Kristian Cedervall Lauta

Kristian Cedervall Lauta

PhD, ll.m.

  • Nørregade 10, Postboks 2177

    1017 København K

    Denmark

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

Kristian Cedervall Lauta is Prorector for Education and Professor of disaster and climate law. His research regards disasters, cliamte and risk, and both how these phenomena are regulated, and how they, in turn, affect law. 
 
Kristian works with:
  •      Disasters / Extreme events
  •      Disaster Law
  •      Cllimate Law
  •      Risk Regulation
  •      State of Exception / state of emergency
  •      Human Rights
In his latest book (in Danish only), Katastrofer - og hvad de kan lære os om os selv, Kristian provides unique insight into disasters, and how we as individuals and societies react. 
 
The seminal piece, Disaster Law, investigates how a change in the way disasters are understood and managed affects fundamental notions of duty, responsibility and justice. Kristian's present research continues these efforts, by investigating a wide range of issues relating to law and disasters. 

Teaching

Kristian does not teach as prorector, but have previously taught the following subjects:

  •     Existential Risks and the Law
  •     Human rights law
  •     Constitutional law
  •     International Public Law
  •     Disaster Law and Policy 

CV

CURRICULUM VITAE for Kristian Cedervall Lauta
Born 1982 in Holbæk, married to Birgitte Søgaard Lauta, father to Ella, Agnes, Theodor and Rita.
Work Address: Krystalgade 25, DK-1172 Copenhagen K
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +45 35324381

Education
2012 PhD, University of Copenhagen
2008 Ll.M., University of Copenhagen
2005 Ll.B., University of Copenhagen

Scientific focus areas
Main research topic: Law and Disasters, State of Emergency
Secondary research topics: Human Rights Law, Torts, Disaster Research

Employment record

2022- Prorector for education [Provost], Professor, University of Copenhagen. 

2019-2022 Professor, Associate Dean for Education, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen                     

2016-2019 Associate Professor, Center for International Law, Conflict and Crisis, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Center for International Law and Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Selected external funding awarded
2016 H2020-CSA grant, Enhancing Synergies for Disaster Prevention in the European Union (ESPREssO), WP leader and co-PI, 295.000 euro (3 million euro)
2014 NordForsk, Nordic Centre of Excellence for Resilience and Societal Security (NORDRESS), Co-writer and participant, 23 million NKr.
2012 UCPH Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research, ”Changing Disasters”, Deputy principal investigator and drafter of the application, 17,9 million Dkr.

Selected Editorial work
2016- Senior Editor for Disaster Law, European Journal of Risk Regulation
2014- Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Disasters, International Journal of Disaster Risk
Reduction, Journal for Applied Volcanology, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Journal of
International Humanitarian Legal Studies and more.
2013-2016 Danish Editor, Retfærd, “Nordic Journal of Law and Justice”.

Membership of professional organizations and networks2017-2022 Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters' Young Academy

2012-2016 MC for COST action for Disaster Bioethics, IS1201.
2015- Chairman of the Board for the Exhibition Space, X and Beyond.
2016- Member of the American Society of International Law                                                                

Academic awards and honorary positions:
2009 Visiting Scholar, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley

2017 Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law

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