Expertise
Dr. Leonie Reins is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg Law School (the Netherlands).
Her main area of expertise is International and European Energy and Environmental law. Within this field, she focuses on the regulation of new technologies and developments such as CCS, nanotechnology, shale gas and the emergence of energy prosumers. Regulatory approaches towards risk and risk management also play an important role in her work. Leonie's work further addresses the way in which regulators balance environmental protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation with other objectives, such as energy supply security, and energy efficiency, through, for example, environmental labelling.
Keywords
Principal publications
- Reins, L. (2017). Regulating Shale Gas ? challenges of a coherent energy and environmental regulation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Van Calster, G., Reins, L. (2017). EU Environmental Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Reins L. (2017). New technologies and shale gas: Two sides of the same coin? Lessons learned from the regulation of Carbon Capture and Storage and Nanotechnology. In: Mersinia I., Penttinen S. (Eds.), Energy Transitions: Regulatory and Policy Trends, (pp. 239-258) Intersentia.
- Reins L. (2016). Water Use for Unconventional Gas Production in Europe. In: Jadwiga Z., Jeffrey P. (Eds.), Competition for Water Resources - Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, (pp. 197-211) Elsevier.
- Fleming R., Reins L. (2016). Shale gas extraction, precaution and prevention: A conversation on regulatory responses. Energy Research & Social Science (20), 131-141.
Click here for a list of publications in PDF format 
Education
(2015) Ph.D Law (KU Leuven, Belgium)
(2011) LL.M International, European and Comparative Energy and Environmental Law (KU Leuven, Belgium)
(2010) LL.B Business Law (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany)
Career
In 2017, Leonie joined Tilburg Law School as an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT).
Prior to joining TILT, she worked as a PhD Candidate and then as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research project on ?the coherent regulation on energy and environment ? using shale gas as a case study?, was financed by the Research Foundation ? Flanders (FWO). In addition Leonie worked as Legal Advisor at a Brussels-based environmental law and policy consultancy, where she was involved in projects relating to environmental, energy and climate change law and policy. Leonie holds and LL.M. in International, European and Comparative Energy and Environmental Law. She has been part of, and managed, several complex multi-country legal and policy studies for the European Institutions. These projects dealt with a range of topics, such as the precautionary principle and risk management, unconventional gas, environmental claims, deforestation, and energy supply security. Leonie has also managed several conformity assessment projects. Earlier in her career, Leonie served as a legal intern at the Environmental Law Center of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Bonn, Germany and was a research assistant at the department of Civil Law, Trade Law and Insurance Law at Leuphana University in Lüneburg where also completed her LL.B.
Leonie's work has been published in leading journals, such as Environmental Liability and the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law. Her 2017 monograph on the regulation of shale gas was published with Edward Elgar.
Publications
Principal publications
- Reins, L. (2017). Regulating Shale Gas ? challenges of a coherent energy and environmental regulation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Van Calster, G., Reins, L. (2017). EU Environmental Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Reins L. (2017). New technologies and shale gas: Two sides of the same coin? Lessons learned from the regulation of Carbon Capture and Storage and Nanotechnology. In: Mersinia I., Penttinen S. (Eds.), Energy Transitions: Regulatory and Policy Trends, (pp. 239-258) Intersentia.
- Reins L. (2016). Water Use for Unconventional Gas Production in Europe. In: Jadwiga Z., Jeffrey P. (Eds.), Competition for Water Resources - Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, (pp. 197-211) Elsevier.
- Fleming R., Reins L. (2016). Shale gas extraction, precaution and prevention: A conversation on regulatory responses. Energy Research & Social Science (20), 131-141.
Click here for a list of publications in PDF format
External accreditation
09.2017 - present Member of the European Law and Techology Network
08.2015 - present Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law
10.2013 - present Member of the European Environmental Law Form
09.2015 - present Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
08.2015 - present Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Early Career Group
11.2015 - present Member of the Environmental Law Network International (elni)
04.2012 - present Legal and Policy Advisor NGO CEID Colombia (Center for Sustainable Development Studies)
06.2015 - 08.2017 PhD Representative of KU Leuven of the Ius Commune Research School
Teaching
Leonie Reins teaches a class the following course:
620820-2017-2018: Regulation: Ethics, Acceptance, Legitimacy 2017-2018
L.S. (Leonie) Reins teaches the following subjects:
Contact details
Room
M 716
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
Global / English
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