Marjan Peeters

Marjan Peeters defended her Ph.D at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, in 1992. Her study concerned a legal analysis of emissions trading, and is in fact one of the first examinations about introducing emissions trading in Europe (see “Towards a European system of tradable pollution permits?”, in: Tilburg Foreign Law Review, Volume 2, nr. 2, p. 117-134, 1993 accessible through http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?did=15068).

In 1993 she joined the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Water Management, where she conducted various tasks, like issuing environmental permits, enforcement actions, developing policy documents and legislation. In 2001, she returned to the academic world, this time at Maastricht University. Since 1 April 2008 she holds the position of Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, in particular Climate Change Issues.

Marjan publishes regularly on various topics of environmental law, with a special interest in legal aspects of climate change, and market-based regulatory instruments. She leads several research projects, financed by the Dutch Scientific Research Organisation, Dutch governments, and private actors. She is a member of research group “environmental law” of the Ius Commune research school (www.iuscommune.eu), the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Environmental Law (Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht), and she initiated and leads the climate change working group of the Dutch association of environmental law. Marjan serves as a coordinator and tutor of the elective master course “International and European Environmental Law”. Furthermore, she participates in teaching projects, especially in developing countries (Indonesia).