Making EU Nature Law More Effective
Professor Suzanne Kingston, PI on this project, has published an insightful paper in Revue Européenne du Droit. The paper summarises Effective Nature Law's work over the past 5 years, mapping the evolution and effectiveness of [...]
ENGOs in the Netherlands: Access to Justice from an empirical perspective
One of the main purposes of the Aarhus Convention is to promote a wide access to justice in environmental matters for Environmental NGOs, with the aim of improving the enforcement of environmental laws. Based on qualitative [...]
Of the People, by the People, for the People ? Th e European Union ’ s Experience with Private Environmental Regulation and Enforcement
Delighted to announce that team members Professor Kingston, PI, and Edwin Alblas have completed the publication of 'Of the people, by the people, for the people? Private environmental enforcement in the EU. In: de Cock [...]
Policy Makers Handbook – Effective Nature Laws
It was with huge pride that we introduced the results of our 5-year empirical study, funded by the European Research Council, examining the effectiveness of the EU’s nature governance laws in three Member States over [...]
The Comparative Nature Governance Index – Methods and Data.
See further, Kingston, S., Wang, Z., Alblas, E., Callaghan, M., Foulon, J., Lima, V. and Murphy, G, "The Democratisation of European Nature Governance 1992 - 2015: Introducing the Comparative Nature Governance Index", forthcoming in [...]
Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication 'Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further' in the next issue of Regulation and Governance. Professor Suzanne Kingston, Edwin Alblas, Mícheál Callaghan and [...]
Effective Nature Laws Event 12th November 2021
Effective Nature Laws - Closing Event (online) 12th November 2021 We are delighted to announce that on 12th November 2021 from 10-11am the Effective Nature Laws team will present its research findings. You are [...]
The incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland: the effects of social capital and job searching methods
We are delighted to announce that team member, Dr. Zizhen Wang, ERC postdoctoral researcher, has published a paper in Irish Educational Studies. Drawing from research carried out for his PhD, Dr. Wang's study investigates how [...]
Unfolding the Private–Public Dynamics of Regulation
Professor Suzanne Kingston (ERC Project leader) and Edwin Alblas (ERC researcher and PhD candidate) have published a chapter in 'Private Regulation and Enforcement in the EU: Finding the Right Balance from a Citizen’s Perspective.' Of [...]
Recognition and implementation of ecological damage in French tort law
Huge congratulations to ERC researcher and PhD candidate Julie Foulon who has published an article in the prestigious Environmental Law Review journal. Julie's article analyzes the innovations and challenges of the recent provision to address [...]
Of the people, by the people, for the people?
We are delighted that team members Prof. Suzanne Kingston (project leader) and ERC researcher and PhD candidate Edwin Alblas have co-authored a chapter which is due to be published in L. Senden & M. de Cock [...]
Environmental Law and Enforcement: Emerging Challenges
On the 25th of November, Edwin Alblas presented at the EPA/ICEL conference on 'Environmental Law and Enforcement: Emerging Challenges'. This conference, co-organized by the EPA and the Irish Center for European Law, saw a range [...]
Advanced Legal Research Workshop by Zizhen Wang
Our ERC postdoc Dr. Zizhen Wang gave a workshop in UCD Sutherland School of Law on Wednesday October 23rd as part of the Advanced Legal Research module, introducing quantitative methods into legal research. It is [...]
Edwin Alblas published in Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
We are thrilled to announce that PhD candidate and Effective Nature Laws project researcher, Edwin Alblas, has published a book review in the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law. Edwin's article reviews 'Transnational [...]
Environmental Law and Policy
Julie Foulon, PhD candidate and researcher with the Effective Nature Laws project is teaching two modules on "Environmental Law and Policy," with Dr. Andrew Jackson in UCD's Sutherland School of Law. The modules are offered [...]
Enforcing European Union Environmental Law
On Friday October 18th, Prof. Suzanne Kingston participated in the Enforcing European Union Environmental Law conference in University College Cork, hosted by the Center for Law and the Environment at UCC. The conference explored critical topics [...]
