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Harro van Asselt

Hatton Professor of Climate Law, University of Cambridge

Harro van Asselt is Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the Department of Land Economy, and a Fellow with Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy, and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland Law School, and an affiliated researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He is the editor of the Review of European, Comparative, and International Environmental Law and co-editor of Governing Climate Change and The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (both 2018). He has contributed to several of the Production Gap Reports, and is a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. His work has appeared in journals including Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, American Journal of International Law, Regulation & Governance, Climatic Change, and Climate Policy.

Education

  • 2013 
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, PhD