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dr. L.S. (Leonie) Reins
Assistant ProfessorTilburg Law School
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
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Dr. Leonie Reins is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg Law School (the Netherlands).
Leonie?s research focuses on the intersections of energy and environmental law. She is particularly interested in the regulation of new technologies that are capable of mitigating, or providing means of adaptation to, global problems such as climate change and the associated risks and uncertainty that manifest themselves at the local level. 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.
Keywords
- Access to Justice
- Citizens Participation
- Climate Change
- Nature Protection Law
- Regulation
- comparative law
- consumer law
- energy markets
- energy problems
- energy sources
- environmental impact study
- environmental law
- european environmental law
- european law
- innovation
- international environmental law
- legal principles
- local energy planning
- nanotechnology
- new technologies
- regulation of new technologies
- renewable energy
- risk regulation
- soft law
- sustainable development
Most recent publications
- Penttinen, Sirja-Leena, & Reins, Leonie (2019). System boundaries of nearly zero-energy buildings in the European Union: Rethinking the legal framework for active consumer participation. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law
- Reins, Leonie (2019). The European Union's framework for FDI screening: Towards an ever more growing competence over energy policy. Energy Policy, 128(May 2019), 665-672.
- Reins, Leonie (2018). Energy Charter Treaty - Article 2: Purpose of the Treaty. In Rafael Leal-Arcas (Ed.), Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
- Geraets, Dylan, & Reins, Leonie (2018). Energy Charter Treaty - Article 1 : Definitions. In Rafael Leal-Arcas (Ed.), Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
- Reins, Leonie (2018). Developments in downstream energy regulation in the EU: Accommodating the changing role of energy consumers. Oil Gas and Energy Law Intelligence, 16(3)
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