Prof Dr Marjan Peeters (M.)

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Marjan Peeters holds the position of Professor of Environmental Policy and Law since April 2008. Marjan started in 1987 with studying environmental law. Since then, she has been focusing on understanding how a high level of environmental protection can be effectively and efficiently reached based on the rule of law and in the context of sustainable development. Core research attention goes to legal aspects of climate change, regulatory instruments for emission reduction, enironmental procedural rights, and the way how law deals with uncertain risks. 

Marjan has co-edited several books, among which the `Research Handbook on EU Environmental Law' (2020), co-edited with Mariolina Eliantonio, and `Climate Change Law' (2016), co-edited with Daniel A Farber. Since September  2022, Marjan takes part to the Greendeal-NET project: GreenDealnet | Homepage | GreenDealnet.eu 

She is responsible for organising the free lecture series "Strengthening EU environmental law: Legal perspectives on Greening Europe" Environmental Law Lecture Series - Events - Maastricht University

All publications by Marjan can be found here  ( Dutch and English publications).

Marjan leads the courses “European Environmental Law” (master) and “Global Environmental Law) master at Maastricht University.  Marjan is a member of Maastricht Centre of European Law; of the Institute for Transnational Legal Research (Metro), of the Ius Commune Research School, and several other organisations such as the European Environmental Law Forum.