CircuLaw

Regulations for a circular economy

By Theo Campbell

Project Shots

Different themes under the construction product chain

Theme page design where you can explore different views of legal instruments

EU Law section, our EU green deal analysis is one of our most viewed pages

Search different content types using Sanity and Algolia

Editing environment

New content types for legal instruments organised by theme

We have over 15 themes and over 230 legal instruments to stimulate the circular economy

Flexible list ordering for our news section

About the project

In close collaboration with the City of Amsterdam and a growing coalition of knowledge and funding partners, and building on previous work on regulatory innovation, Dark Matter Labs is working on accelerating the transition to a circular economy by enabling and stimulating more and better use of existing laws and regulations, as well as better understanding regulatory gaps, voids and barriers. This is done through research, exploration and creating of multiple services, including communities of practice and the creation of a legal knowledge platform, circulaw.nl. Policymakers can navigate opportunities and possibilities in existing laws and regulations for different themes, like timber construction and circular wind turbines. The insights are created through systemic legal analysis based on a methodology developed by the CircuLaw team and shared through a comprehensive overview of instruments on the online platform. We help policymakers select and apply those instruments. And we provide insights into the distribution of authority across the multiple levels of government, to enhance collaboration and enable sense-making of where regulatory change will be needed to achieve ambitious transition goals.

Contributor

Theo Campbell

Working on civic tech project at Dark Matter Labs