Professor van Zeben will give a lecture to researchers at A4CL. She is a professor at the Florence School of Transnational Governance and also serves as editor-in-chief of Transnational Environmental Law.
Professor van Zeben’s research focuses on the regulation of transnational issues by public and private actors across jurisdictions, with particular attention to polycentric governance theory and developments related to the European Union. Her work on the EU as a polycentric system exemplifies this line of her research. The other main lines of her research speak to environmental problems, which are often intrinsically transnational. This research includes work on (the interactions between) climate change, biodiversity, agriculture and pollution, specifically pollution caused by so-called ‘forever chemicals’ such as PFAS.