M. (Manolis) Kotzampasakis

Manolis Kotzampasakis specializes in energy and climate law, focusing on the legal design and implementation of carbon pricing regulations and energy transition policies more broadly. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen and Chief Legal Officer of Carbon Glance, a UK-based climate software company he co-founded in 2023.

Manolis Kotzampasakis obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2016. In 2020, he graduated cum laude with a Master of Laws (LLM) in Energy and Climate Law from the University of Groningen. As a lawyer admitted to the Athens Bar Association, Manolis has worked at law firms in the areas of environmental, energy, and health law, as well as at the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee of the European Parliament. He has taught at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States on a Fulbright Schuman scholarship.

Manolis has served as a peer reviewer for several international academic journals, including Climate Policy, Transport Policy, Marine Policy, Nature Scientific Reports, Leiden Journal of International Law, Transnational Environmental Law, RECIEL, Climate Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Selected publications (full publication record available on Google Scholar):

- M Kotzampasakis and DR Wooley, “Mitigating Carbon Leakage in Maritime Transport”, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (2025), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13437-025-00390-9

- M Kotzampasakis, “Maritime Emissions Trading in the EU: Systematic Literature Review and Policy Assessment”, 165 Transport Policy 28 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.02.014

- M Kotzampasakis and E Woerdman, “The Legal Objectives of the EU Emissions Trading System: An Evaluation Framework”, 13 Transnational Environmental Law 312 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102524000153

- M Kotzampasakis, “Intercontinental Shipping in the European Union Emissions Trading System: A ‘Fifty–fifty’ Alignment with the Law of the Sea and International Climate Law?”, 32 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 29 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12485

- M Kotzampasakis and E Woerdman, “Linking the EU ETS with California’s Cap-and-Trade Program: A Law and Economics Assessment”, 4 Central European Review of Economics and Management 9 (2020), https://doi.org/10.29015/cerem.898