New doctoral student in Environmental Law

The doctoral project will be a part of a Swedish Research Council-funded research environment that proposes to combine law and conservation to help develop solutions to the biodiversity crisis.

Here below is a short description of Mar’s project.

Preliminary title of the thesis: Comparative study of species protection in the EU: the wolf (Canis lupus) as an illustrative case study
Main supervisor: Yaffa Epstein

The project looks at the question of species conservation using the illustrative case study of a species – the wolf (Canis lupus) – and the duty to protect species, which is shared by EU countries, in order to develop a comparative analysis on how and why the application of the Habitats Directive may differ in effectivity in different countries. The research focuses on how national courts in the EU have interpreted EU species protection requirements differently, how they utilize scientific knowledge and the role that strategic litigation plays in protecting species, with the objective of assessing the linkage between ecology and law and systematizing their interactions in species protection.