PM | Prof. Nathalie Hervé Fournereau | Designing the future of European Water Law: Towards a European Blue Deal? | Abstract will follow soon | Register here |
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? | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
| 13 June 2024 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus | EU Energy Efficiency Law - opportunities and barriers | Click here for the recording. You can find the abstract here. |
| 19 September 2024 | Prof. Dr. An Cliquet | Make Europe wild again: International commitments and European obligations on nature conservation and restoration | Click here for the recording. Click here for the abstract |
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