First Keynote Speakers Confirmed

First Keynote Speakers Confirmed

We are delighted to announce that we will be joined in Joensuu by Liz Fisher (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Louis Kotzé (North-West University, South Africa), and Josephine van Zeben (Wageningen University, The Netherlands).

Liz Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She is author of many books and articles on environmental law and administrative law including Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (2007) and Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law (2020)(with Sid Shapiro) which both won awards. She was General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law 2012-22. She is currently working on a three year research project on legal imagination and environmental problems.

Josephine van Zeben is Professor and Chair of the Law Group at Wageningen University (WUR, the Netherlands). She is also a visiting professor at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), co-editor-in-chief of Transnational Environmental Law, and board member of several associations, such as the Society for Environmental Law and Economics. Her research focusses on the regulation of environmental issues by public and private actors across jurisdictions, specifically through transnational environmental law, with particular attention for polycentric governance theory, and developments related to the European Union. She is research lead of the Law Group’s program “Law for the Living Environment”. Her research also draws on her teaching of law to non-law students and lawyers from foreign jurisdictions by actively searching for optimal ways of analysing complex legal and societal problems so as to facilitate interdisciplinary solutions.

Louis Kotzé is Research Professor of Law at North-West University, South Africa, and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln. His research focuses on law and the Anthropocene, global environmental constitutionalism, and earth system law. A former Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, he is the current Programme Chair of The New Institute’s Future of Democracy Programme.