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

Background<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Veerle has an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (It).<\/p>\n

Research interests<\/h3>\n
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  • International environmental law and questions of compliance with international commitments;<\/li>\n
  • New developments in European environmental law;<\/li>\n
  • The reform of the EU regulatory framework for chemicals control;<\/li>\n
  • Transnational risk regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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