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Joint Report from the Working Group on Decarbonisation of Transport Infrastructure Construction in the EU

Professor Ole Hansen and assistant professor Maria Gausdal contributed to the Joint Report from the Working Group on Decarbonisation of Transport Infrastructure Construction in the EU for the European Commission.

PhD Fellow Nine Riis receives Elite Research Travel Grant

PhD Fellow Nine Riis has been awarded an Elite Research Travel Grant of DKK 200,000 from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

CEPRI publishes Special Issue on ’Private enforcement of climate and sustainability requirements’

CEPRI publishes Special Issue on ’Private enforcement of climate and sustainability requirements’. It contains 9 articles which analyse the proposal for the new Corporate Sustainabilty Due Diligence EU Directive.

Sorcha MacLeod receives €2M grant from the ERC

Dr. Sorcha MacLeod has been awarded a Consolidator Grant of €2 million from the European Research Council for a new project aiming to provide crucial insights on the contemporary nature of mercenaries, and their violations of both human rights and International Humanitarian Law.

Danish healthcare interpretation fee rules negatively affect immigrants’ access to healthcare

A new study published in Health Policy by researchers at CEPRI and the Department of Public Health examines how immigrants experience consequences of the fee on healthcare interpretation that was introduced in Danish law in 2018.

The Routledge Handbook on Polar Law has now been published!

Researchers from CEPRI’s Shipping and Ocean Law Group, SHOC, professor Yoshifumi Tanaka and professor Vibe Ulfbeck have edited the volume together with professor Rachael Lorna Johnstone from University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Double grant success for waste and circular economy law research

Dr Katrien Steenmans, postdoc on the Circular Supply Chains – identifying legal risks (CirCus) project, has been awarded two small grants.

CEPRI researcher attends Annual Meeting of UN Special Procedures mandate holders in Geneva

Dr Sorcha MacLeod, CEPRI Associate Professor and a member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries recently attended the 29th Annual Meeting of Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and Chairs of Working Groups at the Palais Wilson, Geneva (HQ of the OHCHR).

Immigrants' access to healthcare in Denmark

Around one fifth of newly arrived immigrants in Denmark experience difficulties when trying to access healthcare in Denmark, in spite of the stated goal of the Danish Health Act to ensure ‘easy and equal access’ to healthcare for all residents.

CEPRI contribution to important new Commentary on Business and Human Rights

CEPRI Associate Professor Dr Sorcha MacLeod, has contributed chapters together with co-author Dr Daria Davitti (Lund) to an exciting new Commentary on business and human rights.

Limitations of the circular economy concept in law

The Circular Supply Chains – identifying and allocating legal risks (CirCus) project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, has had two recent publication successes

Launch of CirCus Webinar Series

The CirCus Webinar Series on the Legal Landscape of Circular Supply Chains launched on Friday 21 April 2023 with a webinar by Professor Rosalind Malcolm of the University of Surrey

Can workers enforce corporate reports in tort actions?

An empirical study of compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act in the shipping industry

What does “integration” mean?

Integration is one of the major challenges posed to the European Union by the immigration of third-country nationals. However, the concept of integration is still lacking a proper legal definition.

We are hiring!

Two post-doc positions are now available in CEPRI on the CirCus project.

New Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

Publication on the Circular Economy and the Law

New Publication of the Textbook on the Law of the Sea

Textbook on the Law of the Sea.

New CEPRI/SHOC project on Green Shipping - GreenLaSH

The Shipping and Ocean law group, SHOC in CEPRI has launched a new project on the Green transition and legal implications in shipping (GreenLaSH).

New CEPRI research on Circular Supply Chains

SAPIENS Network Legal Bootcamp

CEPRI hosted a Legal Bootcamp for Marie Curie Fellows

PurpLE Launch Seminar Overview

On the 9^th September 2022, the Purchase Power – Sustainable Public Procurement Through Private Law Enforcement PurpLE project was launched with an international seminar introducing the project's main themes at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

New Assistant Professor in CEPRI

As part of the Faculty of Law's strategy to prioritise research in law and sustainability, Maria Edith Lindholm Gausdal has been appointed Assistant Professor of private law and sustainability as of 1 July 2022.

We are hiring!

CEPRI Researcher selected for Berkman Klein Center’s Research Sprint