Wybe Th. Douma

E-mail: W.Th.Douma
Phone Number: +31-70-3420368
Fax Number: +31-70-3420359
Snailmail: T.M.C. Asser Institute, P.O. Box 30461, 2500 GL Den Haag, The Netherlands

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Studied law at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Germany) and wrote his Doctorate thesis on The Precautionary principle. Its application in International, European and Dutch Law (Supervisors: Prof. C. Lambers, Prof.Dr. L.W. Gormley (University of Groningen)). Senior research fellow and head of the European Law section at the  T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands).
Working experience:
 

• Lecturing on European law, European environmental law, national environmental law, Dutch administrative law and international trade law at the University of Groningen and the T.M.C. Asser Institute, the Universities of Warschau, Lublin and Krakau (Poland) and at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand as well as for civil servants, judges and public prosecutors in Bukarest (Rumenia) and Sofia (Bulgaria).
• Team leader and legal expert in Phare and TACIS projects on harmonisation with EU legislation in Bosnia Herzegovina and Russia.
• Co-editor of two Dutch manuals on environmental law ('Praktijkboek milieu' and 'Vademecum milieurecht') and of the Dutch journal on environmental case law (Jurisprudentie milieurecht).
• Involved with the 1996 The Hague Conference on the Codification of the Rio Principles. Text of the Declaration adopted in May 1996.

Professional fields of interest:
European Community, International and Comparative Environmental Law; Principles of environmental law, WTO law
Some publications: 
 

• Walloon Waste Import Ban, European Business Law Review, nr. 2, 1993 
•  Waste Prevention in the EEC, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, Deventer (The Netherlands), co-editor
• De EG-Richtlijn Verpakking en verpakkingsafval. Het Nederlandse Convenant Verpakkingen toe aan recycling?, Milieu en Recht 1995, nr. 6, p. 108-112 
• Book review on D. Freestone and E. Hey (eds.), The Precautionary Principle and International Law. The Challenge of Implementation, Kluwer Law International, 1996, in: Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht, 1996, nr. 5, p. 108-109 
• Status des Vorsorgeprinzips im internationalen Recht anhand des Urteils des IGH zu den Französischen Atomtests des Jahres 1995, Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften, nr. 4, 1996, p. 187-192 
• Het Verdrag van Amsterdam en het milieu: twee stappen vooruit, een stap terug?, in: Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht, 1997, nr. 9, p. 179-184 
• Toward an equitable relation between trade and environment: the EC, NAFTA and WTO compared (together with Mark Jacobs), in: P. Demaret, J.-F. Bellis and G. García Jiménez (eds.), Regionalism and multilateralism after the Uruguy Round: convergence, divergence and interaction, European Interuniversity Press, Brussels, 1997, p. 587-612 
• Evolution and impact of sustainable development in the European Union, in: F. Weiss, E. Denters and P. de Waart, International economic law with a human face, Kluwer Law International, The Hague/Dordrecht/London, 1998, p. 271-285 
• Annotations to the International Court of Justice Gabcíkovo-Nagymaros case, and the European Co