Sustainability, Law and Criminology

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Sustainability, Law and Criminology

By Dorothy Gruyaert
Larcier Intersentia Publishers September 2025

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9781839704970
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Larcier Intersentia Publishers
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September 2025
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Paperback

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At the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology, a sustainability community was created to reflect on the question how our legal discipline can contribute to a more sustainable economy and society. This book is the result of a unique collaboration between more than fifty researchers. It addresses sustainability, law and criminology in a multi-faceted manner.

With this book, the authors aspire to contribute to the sustainability debate and the search for legal pathways to provide solutions for the sustainability challenges of our times. The authors provide insights for legal practice and help to understand the intricacy of sustainability questions in different legal domains.

The core idea which pervades this book is that sustainability is a transversal theme that calls for a cross-cutting approach both in interaction with other disciplines as well as in our own internal dialogues.

The book aims to stimulate and strengthen cross-disciplinary research on sustainability, law and criminology and to provide inspiration for sustainability education and legal practice

Table of Contents

PART 1. INTERDISCIPLINARY REFLECTIONS ON LAW, CRIMINOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 1. Learning from Sustainability Science and Systems Thinking for More Sustainability in Legal Academia
Elias Van Gool
Chapter 2. Climate Change, Sustainability & Critical Race Theory
Myriem El-Kaddouri
Chapter 3. Understanding Green Criminology and Eco-Justice Approaches to Inform Sustainable Law(yers)
Aitor Ibáñez Alonso
Chapter 4. Sustainability as a Benchmark for Assessing Environmental Harms: How Shifting the Lens on Stakeholders and Interests Affects the Results
Victoria A. Greenfield, Letizia Paoli
Chapter 5. Shifting Paradigms: Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, and the Rights of Nature
Eva Albers

PART 2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE GLOBE: LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 6. Sustainable Carrots, for Lack of Sticks? On the Potential of Sustainability Clauses in Trade Agreements to Enforce International Commitments
Christina Hiessl
Chapter 7. Sustainability Rules Go Global: Trailblazing or Compromising? The Case of Civil Aviation Emissions
Alexander Loengarov
Chapter 8. Armed Conflict Related Environmental Damage and the Lack of Adequate Legal Regulation under International Humanitarian Law
Pauline Charlotte Janssens
Chapter 9. Environmental (Soft) Law: The Legal Relevance of Non-Binding International Legal Instruments as Catalysts for Sustainability Action
Rita Guerreiro Teixeira

PART 3. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN THE CITIZEN-GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 10. How “Green” is the European Convention on Human Rights? Protection of the Environment through the European Human Rights System
Paul Lemmens, Eva Albers
Chapter 11. Social Security and Climate Change: System Sustainability and Fundamental Social Rights as Signposts for Reform
Eleni De Becker, Paul Schoukens, Tina Vangeneugden
Chapter 12. Trapped by the Treaties? EU Legal Limits to Environmental Tax Policies
Filip Debelva, Pierre van Limpt

PART 4. ENHANCING AND ENFORCING SUSTAINABILITY IN HORIZONTAL LEGAL RELATIONS
Chapter 13. Après moi, la servitude
Flore Vavourakis, Marie-Laure Degroote
Chapter 14. The Sustainable Toolbox of the Law of Obligations: Perspectives from Extra-Contractual Liability Law
Françoise Auvray, Christopher Borucki, Martijn Schouteden, Simon Van Eekert, Lukas Van Roy
Chapter 15. The Sustainable Toolbox of the Law of Obligations: Perspectives from Contract Law
Françoise Auvray, Christopher Borucki, Stefaan Declercq, Tom Hick, Aude Romain, Fleur Vanswijgenhoven
Chapter 16. Civil Claims Benefiting Environmental Interests for Environmental Associations
Simon Van Eekert, Stefaan Voet

PART 5. ENHANCING AND ENFORCING SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS
Chapter 17. Driving Sustainable Global Value Chains with the CS3D
Estelle Valentine Irambona
Chapter 18. The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation: Towards Free Circulation of Circular Goods
Alexandra Neacsu, Bert Keirsbilck
Chapter 19. The ‘Right to Repair’ in the European Union: Considerations from an EU Intellectual Property Perspective
Manon Vanderhaeghe, Jozefien Vanherpe
Chapter 20. Steward Ownership and Other Hybrid Group Structures: Beyond the Noble Purposes
Sofie Cools, Lisa Bueken

PART 6. GREENWASHING ACROSS DIFFERENT LEGAL DOMAINS
Chapter 21. ‘Greenwashing’ in the Financial Sector: A Critical Evaluation of the Current Legal Framework
Veerle Colaert, Florence De Houwer
Chapter 22. Greenwashing and Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Laura Neven
Chapter 23. Climate Justice and Greenwashing Litigation / Regulation: The Way Forward?
Evelyne Terryn
Chapter 24. Prosecuting Greenwashing: The Scope and Constraints of Criminal Law in Combating Deceptive Sustainability Claims
Thomas Incalza, Niels Vos

PART 7. SECTORAL LEGAL RESPONSES TO FOSTER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 25. Directors and Officers Insurance as a Safeguard for ESG Risks?
Amber VanAcker, Daphne Hof, Caroline Van Schoubroeck
Chapter 26. Concerning the Right to (Access to) Energy and Citizen Participation as an Instrument for a Sustainable and Balanced Energy Transition
Laurens De Brucker
Chapter 27. Sustainability Pluralism in the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe: In Search of Social, Environmental and Economic Trends
Kaat Van Delm
Chapter 28. The Diverse Roles of EU Financial Regulators
Pieterjan Heynen, Joeri De Smet
Chapter 29. Neo-EU Competition Law: Bridging Economic and Environmental Goals
Liesbet Van Acker
Chapter 30. Sustainability and Circular Economy in Belgian Property Law: A Balancing Exercise
Kato De Schepper, Vincent Sagaert
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