Jonathan Verschuuren

Jonathan Verschuuren is a professor of International and European Environmental law at the Tilburg Law School and the Tilburg Sustainability Center (both at Tilburg University, the Netherlands), and extraordinary professor of law at North West University, at Potchefstroom, South Africa. He has been the vice dean for research of the law school (2008-2010), and was a visiting professor at the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University Sydney in 2011.

Verschuuren's research mainly focuses on the role of international and EU environmental law in legal practice. Verschuuren has written more than 200 publications in the field on environmental law, including many articles in outstanding refereed journals throughout the world. Some of his research themes: Environmental Justice, Wild Birds and Habitats Directives, Wetlands Convention, precautionary principle, codification, globalisation and the environment, corporate social responsibility and environmental law, climate change, water law, and transboundary cooperation. He recently edited books entitled The impact of legislation (Brill, 2009) and International governance and law (Edward Elgar, 2008). His current research focus is on legal issues involved with adaptation to climate change, leading to publications such as Adaptation to Climate Change to Save Biodiversity: Lessons Learned from African and European Experiences (book chapter in Richardson et al (ed.), Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Economy, Edward Elgar 2009), and Climate Change: Rethinking Restoration in the European Union’s Birds and Habitats Directives (Ecological Restoration, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2010)).

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