Dr Noreen O’Meara is an Associate Professor (Reader) of Human Rights, European and Environmental Law at the University of Surrey, UK. Noreen is a visiting Associate Professor at Stockholm University, contributing to the Masters in European Economic Law programme at the Faculty of Law. Current research projects focus especially on environmental governance, environmental pollution, and challenges in the trade policy landscape.
This seminar will explore the revised Environmental Crime Directive (2024/1203) adopted in 2024 in the context of the EU’s broader Green New Deal agenda. Nearly two decades since the original Environmental Crime Directive (2008/99/EC), much has changed in the landscapes of environmental crime, criminal justice and the EU’s increasingly urgent and comprehensive approach to climate change mitigation. This paper considers innovations of the new Directive, which includes crimes comparable to ecocide within its scope, and considers the extent to which the Directive is responsive to climate, environmental and criminal justice challenges.
September 20th, at 11:30-13:00
Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10C, 8th floor, Faculty room