Legal Aspects of Soil Pollution and Decontamination in the EU Member States and the United States

This book intends to give a general insight into the legal aspects of soil pollution and the decontamination of polluted soil. This topic is dealt with in separate chapters for each EU Member State and the United States. Its intention is to be a stepping stone for further, and deeper, discussions and studies in this area of environmental law. Although being an introduction, this book can be of great importance for practice and educational purposes. It can play a major role in the development of (comparative) environmental law in and outside the European Union and the United States.

René (J.G.H.) Seerden is parttime associate professor in (Comparative) Administrative and Environmental Law at Maastricht University. Since 2003, he is Judge in the District Court of Limburg (administrative law, environmental law, asylum and migration law). René Seerden obtained his law degree (Constitutional and Administrative Law; and Social Security Law) at the University of Utrecht. In 1989-1990 he did a traineeship at the Asser Institute in The Haque and was a fellow at the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh. In 1993 he finished his doctoral thesis on the legal aspects of trans-frontier co-operation between decentralised authorities. He was for a long time responsible for the Master-courses Dutch Environmental Law and International, European and Comparative Environmental Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. In 2002 he was a visiting professor for the course European and Comparative Environmental Law at Capital University Law School (Columbus Ohio).