Francesca Leucci LL.M. is Lecturer in Environmental Law at Wageningen University (NL). She was previously a PhD candidate at Bologna, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Universities (European Doctorate in Law and Economics). She gained her first legal degree in Italy and her second LL.M. in Economic Analysis of European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. Her fields of interest include environmental law, the economic analysis of environmental liability laws and, more specifically, remedies for damage to the environment and biodiversity.
Alongside her research, she has professional experience as a lawyer and as a judge assistant. She is also a temporary expert for Eklipse, working on the impact assessment of projects on biodiversity (no net loss) through the concept of ecosystem services. She is also a member of the Task Force on Guidelines and Tools for Integrated Ecosystem Services Assessment (led by Dolf de Groot and Evangelia Drakou) and a member of the Legal Working Group of the Society of Ecological Restoration (led by An Cliquet).
