Standing at the European Court of Human Rights In this episode of Between Heat and Hope we are join by Professor Corina Heri. Corina Heri is Associate Professor of human rights and climate change at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Primary…
European Papers – A Journal on Law and Integration, Vol. 11, 2026, No 1 Professor Christina Eckes’s latest article examines how climate litigation in Europe brings courts into a central role in addressing inadequate state climate action. It shows how…
Non-Majoritarian Instruments and Institutions: Dissensus and Democracy in Europe Christina Eckes co-edited a special section in European Papers – A Journal on Law and Integration. It brings together contributions on the role of non-majoritarian instruments and institutions in contemporary European…
A Law and Political Economy Approach to Climate Litigation In this episode, Ioannis Kampourakis, Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and co-director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) in Europe project joins Rena Hänel, PhD researcher at the University…
Future Generations and the African Climate Advisory Opinion In 2025, a request was submitted to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights by a group of African civil society organisations for an advisory opinion on African States’ obligations in respect of…
Corporations, Climate Change & Human Rights For this episode of Between Heat and Hope we are joined by Professor Evelyne Schmid. Evelyne Schmid is a professor of international law at the University of Lausanne, where she is an expert in…
Lawyering before the European Court of Human Rights In this episode of Between Heat and Hope, Veronika Fikfak, professor of Human Rights and International Law at UCL, joins us to discuss the ‘European Human Rights Bar’, this is the network…
The Legal Strategy behind Greenpeace The Netherlands v Netherlands (Bonaire case) In this third episode, Eefje de Kroon, Greenpeace The Netherlands’ Campaign Lead for Climate and Energy, speaks with Tessa Trapp, PhD Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, about the…
Greenpeace The Netherlands v Netherlands (Bonaire case) In this second episode of Between Heat and Hope, Phillip Paiement, Professor of Law & Governance in the Anthropocene at Tilburg Law School, discusses the Bonaire case of 28 January 2026 with Christina…
10 Years of Climate Litigation In this first episode of Between Heat and Hope, Simon Waswa, PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam is joined by Dennis van Berkel, Legal Counsel of the Urgenda Foundation and Strategic Advisor at the…
