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Department of Business Humanities and Law
- CBS Law

Marie-Louise Holle’s research focuses on climate litigation, tort law, and contract law. She is a member of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Peer Review Network and serves as a rapporteur for five jurisdictions—Madagascar, Monaco, Namibia, the Seychelles, and the Vatican. Her research in climate litigation builds on her extensive scholarship in liability, torts, and litigation. In addition to her rapporteur role, she is also part of the Sabin Center’s research group on corporate liability and climate change and has been invited to join the expert panel for the Center’s webinars.
Holle has been nominated as a visiting professor in the Global Law of Obligations ("Civil Law and Contemporary Global Issues") at NUS Law (Singapore), one of the world’s top-ranked law schools. Holle has given research presentations in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. She has also contributed to the prestigious Obligations Series Conference, presenting her paper at the 2023 “Private Law and the State” conference in Banff, Canada. The Obligations Series is the most renowned private law conference in the Common Law world, with a highly competitive paper selection process.
Beyond climate litigation, Holle has undertaken numerous comparative law, foreign law, and international law research projects. Her work has been published in French, English, and Danish, and she is a member of the Climate Law and Economics research group at CBS LAW.
From 2014 to 2016, she served as lead editor for the major Nordic research project "Restatement of Nordic Contract Law", funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and other institutions.
Holle holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, a DESS (Master) in European Business Law from Université Paris V – René Descartes, and a Candidata Juris (Master of Laws) from the University of Copenhagen.
She has been a visiting research fellow at leading institutions, including Columbia University (New York), the University of Sydney, and Sciences Po Paris.
Since May 2023, she has also served as a board member of JurForsk, the Danish legal PhD education program.
- Contracts
- Torts
- Public-private cooperation
- Comparative law
- Climate Litigation
- PhD Coordinator, CBS LAW
- Course responsible, Master theses, MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Course responsible, Bachelor projects, BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Course responsible, Sale of Goods, Tort Law, BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Course responsible, Mergers and Acquisitions, MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Course responsible, Corporate Finance Law, BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Course responsible, Torts and Insurance, MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Employment Law, BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Employment law and Labour law, MSc in Social Sciences
- Advanced Labour Law and Personnel Economics, MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Sale of Goods and Torts, BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Law and Economics of Torts and Insurance, MSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law
- Bachelor projects
- Master theses
- PhD Supervision
- Assistant Professors
Forthcoming: Marie-Louise Holle / UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation (2024) In: Columbia Law School/Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Climate Law Blog
Marie-Louise Holle / Ncumcara Community Forest Management Association v The Environmental Commissioner (2024) In: Columbia Law School/Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Marie-Louise Holle; Grith Skovgaard Ølykke / The Awarding of Royal Warrants : A State Aid Perspective on a Centuries-old National Practice. In: European State Aid Law Quarterly, Vol. 22, Nr. 1, 2023, s. 55-68 Peer reviewed Journal Article
Marie-Louise Holle / The ‘Then’ and the ‘Now’ of Forced Relocation of Indigenous Peoples : Repercussions in International Law, Torts and Beyond. In: European Public Law, Vol. 28, Nr. 2, 5.2022, s. 203-220 Peer-reviewed Journal Article
Amalie Bang; Marie-Louise Holle / Making Legal History : State Liability for Negligence in Climate Change. I: European Public Law, Vol. 26, Nr. 1, 2020, s. 45-57 Peer-reviewed Journal Article
Research
Communication
In the media
: Columbia Law School 2025
In: EU Law Live, No. 47, 14.11.2024, p. 23-26
: Columbia Law School 2024
In: Carbon & Climate Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2024, p. 127-140
New York : Columbia Law School 30.5.2024
In: European State Aid Law Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2023, p. 55-68
In: Persondata og forskning. ed. /Kent Kristensen. København : Djøf Forlag 2022, p. 409-424
In: Persondata og forskning. ed. /Kent Kristensen. København : Djøf Forlag 2022, p. 663-684
In: European Public Law, Vol. 28, No. 2, 5.2022, p. 203-220
In: Persondata og forskning. ed. /Kent Kristensen. København : Djøf Forlag 2022, p. 527-544
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2021, 24 p. (CBS LAW Research Paper, No. 21-02)
In: European Public Law, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2020, p. 45-57
Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer 2019, 237 p. (International Encyclopaedia of Laws. Commercial and Economic Law)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2019, 11 p. (CBS LAW Research Paper, No. 19-11)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2019, 16 p. (CBS LAW Research Paper, No. 19-40)
2.ed.Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer 2017, 230 p.
København : Ex Tuto Publishing 2017, 272 p.
In: Revue Internationale de Droit Compare, No. 4, 2017, p. 779-805
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 251-304
In: Revue Internationale de Droit Compare, No. 3, 2016, p. 723-742
In: Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2016, p. 240-248
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 91-116
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 69-91
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 231-250
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract LawKøbenhavn : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 9-12
In: European Product Liability: An Analysis of the State of the Art in the Era of New Technologies. . ed. /Piotr Machnikowski. Cambridge : Intersentia 2016, p. 155-172 (Principles of European Tort Law)
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 117-136
København : Djøf Forlag 2016, 394 p.
In: Restatement of Nordic Contract Law. ed. /Ole Lando; Marie-Louise Holle; Torgny Håstad; Berte-Elen Konow; Peter Møgelvang-Hansen; Soili Nystén-Haarala; Ása Ólafsdóttir; Laila Zackariasson. København : Djøf Forlag 2016, p. 195-230
In: Ugeskrift for Retsvaesen, Vol. 150, No. 4, 2016, p. 43-52
In: Ugeskrift for Retsvaesen, Vol. 149, No. 14, 2015, p. 147-156
In: Erhvervsretlige emner : Juridisk Institut CBS. . ed. /Peter Arnt Nielsen; Peter Koerver Schmidt; Katja Dyppel Weber. København : Djøf Forlag 2015, p. 81-99
In: Ugeskrift for Retsvaesen, Vol. 148, No. 38, 2014, p. 327-336
In: Havne & Skibsfart, Vol. 15, No. 1-2, 2.2013, p. 20-21
In: Commercial and Economic Law in Denmark. ed. /Jules Stuyck; Evelyne Terryn. Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International 2013, p. 117-124 (International Encyclopaedia of Laws. Commercial and Economic Law, No. Suppl. , Vol. 50)
København : Karnov Group 2013, 283 p.
In: Julkista - yksityistä; millaisissa rakenteissa? Offentligt - privat; i hurudana strukturer?: Juhlakirja professori Eija Mäkisen 60-vuotispäiväksi. . ed. /Jan-Erik Helenelund; Ilpo Luoto; Niina Mäntylä; Kristian Siikavirta. Vaasa : Vaasan Yliopisto - University of Vaasa 2012, p. 412-420 (Acta Wasaensia. Raettsvetenskap, No. 265)
København : Djøf Forlag 2012, 426 p.
In: Juristen, No. 6, 12.2012, p. 290-296
In: Liber amicorum Ole Lando. ed. /Michael Joachim Bonell; Marie-Louise Holle; Peter Arnt Nielsen. København : Djøf Forlag 2012, p. 7-12
In: European Tort Law 2008Vienna/New York : Springer Science+Business Media 2009, p. 26-48 (Tort and Insurance Law, Yearbook, Vol. 2008)
Singapore : National University of Singapore 3.3.2025
2020, 10 p.
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