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European Environmental Law Forum
The exchange platform for environmental law professionals
EELF Conference 2024 | Call prolongued to 15th May!
Sustainable Energy: Still United in Diversity? Integrating energy, climate and environmental law in times of geopolitical instability
28-31 August, Groningen, The Netherlands
The 11th EELF Conference will be hosted by the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS), Groningen University. The conference looks at legal developments towards sustainable energy in Europe, which was also the focus of the 1st EELF Conference in Groningen back in 2013. This includes manifold legal aspects of energy production, infrastructure, consumption and efficiency as well as intersections with nature conservation, water management, circular economy, product design and other relevant fields of regualtion.
Please find the call for abstracts here (open till 15th May).
Comming up: 3rd International Online Workshop for Environmental Law PhD Students
Friday 26th April 2024
This year, again, EELF co-organizes the International Online Workshop for Environmental Law PhD Students. It provides an opportunity for PhD students and doctoral candidates to present the concepts of their dissertations and discuss them with their peers and an international circle of environmental law professors and senior academics. The call is closed, presenters are selected.
Please find further information here.
EELF Conference 2023 | Thank you!
Environmental Law in Transformation - Legal Implementation and impacts of the European Green Deal
30th August - 1st September 2023 in Leipzig, Germany
The 10th - anniversiary - EELF Conference was hosted by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, and the Legal Faculty of the University of Leipzig. Many thanks to all speakers, participants, organizers and helping hands for making this conference such a great experience!
APPEARED | 7th EELF Book
Environmental Law for Transition to Sustainability
Edited by Marlon Boeve, Sanne Ackerboom, Chris Backes and Marleen von Rijswick
This book presents inspiring ideas about how law can support the fundamental transition processes to a sustainable future and how it can provide guidance on the pathways to sustainability.
Intersentia, 327 pp., ISBN 978-1-78068-929-6
Please find further information here.
NOW OPEN ACCESS!|5th EELF BOOK
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
EELF contribution to 2022 ICLG Environment & Climate Change Law
EELF board members Jerzy Jendroska, Moritz Reese and Lorenzo Squintani were, again, invited to provide a complementary contribution on behalf of the EELF to the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) on Environmental & Climate Change Laws and Regulations. This year's EELF contribution deals with
"The European Green Deal - New Horizons in Enviornmental Policy and Regulation"
The ICLG features general chapters as well as country reports from 26 jurisdictions on common issues in environment and climate change law. All contributions are available open access here.
AVAILABLE| 6th EELF Book
Environmental Loss and Damage in a Comparative Law Perspective
Edited by Barbara Pozzo and
Valentina Jacometti
Intersentia, 2021, 536 pp., ISBN 9781839700262
For more information please click here.
Open Access|4th EELF BOOK
Procedural Environmental Rights
Open Access|3rd EELF BOOK
The Effectiveness of Environmental Law
Open Access|2nd EELF BOOK
EU Environmental and Planning Law Aspects
of Large-Scale Projects