Ecological Integrity in Science and Law

Laura Westra did her undergraduate and graduate work in philosophy, and she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1983. After her retirement from the University of Windsor's Philosophy Department, she attended Osgoode Hall Law School, and received her second Ph.D. in Jurisprudence in 2005. She is the founder of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) (globalecointegrity.org), and has organized annual conferences for 27 years for the group which comprises over 200 members. She has been reinstated at the University of Windsor, and taught in Italy, at the University of Milano(Bicocca) and the University of Salerno. She is the author/editor of 44 books and over 90 articles and chapters in books. Klaus Bosselmann has been teaching in the areas of public international law, European law, global environmental law and governance, and environmental constitutionalism. His research focus is on conceptual, international and comparative dimensions of environmental law and governance. He is particularly interested in ecological approaches to law and governance. He has been the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law since its establishment in 1999. He is Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) Ethics Specalist Group, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA),  Co-Chair of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG), and executive member of several other professional networks including Sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand (SANZ) and the New Zealand Centre of Global Studies (NZCGS). Klaus has authored or edited 30 books on environmental law and political ecology, a number of which have been translated into multiple languages; his articles appeared in many of the world's leading law journals. For his pioneering work on ecological law, he has received numerous awards including the Inaugural Senior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.Matteo Fermeglia is affiliated as a Doctor Assistant in Environmental and Administrative Law within the Center for Government and Law (CORe) of Hasselt University. He graduated in 2014 as a master in Law at the University of Trieste (Italy). The research themes in which Matteo Fermeglia is active include soil protection, environmental liability, climate law and governance. In 2017, Matteo was Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, where he actively collaborated with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.In 2019, Matteo obtained his doctorate in Law at the University of Udine and Trieste joint PhD programme with a dissertation on the legal nature of EU Emission Trading Allowances, the Renewable Energy Certificates and Energy Efficiency Certificates. Matteo has authored and co-authored several publications in edited books and international journals on diffuse soil pollution, environmental liability, climate law and governance.