Marleen van Rijswick is professor of European and Dutch Water Law and is director of Utrecht Universty Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law. (see http://ucwosl.rebo.uu.nl/). She researches the question how law can contribute to a sustainable and equitable use of water based on shared responsibilities. She works in a multidimensional and multidisciplinary way and is interested in comparative research. Her research focus on water law within the broader field of environmental law, spatial planning law, nature conservation law and European and constitutional and administrative law. Research topic are protection against flooding, improving water quality, protection and a fair share of fresh water resources, and urban water management. She participates in the Water Governance Initiative of the OECD and contributed to the development of the OECD Principles on Water Governance. She was visiting professor European environmental law for several years at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in Paris, and in the master Energy, Environmental and Climate Law at the University of Malta. In 2015 she was visiting professor international and European environmental law at the Research Institute of Environmental Law of Wuhan University, China and in 2018 at the Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. She published in many international and national journals and books, and amongst others she was main author (together with H.J.M. Havekes) of 'European and Dutch Water Law'. She is substitute member of the 'College van Beroep voor het hoger onderwijs' and substitute judge at the district court of Oost-Brabant.

 

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Chair
European and Dutch water law
Inaugural lecture date
05.06.2008