Massimiliano Montini is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Siena (Italy), where he teaches EU Law and Sustainable Development Law.
At the University of Siena, he is module leader of the Jean Monnet Module “EU Law and Circular Economy for Sustainable Development” (ELCE4SD). Moreover, he is Director of the Environmental Legal Team and Co-Director of the Research Group R4S (Regulation for Sustainability). In addition, he is Scientific Director of the Europe Direct Siena Centre.
He is a Fellow of C-EENRG Research Centre and a Life-Member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
He is Vice-Chair of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) and a Member of several scientific networks, including the United Nations Knowledge Network “Harmony with Nature”, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) and the Group of European Environmental Lawyers Avosetta.
His main research interests relate to International and European Union Environmental Law, with a special focus on the transition from Environmental Law to Ecological Law, Climate Change Law, Sustainable Development Law and Regulation for Sustainability.
Among his latest publications:
– The transformation of environmental law into ecological law, in K. Anker et al. (eds.), From Environmental to Ecological Law, Routledge, 2021, p. 11-22;
– Designing Law for Sustainability, in V. Mauerhofer et al. (eds.), Sustainability and Law, Springer, 2020, p. 33-48;
– The post-Brexit negotiations and the level playing field criterion, in DPCE Online, v. 42, n. 1, 2020, available at: http://www.dpceonline.it/index.php/dpceonline/article/view/892
– The need for an “integral ecology” in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (with F. Volpe), in F. A. Pasquale & M. J. Perry (eds.), Care for the World. Laudato Si’ and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis, Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 56-67
– Atmospheric Pollution, in E. Lees & J. Vinuales, The Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law, Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 397-417.
– Nature’s Rights and Earth Jurisprudence. A New Ecologically-Based Paradigm for Environmental Law (with M. Ito) , in E. Apostolopoulou & J. A. Cortes-Vazquez (eds.), The Right to Nature. Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures, Routledge, 2019, p. 221-233.
– The Principle of Integration, in L. Kramer & E. Orlando, Principles of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, p. 139-149.
– The Double Failure of Environmental Regulation and Deregulation and the Need for Ecological Law, in Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. XXVI (2016), 2017, p. 265-285.
– Regulation for Sustainability: Promoting an Ecology-based Approach, (with F. Volpe), in Federalismi (www.federalismi.it), No. 3/2017, p. 1-16.
– Sustainable Development: renaissance or sunset boulevard? (with F. Volpe), in L. Westra et al. (eds.), The Role of Integrity in the Governance of the Commons, Springer, 2017, p. 169-178.
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