Manolis Kotzampasakis, LL.M., receives Fulbright Schuman Grant

Manolis Kotzampasakis has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Schuman Grant for doctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law.

Four months in Los Angeles

Kotzampasakis is currently a third year PhD candidate in climate law at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS), supervised by professor Edwin Woerdman and professor Frans Nelissen. From August 2024, he will spend four months at UCLA as a Visiting Graduate Researcher. UCLA has ranked as No. 1 public university in the USA for seven consecutive years. In the USA, Kotzampasakis will doctrinally and empirically research how EU-US policy synergies can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international maritime transport.

Fulbright Schuman scholarship program

Fulbright Schuman is a highly competitive scholarship program jointly financed by the U.S. State Department and the European Commission. Once a year, it funds research with a focus on EU affairs or the EU-US transatlantic agenda.

This article was published by the Faculty of Law.