David Langlet

Now a professor of environmental law at Uppsala, I have previously held positions as, inter alia, professor of ocean governance law at the University of Gothenburg and research fellow at Oxford University and Christchurch.

My research has touched on a wide range of topics in the fields of environmental law, climate and energy law, and law of the sea.

I am the editor of the Nordic Environmental Law Journal (NELJ), and coordinator of the Joint Nordic Master's Programme in Environmental Law.

Academic degrees

LLD (Doctor of Laws) in Environmental law from Stockholm University 2007 with the dissertation ’Prior Informed Consent and Hazardous Trade: Regulating Trade in Hazardous Goods at the Intersection of Sovereignty, Free Trade and Environmental Protection’. Faculty examiner: Professor Günther Handl, Tulane University Law School.

Reader (docent) in environmental law at Stockholm University 2010

Academic posts

Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, 2021-

Professor of Ocean Governance Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2015-2021.

Senior lecturer (full time) in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University 2012-2015 (on leave 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014).

From 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014 Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Christ Church.

Visiting senior lecturer in Environmental Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University 2010 (part time) and 2011 (full time).

Researcher at the Department of Law (part time), School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2009 – 2010.

Acting senior lecturer (part time) at the Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg 2008 – 2010.

Visiting senior lecturer (part time) in Environmental Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University 2007-2008.

Assignments and memberships

Member of the Editorial Board of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (YIEL), 2025 –

Editor of the Nordic Environmental Law Journal (NELJ), 2023 –

Coordinator of the Nordic Master’s Programme in Environmental Law (NOMPEL), 2022 –

Member of the board of the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, 2013 –

Member of the international jury of the Elisabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law, 2014-2016.

Coordinator of the focus area Marine governance within the Maritime Cluster of West Sweden, 2015-2019.

Member of the steering committee of the Swedish Mariculture Research Center (SWEMARC) at Gothenburg University, 2016 – 2022.

PI within Centre for Collective Action Research (CeCAR) at Gothenburg University, 2017- 2022

Chair of the Working Group on Balancing Economic, Social and Ecological Objectives (WGBESEO) within the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) 2020 – 2022.

Member of the Academic Appointments Board at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, 2018-2021.

Appointed as expert to ‘Miljömålsberedningen’ [Parliamentary Committee on Sweden's environmental objectives] 2019-2020.

Evaluator of research proposals for, among others, The Research Council of Norway, The Icelandic Research Fund, and The Academy of Finland.

Member of examination board at public PhD defense:

• Melina Malafry (Biodiversity Protection in an Aspiring CarbonNeutral Society), Uppsala University, 9 December 2016.
• Peter Gottschalk (Building the Nagoya Protocol Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing: Institutional Design and Effectiveness) Lund University, 15 May 2018.
• Bianca Koroschetz (Exploring the (re)configuration of environmentally unsustainable practices: Antifouling in the Baltic Sea) Gothenburg University, 5 June 2019.

Faculty examiner at public PhD defense:

• Johanna Söderasp (‘Law in Integrated and Adaptive Governance of Freshwaters A Study of the Swedish Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive’), Luleå University of Technology, 7 December 2018
• Hermanni Backer Johnsen (‘The HELCOM Ecosystem Approach: time for quantification, integration, and measures’) Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, 14 December 2020.
• Linda Finska (‘Confronting the Global Plastics Problem Threatening the Marine Environment – A Framework and Elements of an International Legal Response’), UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 3 September 2021 (second opponent).
• Aljosa Noga (‘The Tragedy of the Global Commons in Public International Law’), Örebro University, 28 October 2022.
• Oskar Johansson (‘Waste or Resource – The Function of Waste Law in a Circular Economy’), Luleå University of Technology, 29 Novmber 2024.
• Monirul Azam (‘Closing the Gaps to the LDCs − Technology Transfer under International Law on Climate Change and Intellectual Property’), Stockholm University, 22 January 2025.

PhD supervision

Completed

Deputy supervisor for Brita Bohman’s thesis ‘Transboundary Law for Social-Ecological Resilience?’. Defended Feb 2017 at Stockholm University.

Deputy supervisor for Gabriela Arguello Moncayo’s thesis ’Environmentally Sound Management – Its status and role in the sea-land interface regulation of wastes)’. Defended June 2018 at Gothenburg University.

Supervisor for Aron Westholm’s thesis ‘Scaling Marine and Water Management’. Defended June 2021 at Gothenburg University.

Supervisor for Niels Krabbe’s thesis ’Bioprospecting and deep-sea genetic resources in a fragmenting international law’. Defended June 2021 at Gothenburg University.

Deputy supervisor for Lena Schøning’s thesis ‘A Critical Assessment of the Contribution of Integrated Ocean Management to Protection of the Marine Environment’. Defended Aug. 2021 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Supervisor for Jonas Kyrönviita’s thesis ‘Odla fisk rätt - en systemanalytisk undersökning av den rättsliga styrningen av svenskt vattenbruk’ [Grow fish the right way - a system-analytical investigation of the legal governance of Swedish aquaculture). Defended September 2022 at Gothenburg University.

Ongoing

Deputy supervisor for Mathilda Morel (‘The Role of Law in a Sustainable Transition of the Norwegian Aquaculture Sector’), UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Supervisor for Leonard Örner (‘Strandskydd - En rättsvetenskaplig studie av det svenska systemet för reglering av strandområden’ [Shoreline protection – a legal study of the Swedish system for the protection of shorelines]), Uppsala University.

Supervisor for Larissa Dietz (‘European offshore wind promotion - A comparative analysis of the laws and funding measures of Europe’s pioneering states in wind: the UK, Germany, and Sweden’), Uppsala University.