
CircuLaw
Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition
2020–
Partners
City of Amsterdam
AMS Institute
Built by Nature
Circulaire bouweconomie
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Ministerie van Financiën
Provincie Flevoland
Provincie Noord-Holland
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland
TU Delft
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wageningen Universiteit

In light of the escalating breakdown in our climate and the natural world, we need to transition to a circular economy, amongst other fundamental changes. Accelerating this transition requires a systemic shift in how we produce, build and consume, using multiple levers of change. Although law and regulation are often viewed as a barrier to change, they also offer opportunities that can be leveraged to speed up or scale the circular transition. The regulatory system is an often underappreciated societal scale device that can facilitate the shifting of markets and behaviours.
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.
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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.
circulaw.nl︎
Open Research︎
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We’re a distributed team with presence around the world.
Netherlands
Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 181K
1019 HC Amsterdam
KvK number: 75174405
United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
Company number: 13294211
Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1755 Rue Saint-Patrick app C-403
Montréal (Québec), H3K 3G9
Numéro de l'organisation / Corporation number: 1196376-7
South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
#301, Pyeongtaek 5-ro 20beon-gil 8,
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
경기도 평택시 평택5로 20번길 8, 301호, 우편번호 17902
사업자등록증: 808-88-01717
Sweden
Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
Netherlands
Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 181K
1019 HC Amsterdam
KvK number: 75174405
United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
Company number: 13294211
Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1755 Rue Saint-Patrick app C-403
Montréal (Québec), H3K 3G9
Numéro de l'organisation / Corporation number: 1196376-7
South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
#301, Pyeongtaek 5-ro 20beon-gil 8,
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
경기도 평택시 평택5로 20번길 8, 301호, 우편번호 17902
사업자등록증: 808-88-01717
Sweden
Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
We are part of Project 00︎
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