Biography
Eva Meyermans Spelmans (LLM) is a PhD candidate in European law at the Law and Markets department. Her research focuses on the EU green transition of the fashion industry and the impact thereof on sustainability and human rights in the global value chain of the fashion industry. She explores how law created the current economic conditions, such as the power imbalance between the different players in the GVC, reinforces social injustices.
Before starting her PhD at Erasmus, she worked as a junior lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam. She holds an LL.M. degree from Utrecht University (Master of European Law) as well as a Master's Degree in Law from Ghent University. Her research interests are sustainability and human rights in the fashion industry, and the protection of linguistic minorities.
Erasmus School of Law
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Work
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2026) - Waarom je rechten moet studeren - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2026) - Geen reclame meer voor fast fashion? - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2026) - There is no away: Unravelling waste colonialism with F. Irene Lanyero - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Modekolonialisme: van jouw kast naar hun afvalberg - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Op-Ed: āTaking Back Waste From an Illegal Shipment? One Shall Recover or Dispose as Well: NaturvĆ„rdsverket (C-221/24 and C-222/24)ā - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Versleten zomershirt: poetsdoek of winterjas? - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Hoe krijg je fast fashion uit de mode - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Fast Fashion, Slow Transition: Social and Environmental Rights at the Heart of a Sustainable Transition in the Textile Industry - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans & Elena Izyumenko (2025) - Research Workshop Report: āThe (Evolving) Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws?ā - [link]
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2024) - Ecodesign XL: van energie-efficiƫntie naar een circulaire economie in de textielindustrie - Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht, 2024 (5-6) - doi: 10.5553/NtER/138241202024030005001
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (6 september 2026) - Fraudejacht van Vinted slaat door: waarom de strengere aanpak niet helpt
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (20 augustus 2026) - Is fast fashion in 2030 uit de mode? Frankrijk verbiedt reclame voor Shein en Temu
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (1 juli 2026) - Frankrijk erkent schade van vrije markt en verbiedt reclame voor kledingmerken Shein en Temu
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans, Silvia Ciacchi & Nicky Touw (2026) - Human Rights Due Diligence Beyond Compliance - Up and Down the Value Chain (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2026) - European University Institute, Firenze (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans & Giulia Contes (2026) - Cracking the Brussels Bubble: How Youth and Workers Can Win (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation āŗ Professional - Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - From Linear to Circular? Reshaping the Textile Market through Law (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Sustainability through Human Rights Due Diligence in the Apparel Industry? An Analysis of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive within Global Supply Chain Capitalism (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans, Sarah Vandenbroucke, Gustavo Becker & Nicky Touw (2025) - Multi-stakeholder Collaboration under the CSDDD (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Transforming Relations in the Global Value Chain of the Fashion Industry: The Role of Human Rights Due Diligence as Part of the EU Textiles Strategy (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans, Nicky Touw, Gustavo Becker & Sarah Vandenbroucke (2025) - Roundtable discussion: Supplier Codes of Conduct: From Policy to Practice (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans & Elena Izyumenko (2024) - The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: What Impact on Intellectual Property Laws?ā (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event āŗ Academic - Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2024) - Transforming Relations in the Global Value Chain of the Fashion Industry: the Role of the EU Textiles Strategy (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation āŗ Academic
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans, Silvia Ciacchi & Nicky Touw (2026) - Research Grant (Sector-Plan 'Rebalancing Public & Private Interests')
- Eva Meyermans Spelmans (2025) - Face of Science
Research and Writing Skills
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- RB51
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- RS149
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- RS20
Research and Writing Skills
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- RT44
