Veerle Heyvaert

Veerle is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press). She is also a theme lead for the Mobilising Political, Legal, and Governance Systems theme at the Global School of Sustainability at LSE.

Background

In 1998 to 1999, Veerle was the inaugural Sir Peter North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, Oxford. She has published on issues of health and environmental law, European law and decision-making in areas of scientific uncertainty in English, Dutch and Italian.

Veerle has an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (It).

Research interests

• International environmental law and questions of compliance with international commitments;
• New developments in European environmental law;
• The reform of the EU regulatory framework for chemicals control;
• Transnational risk regulation.