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Dr Marta Kołacz, LLM (M.K.)

Research profile

I work on legal and regulatory solutions for smart and sustainable transport and logistics. I obtained my Doctor of Law degree with the thesis about legal aspects of cooperative logistics ('Sharing economy in logistics. Towards a legal framework for co-operation) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and University of Antwerp, Belgium (double degree). 

Furthermore, I conducted my research projects at several European Universities thanks to the obtained research grants. At the University of Brno, Czech Republic I worked on the project: “Blockchain for More Sustainable Carriage of Goods – Legal aspects of involving blockchain for environmentally-friendly transport” (thanks to the Visegrad grant). At the University of Rouen Normandie, France I worked on the project: “Carbon Free Last Mile Delivery – legal and technological perspectives” (thanks to Marie Skłodowska-Curie co-fund grant). I was also a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds where I worked on the competition law aspects of co-operation contracts in logistics (thanks to Erasmus + grant).

I am interested in legal aspects of data sharing in logistics, sustainable logistics in smart cities, and sustainable supply and delivery chains.

Other publications
  1. M.K. Kołacz, ‘Enforcing green standards in the context of economic dispersal – the example of last-mile deliveries’ 2 European Transport Law (2024)
  2. M.K. Kołacz, CHAPTER 4 Co-operation between manufacturers and distributors for sustainable freight –select legal obstacles posed by laws oriented to individual parties in Ellen J. Eftestøl, Anu Bask, and Maximilian Huemer (eds), Towards a Zero-Emissions and Digitalized Transport Sector: Law, Regulation, and Logistics (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) [forthcoming].
  3. W. Verheyen, M.K. Kołacz, ‘Enhancing safety in B2c delivery chains’ (2022) 117 Transport Policy 12-22; 
  4. M.K. Kołacz, A. Quintavalla, O. Yalnazov, ‘Who Should Regulate Disruptive Technology?’ (2019) 10(1) European Journal of Risk Regulation 4-22;
  5. M.K. Kołacz & G. Hopster, ‘When Technology takes the Wheel Is the CMR ready to meet the demand for Autonomous Transportation?’ (2017) European Journal of Commercial Contract Law 2017-1/2, 41-48.