Jan Darpö
Professor Professor emer. at Department of Law; Guests and Others
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 22 47
- E-mail:
- Jan.Darpo@jur.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Munken 1, Trädgårdsgatan 20
SE-75309 Uppsala
Sweden - Postal address:
- Box 512
751 20 UPPSALA
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Jan Darpö is professor of environmental law. His research focuses on environmental procedure, water law and nature conservation. He was visiting professor at the University of Minnesota (2008) and UNSW in Sydney (2012). Since 2008, he is chair of the Task Force on Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention. He is a member of the Avosetta Group and EELFs Advisory Board. He has been assigned as an expert by the Commission and several research institutes.
Publishing webpage: www.jandarpo.se
Biography
LL.M. 1991
LL.D. 2001
Associate professor 2002
Senior lecturer 2004
Professor 2011
Internal assignments
Member of the research council of Faculty of law/Uppsala Universitet, 2005-2008.
Coordinator of the research-programme ENFORCE (Enforcing Environmental Law in Europe), funded by the Swedish Environmental Agency, 2004-2010.
Coordinator of the research programme “Combining sustainable biodiversity and human activities in the Swedish archipelago”, funded by Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning FORMAS), 2008-
Coordinator of the research program “Laws and Claws: A Dialogue between Law and Ecology”, funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 2014-2017
Coordinator of the research programme PROSPEC (Protection of species in environmental decision-making processes), funded by Naturvårdsverket, 2017-2019
Member of the Evaluation Committee for doctoral applications (2012-)
External assignment
Expert in several Governmental Commissions: Implementation of the EU Directive on Environmental Liability (M 2004:4; 2005-2007), Environmental Procedure (M 2007:4; 2007-2009), Industrial emissions (M 2010:07; 2010-2011)
International evaluator for the research-institute IWT/Flanders under the Flemish government (2006), d:o for the research-institute Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Dutch government (2012)
Senior adviser in EU Conformity Study of measures of Member States to transpose Directives on Information and Public Participation in Environmental Matters (2008), Swedish rapporteur for Conformity Study on the EU Member States’ Implementation of the Habitats Directive to the European Parliament (2009)
Chairman of the UNECEs Task Force on Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (www.unece.org/env/pp), 2008-2011, 2011-2014, 2014-…
Assigned by the European Commission to supervise and lead the Study on factual aspects of access to justice in relation to EU environmental law in the Member States of the EU and to write the synthesis report on the matter, 2012-2013
Reviewer of the EU Commission's Guidance on access to justice in environmental matters, 2016
Member of the Avosetta Group of Environmental Law Professors, 2015-
Lecturing etc
Opening speaker at the yearly “Environmental Law Meeting” since 2005.
Lecturer at the National Courts Administration’s education for judges and technicians in the environmental courts 2001-2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011/12, 2014-.
Key note speaker (“co-referent”) at the seminar on Environmental Democracy at the 38th Nordic Lawyers Meeting in Copenhagen 21–23 August 2008.
Guest professor in the fall semester of 2008 at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis.
Presentation at the conference for NEEL (Network for European Environmental Lawyers) that the Ministry of the Environment organized for civil servants from EU member states as part of the Swedish chairmanship, December 2009.
Address to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry and Trade about the Governments considerations on the permissibility according to the Environmental Code, March 2010.
Visiting Professorial Fellow at Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, September-November 2012.
Address to the Ministry of the Environment on Environmental Procedure, March 2013
Key note speaker at international conferences in Geneva (Switzerland), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Belgrade (Serbia), Pristina (Kosovo), Osaka (Japan), Wroclaw (Poland), Vienna (Austria), Guangzhou and Kunming (China), Gent and Maastricht, Torino, London, Paris and Bremen; 2008-2016
Academic assignments
Opponent: Christina Hörnberg Lindgren: “Miljökonsekvensbeskrivningar som rättsligt verktyg för hållbar utveckling” (Environmental Impact Assessment as a legal instrument for sustainable development). Doctoral thesis at Faculty of Law, Umeå University, 2005-05-20
Opponent: Maria Pettersson: “Legal preconditions for wind power implementation in Sweden and Denmark”. Licentiate thesis at Luleå University of Technology, 2006-03-01
Member of examination board: Helena du Rées: “Miljöbrott, myndighet och marknad” (Environmental crime, the authorities and the market). Doctoral thesis at the department of Criminology at Stockholm University, 2004-10-04.
