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Heyvaert, Veerle

Dr Veerle Heyvaert  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Associate Professor in Law

 

Experience keywords:

European Union law; environmental law; risk regulation

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Current research interest cover international environmental law and questions of compliance with international commitments, new developments in European environmental law, and in particular the reform of the EU regulatory framework for chemicals control.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Environment; Law; Policy and Regulatory Bodies; Risk Management

Countries and regions to which research relates:

EU

Languages:

Dutch [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6492

LSE email:

v.heyvaert@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2016

Heyvaert, Veerle (2016) The transnationalisation of law: rethinking law through transnational environmental regulation LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers, Working Paper No. 04/2016 . London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law, London, UK.

2014

Heyvaert, Veerle and Thornton, Justine and Drabble, Richard (2014) With reference to the environment: the preliminary reference procedure, environmental decisions and the domestic judiciary Law Quarterly Review, 130. 413-442. ISSN 0023-933X

2013

Heyvaert, Veerle (2013) Regulatory competition: accounting for the transnational dimension of environmental regulation Journal of Environmental Law, 25 (1). 1-31. ISSN 0952-8873

Heyvaert, Veerle (2013) What's in a name? The covenant of mayors as transnational environmental regulation Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), 22 (1). 78-90. ISSN 0962-8797

2012

Heyvaert, Veerle and Etty, Thijs (2012) Introducing transnational environmental law Transnational Environmental Law, 1 (1). 1-11. ISSN 2047-1025

2011

Heyvaert, Veerle (2011) Aarhus to Helsinki: participation in environmental decision-making on chemicals In: Pallemaerts, Marc, (ed.) The Aarhus Convention at Ten: Interactions and Tensions Between Conventional International Law and Eu Environmental Law. Europa Law Publishing, 189-212. ISBN 9789089520487

Heyvaert, Veerle (2011) Governing climate change: towards a new paradigm for risk regulation Modern Law Review, 74 (6). 817-844. ISSN 0026-7961

2010

Heyvaert, Veerle (2010) Regulating chemical risk: REACH in a global governance perspective In: Eriksson, Johan and Gilek, Michael and Rudén, Christina, (eds.) Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 217-238. ISBN 9789048194278

Heyvaert, Veerle (2010) Europe in a climate of risk: three paradigms at play Law, Society, Economy Working Papers, WPS 06-2010 . Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2009

Heyvaert, Veerle (2009) Hybrid norms in international law LSE law, society and economy working papers, 06-2009. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Heyvaert, Veerle (2009) Globalizing regulation: reaching beyond the borders of chemical safety Journal of Law and Society, 36 (1). 110-128. ISSN 0263-323X

Heyvaert, Veerle (2009) Levelling down, levelling up, and governing across: three responses to hybridization in international law European Journal of International Law, 20 (3). 647-674. ISSN 0938-5428

2008

Heyvaert, Veerle (2008) The EU's chemicals policy: towards inclusive governance? In: Vos, Ellen, (ed.) European Risk Governance: Its Science, Its Inclusiveness and Its Effectiveness. CONNEX report series (6). CONNEX - Network of Excellence, Mannheim, Germany, 185-221.

Heyvaert, Veerle (2008) The EU chemicals policy: towards inclusive governance? LSE law, society and economy working papers, 07-2008. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2007

Heyvaert, Veerle (2007) No data, no market. The future of EU chemicals control under the REACH Regulation Environmental Law Review, 9 (3). 201-206. ISSN 1461-4529

2006

Heyvaert, Veerle (2006) Codificazione ed accentramento: un punto di vista Inglese In: De Carolis, Diego and Ferrari, Erminio and Police, Aristide, (eds.) Ambiente, Attivita' Amministrativa e Codificazione. Pubblicazioni dell'Associazione italiana di diritto urbanistico (10). Giuffre, Milano, Italia, 41-56. ISBN 9788814122903

Heyvaert, Veerle (2006) Overleven in het Europees gemeenschapsrecht: het voorzorgsbeginsel tussen integratie en identiteitsverlies Sew Tijdschrift Voor Europees En Economisch Recht, 78. 306-315. ISSN 0165-098X

Heyvaert, Veerle (2006) Guidance without constraint: assessing the impact of the precautionary principle on the European Community's chemicals policy In: Etty, Thijs F. M., (ed.) Yearbook of European Environmental Law. Yearbook of European environmental law (6). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 27-60. ISBN 9780199289271

Heyvaert, Veerle (2006) Facing the consequences of the precautionary principle in European Community law European Law Review, 31 (2). 185-206. ISSN 0307-5400

2005

Heyvaert, Veerle (2005) Codification and centralisation in the UK environmental law Rivista Italiana di diritto Pubblico Comunitario, 15 (5). 1335-1350. ISSN 1121-404X

2003

Heyvaert, Veerle (2003) Wie wordt er wijzer van. Enige bedenkingen bij het recht op toegang tot milieu-informatie In: Larssen, Christine, (ed.) Dix Ans D’access a L’information En Matiere D’environnment En Droit International, Europeen et Interne: Bilan et Perspectives. Bruylant, Brussels, Belgium, 17-33. ISBN 9782802717201

2001

Heyvaert, Veerle (2001) Balancing trade and the environment in the European Union: proportionality substituted? Journal of Environmental Law, 13 (3). 392-407. ISSN 0952-8873

2000

Breyer, Stephen and Heyvaert, Veerle (2000) Institutions for regulating risk In: Revesz, Richard L. and Sands, Philippe and Stewart, Richard B., (eds.) Environmental Law, the Economy and Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 283-352. ISBN 9780521642705

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Veerle Heyvaert is a Senior Lecturer in Law. She teaches environmental law and European law. She has an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (It). In 1998-1999, she was the inaugural Sir Peter North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, Oxford. She has published extensively on issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation, including recent articles on the emergence of hybrid norms in the European Journal of International Law (2009) and the globalisation of chemicals regulation in the Journal of Law and Society (2009).

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