JAN DARPÖ

Professor of Environmental Law
Faculty of Law/Uppsala Universitet
PO Box 512, SE-751 20 UPPSALA, Sweden, Tel. +46 18 471 22 47
E-mail: jan.darpo@jur.uu.se, www.jandarpo.se

• LL:M 1991
• Law clerk at the District Court in Falun; 1993-94.
• Lecturer at the Faculty of Law/Uppsala Universitet; 1991/92 and 1995
• Doctoral student at the Faculty of Law/Uppsala Universitet: 1996-2001. LL.D 2001
• Law clerk and adjunct judge in the Environmental Court of Appeal: 2001-2003
• Senior lecturer 2004, professor of environmental law 2011.

Internal assignments

• Member of the research council of Faculty of law/Uppsala Universitet, 2005-2008.
• Coordinator of the research-programme ENFORCE (Enforcing Environmental Law in Europe), funded by the Swedish Environmental Agency, 2004-2010.
• Coordinator of the research programme “Combining sustainable biodiversity and human activities in the Swedish archipelago”, funded by Swedish Research Council for
• Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning FORMAS), 2008-

External assignment

• Expert in several Governmental Commissions: Implementation of the EU Directive on Environmental Liability (M 2004:4; 2005-2007), Environmental Procedure (M 2007:4; 2007-2009), Industrial emissions (M 2010:07; 2010-2011)
• International evaluator for the research-institute IWT/Flanders under the Flemish government (2006), d:o for the research-institute Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Dutch government (2012)
• Senior adviser in EU Conformity Study of measures of Member States to transpose Directives on Information and Public Participation in Environmental Matters (2008), Swedish rapporteur for Conformity Study on the EU Member States’ Implementation of the Habitats Directive to the European Parliament (2009)
• Chairman of the UNECEs Task Force on Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (www.unece.org/env/pp), 2008-2011, 2011-
• Assigned by the European Commission to supervise and lead the Study on factual aspects of access to justice in relation to EU environmental law in the Member States of the EU and to write the synthesis report on the matter, 2012-2013

Research areas
Environmental procedure, harmonization of environmental legislation, nature conservation and species protection, EIA/IPPC/IED permit regimes, remediation of contaminated land, water law…