About Us

Lead researchers

Yaffa Epstein

Pro Futura Scientia research fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and teacher at the Uppsala University Faculty of Law. Her work explores the relationship between law and natural science as well as the interaction between international, EU and national environmental law. Her research focus has been interdisciplinary, bringing ecology into law. Courses taught include legal philosophy, legal history, environmental law and EU law.
Google Scholar page. Email: yaffa.epstein@jur.uu.se

Guillaume Chapron

Associate Professor (docent) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Initially trained at a veterinarian, he has a master and a doctorate in ecology and a graduate diploma in political sciences. He uses a diversity of methods and disciplines, ranging from Bayesian state space models to legal analyses to answer questions at the core of contemporary conservation challenges, with particular emphasis on the conservation of large carnivores. He is a member of the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
Personal home page. Email: guillaume.chapron@slu.se