Better protection of the environment through criminal law in the EU

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Michael Faure Maastricht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Faculty of Law of Universitas Indonesia Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-7832

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Michael Faure, Maastricht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Faculty of Law of Universitas Indonesia

Professor Dr Michael G. Faure LLM became academic director of the Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Legal Research and professor of comparative and international environmental law at the law faculty of Maastricht University in September 1991. Retired from both positions in May 2025. In addition, he was academic director of the Ius Commune Research School and a member of the board of directors of Ectil. Since 1 February 2008, he has been a part-time professor of comparative private law and economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and academic director of the European Doctorate in Law and Economics programme until his retirement in May 2025.
Until January 2023 he was also an attorney at the Antwerp Bar. He publishes in the areas of environmental (criminal) law, tort and insurance, and economic analysis of (accident) law. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universitas Indonesia.