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Areas of Practice

  • California’s Proposition 65
  • International Biotechnology Law and Policy
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Profile

Bar Admissions

    Education
    LLM, Yale University, 1989

    PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1988

    MD, University of Amsterdam, 1988

    JD, University of Amsterdam, 1985

    Areas of Practice

    • California’s Proposition 65
    • International Biotechnology Law and Policy

    Professional Career



    Articles

    • Reformed TSCA and REACH: How Do They Compare?, Chemical Risk Manager
    • Unbiased Safety Through Procedural Safeguards in TTIP, Atlantic-Community.org
    • The EU should wrest back leadership on climate change from the courts
    • The Privacy Fallacy: Adverse Effects of Europe's Data Protection Policy in an Information-Driven Economy, Computer Law & Security Report
    • Does REACH have a 'chilling effect' on trade and investment?, New Europe
    • REACH: Where do we stand and where are we going?, Compounding World
    • The EU’s Product Stewardship Regulations Affect Global Supply Chains, Draft 14
    • Is the data-sharing Regulation consistent with EU law?, ChemicalWatch
    • The European Union REACH Regulation for Chemicals: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press
    • Legal and Administrative Systems: Implications for Precautionary Regulation, The Reality of Precaution, Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe, RFF Press
    • EC Law For the New Economy, Intersentia
    • Adjudicating scientific disputes in climate science: the limits of judicial competence and the risks of taking sides, Environmental Liability
    • The hidden trigger of Paris: why the climate battle will now be taken to the courts, Energy Post
    • The Urgenda judgment: a ‘victory’ for the climate that is likely to backfire
    • Private Party Standing and EU Risk Regulation, European Journal of Risk Regulation
    • Scientific and Policy Analysis of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals: A Comparison of Practices in Asia, Europe, and North America, Report of a Consensus Panel, Brussels
    • REACH review – a lawyer's point of view, ENDSEurope (online)
    • Design and implementation of a governance system for the protection of the environment and public health in China, China-EU Law Journal
    • Perfect Storm in the EU: Tidal Wave of Product Regulation, Executive Counsel
    • National Parliaments Should Approve the Paris Agreement Before it is a Done Deal, EnergyCollective.com
    • Trade, the Precautionary Principle, and Post-Modern Regulatory Process, The European Journal of Risk Regulation
    • Off-shore oil spills require government-industry co-operation, not more regulation and expanded liability, New Europe
    • Managing Workplace Privacy, Bureau of National Affairs
    • An International Liability Regime for Biotech Food, World Food Regulation Review
    • Data Protection in Europe and the Internet, EDI Law Review
    • Nanotechnology Regulation in Europe: From REACH and Nano-Registries to Cosmetics, Biocides, and Medical Devices, 11 Nanotech. L. & Bus. 93
    • Environmental Violations Can Lead to Criminal Charges Abroad, Executive Counsel, Volume 3 Number 5
    • Liability and Environment, Kluwer Law International, The Hague
    • Civil Liability for Terrorism-Related Risk, Cambridge University Press
    • European Court Clarifies Application of ‘Polluter Pays Principle’ and Causation, JEEPL
    • REACH and the precautionary principle: costs and benefits of proposed EU chemical legislation, Environment & Health: Myths & Realities, International Policy Press
    • The European Union’s Environmental Liability Directive: A Commentary and Analysis of Emerging Practices, Oxford University Press
    • From Talcum to Glyphosate: The Multi-Billion Dollar Battle to Define ‘Risk’, Chemical Watch
    • The EU’s ineffective climate diplomacy post-Paris, EurActiv.com
    • Fossil fuel is like tobacco? Financial Post
    • Regulating Chemical Substances under REACH: The Choice between Authorization and Restriction and the Case of Dipolar Aprotic Solvents, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law
    • EU Product-Related Standards Drive Product Design and Manufacture in Multinational Enterprise, Spotlight on International Business
    • Should Europe's Product Liability Regime Be Expanded?, Product Safety and Liability Reporter
    • Carbon Capture and Sequestration in Europe, Hunton & Williams White Paper
    • Electronic Contracting in Europe, Electronic Commerce & Law Report
    • Managing Environmental Liability Risks in European Business Transactions, TMA
    • Regulating Chemicals under the REACH Regulation: The Choice between Authorization and Restriction and the Case of Dipolar Aprotic Solvents, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law
    • Interim relief in case of inclusion of a substance on the REACH Candidate List, The European Journal of Risk Regulation
    • EU Rule Sets Higher Standard For Medical Devices, Law360
    • The Trojan Horse of the Paris Climate Agreement: How Multi-Level, Non-Hierarchical Governance Poses a Threat to Constitutional Government, SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
    • Is There a Defect in the European Court’s Defect Test? Musings about Acceptable Risk, European Journal of Risk Regulation
    • How the EU’s product stewardship regulations affect global supply chains, Trends, Volume 50, Number 5
    • EU court makes it harder to fight candidate list inclusion, Chemical Watch

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