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ECKARD REHBINDER

PROF., DR. JUR.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS

email Rehbinder@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

Primary Research Interests

  • Biodiversity law
  • Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
  • Pollution & toxics control

Secondary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Energy law
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)

Selected Publications

  • Promises and risks of biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants and animals, 2007.
  • "The role of the judiciary and environmental governance: Comparative perspectives (Germany)", in Deketaere, Kotzé & Paterson, Judiciary and environmental governance (forthcoming) (33 pp.)
  • "Germany", in Ebbeson, Access to Environmental Matters in the EU, 2002, p. 231-59; 3.
  • "Low Doses in Health-Related Environmental Law", in Streffer et al., Low Dose Exposures in the Environment, 2004, ch. 10, pp. 325-77.
  • "Law of Hazardous Substances", in Hansmann & Sellner, Grundzüge des Umweltrechts, 2007, ch. 11, pp. 763-862.