Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law
The objective of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law is to ameliorate participants’ competences in European legal studies from the EU internal and external dual dimensions.
The Chair’s activities will help the target audiences to develop their learning capacities in order to take on the challenges facing the EU in its attempts to achieve sustainable, fair and resilient environmental governance.
Director
Presentation
Awareness around environmental protection related to public policies, as well as the consolidation of concepts such “sustainable development” or “environmental justice” has generated important political and social effects that require structural changes in government, and rethinking of many components of our economic model. By its very nature, both the legal system and the economic current model are largely determined by the EU policy-maker. Consequently, there is a need of qualified legal professionals who can advise governmental bodies as well as corporations and environmental NGOs. The Chair’s activities will help future professionals to develop their critical thinking capacities and their knowledge in the field it intends to cover. The Chair also provides teaching to students from other backgrounds and extends the learning activity to groups of audiences with other social science backgrounds. Indeed, the Chair also focuses in audiences who do not automatically come into contact with EU Studies and that will benefit from the EU legal knowledge beyond their immediate expertise.
The Chair also conducts research on EU subjects, based on the previous scientific relationship of the key staff and in their academic research paths. The Chair is also expected to train scholars and Ph.D. candidates to conduct independent research on EU environmental studies.
Finally, the Chair also organizes activities targeting policy makers at local, regional and national level as well as civil society to help them to acquire the necessary knowledge about the various challenges the EU environmental policy faces.
Team
Full Professor of Public International Law and EU Law at UB. Main areas of teaching and research are EU Law and European and International Environmental Law, with a focus on climate change international regime. She has led and participated in various competitive research projects and published in these areas. Fulbright Scholar at American University WCL and visiting Professor at the Universities of Ottawa, Dalhousie, Montreal, Nova Southeastern and Puerto Rico. Member of the Consolidated Research Group “Area of International Public Law”, member of the UB IdRA’s Direction Board and of the CEDAT. Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. Vice Dean in the Faculty of Law (2002-2005 and 2016-present) and Vice Rector and Deputy Vice Rector for International Policy (2005-2008) at the UB.
Dean of the Faculty of Law. Main areas of teaching and research are International Law, EU Law, International Organisations, Forest Law, and Fisheries Law. He has participated in various competitive research projects as leading researcher (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). He has been an international legal consultant for the FAO and has published numerous articles in specialized journals. At the University of Barcelona he has held management positions as Vice President (2001-2002), President of the Social, Economic and Legal Sciences Division (2002-2003), General Secretary of the University (2005-2008) and Dean (since 2016).
Certificate of the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law. Main areas of teaching and research are Public International Law and International Economic Law. He has participated in various national and international competitive research projects in these areas. Member of the Consolidated Research Group “Area of Public International Law”. He participates in the UB Observatory of Globalization. Member of the CEDAT. Visiting Professor at the Universities of National University of Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, FLACSO, São Paulo and the Doctoral School on Latin American, European and Comparative Regionalism (UNU). Co-Director of the UB Master of Laws in International Economic Law and Policy since 2016 and academic supervisor at the TradeLab Clinic Network (GIIDS of Geneva).
Certificate of the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law. Main areas of teaching and research are Public International Law and International Economic Law. He has participated in various national and international competitive research projects in these areas. Member of the Consolidated Research Group “Area of Public International Law”. He participates in the UB Observatory of Globalization. Member of the CEDAT. Visiting Professor at the Universities of National University of Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, FLACSO, São Paulo and the Doctoral School on Latin American, European and Comparative Regionalism (UNU). Co-Director of the UB Master of Laws in International Economic Law and Policy since 2016 and academic supervisor at the TradeLab Clinic Network (GIIDS of Geneva).
Main areas of teaching and research are Environmental law, Public Interest Law Litigation and Local Government. He has led and participated in various competitive research projects and published in these areas. He was an associate researcher at Harvard University in USA. Member of the Consolidated Research Group “Area of Administrative Law”, the UB Public Law Institute and of the Observatory of Environmental Policies (OPA), where he is responsible for “access to justice in environmental matters”. Member of the editorial board (section Suprem Court Case Law) in the Revista de Administración Pública. Coordinator of Administrative Law Area (2015-2016), secretary of the Administrative Law section (2016-present) and coordinator of the Environmental Law Clinic at the UB (2013-present).
Dean of the Faculty of Law. Member of the Governing Council of the International Catalan Institute for Peace. Director of the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT). Coordinator of the “Territory, Citizenship and Sustainability” Consolidated Research Group. Main researcher in various projects funded under competitive calls by regional, national and European authorities. Member of the European Environmental Law Forum Advisory Board and of the Advisory Board of the Network on Business, Conflict and Human Rights. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences and has given lectures, courses and seminars. He has coordinated numerous academic activities, including the VII National Environmental Law Conference (Tarragona, 2009) and the XII Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (Tarragona, 2014).
Main areas of teaching and research are Public International Law and International and EU Environmental Law. She has participated in various national and international competitive research projects in these areas. Member of the Consolidated Research Group on “Environmental Law, Immigration and Local Government” (CEDAT). Research fellow at Committee on Challenges of Modern Society (NATO/CCMS). Visiting researcher at Max Planck Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Center of International Environmental Law in Washington and Centre de Recherche at The Hague Academy of International Law and International Relations. Visiting Professor at Universities Federal de Santa Catarina, Estadual de Londrina, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Paraná and Autonoma de Bucaramanga. Member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and the European Society of International Law.