“Sustainability and Competition Policy: Bridging two Worlds to Enable a Fairer Economy”
Prof. Suzanne Kingston will be participating in a conference “Sustainability and Competition Policy: Bridging two Worlds to Enable a Fairer Economy” in Brussels, Thursday October 24th. The conference will examine the connection between competition law [...]
Team Field Trip to the Netherlands
From 26-28 June, the bi-annual ‘Land & Tuinbouwbeurs Oost Nederland’ (Agricultural convention East Netherlands) took place in Bathmen, NL. Four Dutch members of our team participated in the event to carry out surveys and interviews [...]
Constitutional Law in France
We are delighted that a member of our team, Julie Foulon, researcher and PhD scholar, has published a co-authored book “Constitutional Law in France." This is a significant achievement for a PhD student and early-career [...]
Salon de l’Agriculture: Team Field Trip 2019
Four members of the Effective Nature Laws team attended the 2019 Salon de l’Agriculture de Nouvelle Aquitaine, the second biggest agricultural festival in France, to complete surveys and interviews with French farmers. As the project [...]
Dutch Coder’s Meeting
On November 30th, 2018, Dr. Zizhen Wang (ENL postdoctorate research fellow) and Edwin Alblas (ENL Ph.D. candidate) organized a Dutch coder’s group meeting in UCD Sutherland School of Law to discuss how to quantify [...]
The Emergence of an Enhanced Duty to Give Reasons for Administrative Decisions
Professor Suzanne Kingston participated in the fourth panel of the first annual Irish Supreme Court Review, where she presented her paper: '“Mallak-Plus”: The Emergence of an Enhanced Duty to Give Reasons in Connelly v An [...]
Edwin Alblas published in European Union Politics
We are delighted that a member of our team, Edwin Alblas, PhD scholar, has published his article "The Court of Justice and Treaty Revision: A Case of Strategic Leniency?" in European Union Politics. This [...]
More Democracy Please? Reflections on the Democratic Turn in European Environmental Enforcement
Professor Suzanne Kingston delivered the keynote lecture, ‘More Democracy Please? Reflections on the Democratic Turn in European Environmental Enforcement’, which was part of the Environmental Law stream, at the 108th Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Conference. [...]
Professor Kingston wins ‘Champion of EU Research’ Award
John Halligan T.D., Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development with Julie Sinnamon, CEO of Enterprise Ireland presented Professor Suzanne Kingston with an outstanding achievement award to acknowledge her reaching the pinnacle [...]
Effective Nature Law researcher Edwin Alblas reaches National PhD “Making an Impact” finals
We wish to congratulate our colleague, Edwin Alblas, PhD scholar, for reaching the finals of the National PhD “Making an Impact” competition. This competition, organized by the Higher Education Authority and the Irish Independent, challenges [...]
Making Nature Count – 4th October 2016
Three members of the Effective Nature Laws team attended the Irish Forum on Natural Capital Conference, ‘Making Nature Count’ in the National Concert Hall last Tuesday, 4th of October 2016. Speakers at the conference hailed [...]
The ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance – Wednesday, 29th of June 2016
Last week, Geraldine Murphy had the pleasure of presenting work from the Effective Nature Laws project at the Sixth Biennial Conference of The Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research [...]
Geary Institute Presentation – 27th April 2016
As an interdisciplinary project – namely one that combines issues relating to environmental law with socio-economic methodologies – it seems fitting that the Effective Nature Laws team presented their work at the Geary Institute for [...]
Effective Nature Laws Workshop – 29th April 2016
On Friday, 29th of April, Effective Nature Laws hosted a methodology workshop in the UCD Sutherland School of Law, the aims of which were to stimulate debate and to gain feedback on the project’s theoretical [...]
The Garret FitzGerald Autumn School – 19 October 2015
On the 19th of October, the Garret FitzGerald Autumn School took place in UCD to mark the launch of the new School of Social Sciences and Law. The theme of the Autumn School was ‘The [...]
Welcome to Our New Website!
We are delighted to launch our new website for the Effective Nature Laws project based in UCD. We will keep you updated with the latest news from the project and look forward to hearing any [...]