Department of Business Humanities and Law

Marie-Louise Holle’s research focuses on climate litigation, torts, and contracts.
Holle is a member of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Peer Review Network. Her research in climate litigation continues her long research in liability, torts, and litigation. Holle is now also a Sabin Center rapporteur for five jurisdictions (Madagascar, Monaco, Namibia, the Seychelles, and the Vatican). Additionally, Holle has also joined the Sabin Center’s research group for corporate liability and climate change. Holle was one of the speakers at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center end-of-year webinar in 2023.
Recently, Holle was appointed to the editorial board of Climate Law, a European peer-reviewed journal.
Holle is nominated as a visiting professor in the global law of obligations (“Civil Law and Contemporary Global Issues”) at NUS Law (Singapore), which is often ranked among the top ten law schools in the world.
Holle presented a paper at the Obligations series conference “Private Law and the State” in Banff, Canada, in 2023. The Obligations series conference is the most prestigious private law conference in the Common Law world, and the paper selection process is highly competitive.
 
Holle has carried out several research projects involving comparative law, foreign, and international law. She has published her research in French, English, and Danish. She is a member of the Climate Law and Economics research group at CBS LAW. Read more about the Climate Law and Economics research group here.
From 2014 to 2016 she was a main editor of the large Nordic research project: “Restatement of Nordic Contract Law”, which was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, among others.  
 
Marie-Louise Holle holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, a DESS (Master) of European business law from Université Paris V-Rene Descartes, and a candidata juris (master) from the University of Copenhagen.
 
She has been a visiting research fellow at a number of research institutions, including Columbia University New York, Sydney University, and Sciences Po Paris.
 
Since May 2023, Marie-Louise has also been a board member of JurForsk (the Danish legal PhD education program).