Is European Energy Policy Looking Forward or Looking Backward?

Sept. 4, 2014 at 7 p.m.

Kirk W. Junker, Ph.D., J.D., Professor of Law & Chair of International Master of Environmental Science University of Cologne
Dr. Kirk Junker is the Chair of the International Master of Environmental Science at the University of
Cologne, and also has held the Chair in U.S. American Law at the University of Cologne since 2009. Prior
to joining the University of Cologne, he was the Director of International Programs and Associate
Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Junker also held
the first cross-border academic appointment in Ireland after the Belfast Agreement, being jointly
appointed at Dublin City University and the Queens University of Belfast. Prior to his work in Ireland, he
was a member of the Centre for Science Education at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. He is an
Adjunct Professor of International Environmental Law at Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje,
Macedonia, and an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law at Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of
Environment Science and Education in Pune, India, where he regularly lectures. He publishes in the areas
of comparative environmental law, international environmental law, science communication and the
rhetoric of science. He is the translator of Reinhold Zippelius Juristische Methodenlehre (German Legal
Method) into English and is the editor of the Comparative Legal Thinking Series (Carolina Academic
Press). For ten years he was a trial lawyer with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Social Epistemology, Health and
Environment, Cologne Business Law Journal, Journal of Health, Education and Environment On-Line,
and for the Institute of Physics. He is an Advisory Board Member to the German-American Lawyers
Association, the Environmental Governance Institute in Buea, Cameroon and was on the Advisory Board to the European Union Center for
Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh.