Directory of Scholars
JAAP SPIER
Prof. Dr
Attorney-General in the Supreme Court/honorary Professor
Primary Research Interests
- Climate change law
- Enforcement & compliance issues
- Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
- Human rights & the environment
- Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
Secondary Research Interests
- Corporate environmental responsibility
- Environmental ethics & justice
- International environmental law
Selected Publications
- Inconvenient questions: causation and the eradication of poverty and climate change, in Lubos Tichy (ed.), Causation in law p. 69 ff; Eva Rozkotová (2007)
- The rule of law and judicial activism: obstacles for shaping the law to meet the demands of a civilized society, particularly in relation to climate change, in Michael Faure and André van der Walt (ed.), Globalization and Private Law, Edward Elgar (2010) pp. 426 ff
- Legal aspects of global climate change and sustainable development, InDret 2/2006 346 Can the law play a role to stem the tide in relation to climate change, China Environment Law Review 2010 pp. 13 ff
- In Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters (ed.), Climate change liability (2011) High noon: prevention of climate change damage a the primary goal of liability pp. 47 ff
- The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea: Liability for mismanagement and fraud and a call for a serious debate on truly fundamental issues, in Essays on Tort, Insurance, Law and Society in Honour of Bill W. Dufwa, Jure Förlag AB 2006 pp. 426 ff