Author: DELaw
27 May Romain Mauger presents on Planetary boundaries, degrowth and EU energy law at TIEC.
Dr. Romain Mauger delivered an opening keynote at the XI Tarragona International Environmental Law Colloquium (TIEC), held at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, on the 29th of April 2026. Entitled "Come back down to Earth! Planetary boundaries, degrowth and energy law in the EU", the presentation adopted a voluntarily provocative tone to make an impression and convey the core message to the audience of fellow energy legal academics: available data shows that the absolute, global, sufficient and steady decoupling between economic growth and environmental footprint is not happening worldwide nor at national level even in Western or Northern European countries.
30 Apr Journal of Environmental Law workshop
On 16 and 17 of April, Inês participated in a workshop organised by the Journal of Environmental Law and hosted by Edinburgh Law School. Titled New Challenges of Environmental Law: from carbon removals to AI, the workshop brought together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore emerging challenges in environmental law.
29 Apr Internal Workshop on Legal Research Methods
On 18 and 19 of March, the DELaw team hosted an internal workshop in Cáceres on Legal Research Methods. Over the course of two days, we had the pleasure of welcoming a distinguished panel of scholars: Louis Kotzé and Ruven Fleming in person, as well as Julia Steinberger and Sanne Taekema online.
19 Jan Romain Mauger receives 2 prizes for the DELaw project
On the 20th of November 2025, Dr. Mauger received 2 prizes: both the regional (at Extremadura's scale) and the national (Spanish level) DaVinci Prize for humanities. These were granted during the IPFest 2025, an annual Spanish event were knowledge transfer is rewarded with different categories. The DaVinci prize is granted to the most integrative initiatives merging sciences, humanities and arts in the innovation context. The prizes were granted to Dr. Mauger for his academic research at the crossroads of various scientific disciplines in the field of energy, and especially so regarding the DELaw project, integrating law, degrowth theory and life-cycle analysis, mobilising a wide spectrum of disciplines.
03 Dec Yuly Choque attends Beyond Growth conference in Madrid
On 26 September 2025, Yuly Choque, PhD candidate within the DElaw project, attended the Beyond Growth conference taking place at the Spanish Parliament, in Madrid. This event created an international forum dedicated to the analysis and promotion of degrowth as a political, social and economic framework to respond to the current eco-social crisis.
07 Oct Romain Mauger presents on Degrowth and Energy Law at ELU-S conference in Prague
Dr. Mauger participated to the European Law Unbound Society (ELU-S) inaugural conference, held in Prague from the 24th to the 27th of October 2025. On this occasion, he delivered a presentation entitled "Integrating degrowth theory within EU energy law: A vanishing light at the end of the tunnel?", as a part of a degrowth-focused panel, itself named: "A fair and sustainable Europe through degrowth: Research results from energy, competition and agri-food law".
05 Oct Romain Mauger presents (online) on Energy Commons & Degrowth at University of Groningen, Netherlands
On the 19th of September 2025, Dr. Mauger participated online to the workshop entitled: "A Research Agenda for Energy Commons Law". This workshop organised by Prof Björn Hoops gathered dozens of academics to reflect on the legal frameworks pertaining to energy commons (or the measures which should be implemented to facilitate their creation and management). On this occasion, Romain Mauger was invited to deliver a keynote presentation on "Energy Commons & Degrowth". It was the occasion to stress the links between degrowth and the commons in general and more specifically between degrowth and energy communities.- 1
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