LSE Law School has a compact but thriving team of environmental law researchers with expertise in areas from risk regulation and governance to European environmental law, climate change law and transnational law. Faculty members active in environmental law and governance research include Dr Veerle Heyvaert, Dr Stephen Humphreys and Prof Rob Baldwin. The law school offers undergraduate and graduate teaching in environmental law, as well as an LLM course focusing on climate change law, and supports a growing cohort of PhD students conducting research in environmental and climate change law. Prof Veerle Heyvaert is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transnational Environmental Law (with Thijs Etty), and all faculty members have extensive consulting experience in fields such as environmental regulation, EU environmental law, climate change and human rights. LSE Law School regularly hosts events and seminars on environmental law topics, which are accessible to a broad public including academics, practitioners and civil society representatives.
Faculty
Professor Robert Baldwin (Emeritus)
Professor Julia Black
Professor Veerle Heyvaert
Professor Stephen Humphreys
Dr Giulia Leonelli
Professor Martin Loughlin
Dr Marie Petersmann
Research students
Carly A. Krakow
Mikolaj Szafrański
Recent publications
- Stephen Humphreys 'Against future generations' 33 (4) European Journal of International Law (2022)
- Yusra Suedi 'Litigating Climate Change before the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Sacchi v. Argentina et al.: Breaking New Ground?' LSE Law School Working Paper Series 14/2022
- Siva Thambisetty Intellectual Property and Marine Genetic Resources: Navigating Articles 10-13 in the BBNJ Draft Treaty LSE Law Policy Briefing Paper 48/2022
- Veerle Heyvaert, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli (eds.) Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020)
- Stephen Humphreys 'Ungoverning the Climate' (2020) 11(3) Transnational Legal Theory
- Veerle Heyvaert 'If at first you don't succeed: suing corporations for climate change' O.J.L.S. 2018, 38(4), 841-868 (with Geetanjali Ganguly and Joana Setzer)
- Veerle Heyvaert Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance: Purpose, Strategies and Principles (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- Veerle Heyvaert European Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with Suzanne Kingston and Aleksandra Čavoški)
- Stephen Humphreys 'Climate, technology, justice,’ in A Proelss (ed.) Protecting the Environment for Future Generations: Principles and Actors in International Environmental Law. Erich Schmidt Verlag (2017)
- Stephen Humphreys'Climate change pathways and the future of human rights’ in N. Bhuta (ed.) The Futures of Human Rights. OUP (2018)
- Stephen Humphreys 'The human rights covenants in the light of anthropogenic climate change,’ in D Moeckli, and H Keller (eds.) The Human Rights Covenants: Their Past, Present, and Future. OUP (2018)
- Veerle Heyvaert 'Environmental Law' in Michael Dougan ed. The UK After Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges (Intersentia, 2017) (with Aleksandra Čavoški)
- Veerle Heyvaert 'The Transnationalisation of Law: Rethinking Law Through Transnational Environmental Regulation'Transnational Environmental Law 2017, 6(2), 205-236; first appeared in Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series 04-2016
- Robert Baldwin 'Risk regulation and transnationality: institutional accountability as a driver of innovation'Transnational Environmental Law 2014 3 (2), pp.373-390 (with Julia Black and Gerard O'Leary)
- Veerle Heyvaert 'With Reference to the Environment: The Preliminary Reference Procedure, Environmental Decisions and the Domestic Judiciary'(2014) 130 (July) LQR pp.413-442 (with Justine Thornton and Richard Drabble)
- Michèle Finck 'Above and below the surface: the status of sub-national authorities in EU climate change regulation' Journal of Environmental Law (2014) 26 (3). pp. 443-472
- Julia Black 'Risk regulation and transnationality: institutional accountability as a driver of innovation'Transnational Environmental Law 2014, 3(2), pp.373-390 (with Robert Baldwin and Gerard O'Leary)
- Veerle Heyvaert ‘What's in a Name? The Covenant of Mayors as Transnational Environmental Regulation' (pages 78–90); Vol 22(1) RECIEL (2013)
- Veerle Heyvaert 'Regulatory Competition - Accounting For the Transnational Dimension of Environmental Regulation'Journal of Environmental Law (2012) 25 (1) pp.1-31
- Julia Black and Robert Baldwin 'When risk-based regulation aims low: a strategic framework' (2012) 6 Regulation and Governance (2). pp. 131-148
- Julia Black and Robert Baldwin 'When Risk-Based Regulation Aims Low: Challenges and Approaches' (2012) 6 Regulation and Governance pp.2-22
- Veerle Heyvaert ‘Introducing Transnational Environmental Law’ (2012) 1(1) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 1-11 (with Thijs Etty)
- 'When Risk Based Regulation Aims Low: A Strategic Framework' (2012) 6 (2) Regulation and Governance 131-148 (with R. Baldwin)
- 'When Risk Based Regulation Aims Low: Challenges and Approaches' (2012) 6 (1) Regulation and Governance 1-21 (with R. Baldwin)