Supervisor for Annika K Nilsson (dissertation in administrative law 2012), Michael Ajneståhl (species and area protection), Yaffa Epstein (species protection, licentiate thesis 2013), Agnes Eklund (environmental procedure) and Jason Czarnezki (public procurement), co-supervisor for Melina Malafry (energy law)
Pedagogical examiner for Minna Gräns in her application to become professor at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala universitet, 2014
Member of examination board: Henrik Josefsson: “Good Ecological Status. Advancing the Ecology of Law”. Doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala Universitet, 2015-05-13
Opponent: Lars Bäckström: Svensk gruvrätt. En rättsvetenskaplig studie rörande förutsättningarna för utvinning av mineraler. Doctoral thesis, Luleå University of Technology, 2016-01-28Research areas
Environmental procedure and access to justice, harmonization of environmental legislation, nature conservation and species protection, EIA/IPPC/IED permit regimes, remediation of contaminated land, water law…
Publications
Recent publications
- The Last Say? (2020)
- Anything Goes, but. . . (2019)
- Pulling the trigger (2018)
- Principle 10 and Access to Justice (2018)
- Bara en liten skalbagge i en polsk skog? (2018)
All publications
Articles
- The Last Say? (2020)
- Anything Goes, but. . . (2019)
- Bara en liten skalbagge i en polsk skog? (2018)
- Hitta vilse i skogen (2017)
- Hitta vilse i skogen (2017)
- 第10原則と司法アクセス (Dai 10 Gensoku to Shihou Akusesu) (2017)
- On the Bright Side (of the EU’s Janus Face) (2017)
- Klaga inte på vargen..! (2017)
- Book review: de Sadeleer: EU Environmental Law and the Internal Market. (2016)
- The Commission: a sheep in wolf’s clothing? On infringement proceedings as a legal device for the enforcement of EU law on the environment, using Swedish wolf management as an example. (2016)
- Karin och Susannes glädje, Lars-Anders sorg..? (2016)
- Vindkraft, fåglar och brister i höjden. (2015)
- Thrown to the Wolves (2015)
- Vargen och domstolscirkusen 1-3. (2014)
- Article 9.2 of the Aarhus Convention and EU law. Some remarks on CJEUs case law on access to justice in environmental decision-making. (2014)
- Med lagstiftaren på åskådarplats (2014)
- Ärna flygplats - försvar med charter? (2014)
- Med lagstiftaren på åskådarplats (2014)
- Tradition och förnyelse på vattenrättens område. Om mötet mellan gamla tillståndsregimer och moderna miljökrav. (2014)
- Jan Darpö: Så förändrar Bungedomen svensk miljörätt (2013)
- Allmänna och enskilda intressen. (2013)
- Rätten att klaga på miljöbeslut i EU-rättslig belysning (2013)
- Rätten att klaga på miljöbeslut i EU-rättslig belysning (2013)
- The Wild Has No Words (2013)
- Bunge-täkten och EU-rätten. (2012)
- EU-rätten och den processuella autonomin på miljöområde (2012)
- Kriterierna för svenska miljöorganisationers talerätt (2010)
- On the Comparison of Environmental Law (2010)
- Miljöprövningen i vågskålen – landskampen mellan Finland och Sverige (2009)
- Mera om mobilmaster (2008)
- Natura 2000 i Sverige II (2008)
- Natura 2000 i Sverige I (2008)
- Botniabanan; slutpunkten som blev frågetecken (2008)
- Slut på följetongen om miljösanktionsavgifterna? (2008)
- Förvaringsfallen – ett uttunnat begrepp (2007)
- Regeringen bestämmer över Botniabanan. (2006)
- Ett talande beslut (2005)
- Ett evigt tillstånd? (2005)
- Många turer kring Botniabanan (2005)
- BRIAN JONES & NEIL PARPWORTH: Environmental liabilities. Shaw & Sons, UK 2004, 664 s.) (2005)
- Vem får överklaga i miljömål? (2004)
- Miljörätt och europakonventionen (2003)
- Miljövårdskraven i tiden I-II (2001)
- Administrative fines and the european convention of human rights (2001)
- The new contaminated land regime in Sweden: Features and principles. (2000)
- Verksamhetsutövare, markägare och konkursbon i miljöbalken. (2000)
- Book review: Legal aspects of soil pollution and decontamination in the EU member states and the United States. (2000)
- Om ansvaret för gamla miljöskador (On the liability for historic pollution) (1998)
- Klippan-målet igen - en replik (On the Klippan case once again) (1998)
- Retroaktiv rättsprövning - Regeringsrättens dom i Klippanmålet (Retroactive judicial review - on the judgement in the Klippan case) (1997)
- Ansvaret för efterbehandling av förorenade områden (On the liability for remediation of contaminated land) (1996)
Books
- Om ansvar för miljöskulder i mark och vatten (2003)
- Eftertanke och förutseende. En rättsvetenskaplig studie om ansvar och skyldigheter kring förorenade områden (2001)
Chapters
- Pulling the trigger (2018)
- Principle 10 and Access to Justice (2018)
- “Environmental Rights” in a European Context (2017)
- Principle 10 and Access to Justice. (2017)
- Under Fire From All Directions (2014)
- Sweden (2013)
- Environmental Justice through the Courts (2009)
- Justitieombudsmannen, de närboende och miljön (2009)
- The Public Interest and Biological Diversity (2009)
- Miljødemokrati – offentlighedens deltagelse i beslutningsprocessen (2009)
- On the Comparison of Environmental Law (2008)
- On the Comparison of Environmental Law (2008)
- Miljöbrott och åtalsrätt (2002)
- Rätten till en god miljö (2002)
- Konkurs och miljöansvar (1999)
Reports
- Så nära, och ändå så långt bort! (2016)
- Genomförande av det svenska systemet för miljökvalitetsnormer (2016)
- Access to Justice in Environmental Decision-making in Sweden. (2015)
- Effective Justice? (2013)
- National report from Sweden in Study on the Implementation of Article 9.3 and 9.4 of the Aarhus Convention in the Member States of the European Union (2012)
- Brussels Advocates Swedish Grey Wolves. (2011)
- Rätt tillstånd för miljön. (2010)
- Rätt tillstånd för miljön (2010)
- Miljöriskområden - förslag till förordning och vägledning för tillämpning. (Environmental Risk Areas) (1997)
- Om ansvar för miljöskulder i mark och vatten. Förslag till lagstiftning om efterbehandling av förorenade områden. (On the liability for contamination in soil water) (1996)