Due diligence legislation versus trade policy

The EU’s inconsistent approach towards sustainability treaties

Sustainable development in India’s FTAs

Is India’s historical protectionism towards its European counterparts making way for a 'greener shade' of trade agreements?

Lean, clean, and green?

An appraisal of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s green approach to infrastructure projects. How environmentally sustainable is infrastructure development?

Non-state actors and the fight for a sustainable future in a ‘neo-colonial’ investment system?

There is a need for a wholesale change to tackle the inherent imbalance, which harmfully impacts the environment and human rights.

Reforming Technical and Financial Assistance for Environmental Protection: The Challenge of Plastic Pollution in the Ocean

Managing plastic waste is one of the biggest problems we face today, the severity and urgency of which is increasing. How can legal reforms, especially technical and financial assistance, address this?

Time to level the playing field of multilateral trade: Rethinking the “differential” in Special and Differential Treatment

Sustainability in space

Space is becoming more contested, congested, competitive, and contaminated. How to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities, so present and future generations can use and explore it indefinitely?

The unresolved issue of dolly rope on Dutch beaches

Beaches are littered with dolly rope, a serious threat to our environment and wildlife. Will the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive and international obligations force the Netherlands to ban dolly rope in the near future?

Children at the Forefront of Environmental Protection - Children’s Rights and the Environment

In honour of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize winner, the Child Law Department of Leiden Law School produced a research report on children’s rights and the environment - Cleaning up the Mess- Children’s Rights and Environmental Protection.