Rate My Professor Harro van Asselt

Professor Harro van Asselt holds the Hatton Professorship in Climate Law in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as a Law Fellow and Director of Studies for Land Economy at Hughes Hall. He holds a PhD (cum laude) and a Master’s in Law from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In addition, he is Professor of Climate Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland Law School and an Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. His research focuses on climate change law and policy, including international, European, and national climate law and governance; fragmentation of global climate governance; fossil fuel subsidies and their reform; climate finance and investment law; regime interactions; transparency in multilateral climate negotiations; non-state actors in climate governance; trade and climate policy interactions; fossil fuel production governance; and border carbon adjustments. He teaches International Environmental Law (EP01/Land Economy Paper 15) alongside Professor Jorge E. Viñuales and contributes to the MSt in Climate, Environmental and Urban Policy.

Van Asselt has held visiting research and teaching positions at Utrecht University, the University of Georgia, the University of Strathclyde, Bar-Ilan University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Finnish Institute for International Affairs. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL), a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance project and steering committee member of its Task Force on Earth System Law, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, and a member of Climate Strategies. He previously served on the International Law Association Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law and the E15 Expert Group on Measures to Address Climate Change and the Trade System. His key publications include the monograph The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (Edward Elgar, 2014); co-edited books Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? (Cambridge University Press, 2018), The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and forthcoming titles The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, with Daniel Bodansky) and Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law (Edward Elgar, with Michael Mehling). He contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (Working Group III, Chapter 14) and UNEP Emissions Gap and Production Gap reports. In 2011, he received the Harold D. Lasswell Prize for the best article in Policy Sciences. His work influences policy and appears in media such as The New York Times and Nature News.