Prof Eloise Scotford: Environmental Principles and UK Environmental Law: Stable Foundations or Minefields?

Event date: 
Thursday 21 February to Friday 22 February
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Old College

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/other_areas_of_interest/events/event?id=256088

21st Feb 2019 at 6:00pm

Old College

 

Brodies LLP Environmental Law Lecture Series

The Charles Smith Memorial Lecture

Environmental Principles and UK Environmental Law: Stable Foundations or Minefields?

 

Prof Eloise Scotford, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL

 

Registration Required: https://charles_smith_lecture.eventbrite.co.uk  

 

About the Speaker:

Professor Scotford joined UCL in 2017 from The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. She joined King’s as Lecturer in September 2010, following three years as Career Development Fellow in Environmental Law, Faculty of Law and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Professor Scotford obtained the University Medal in Law in her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. After working as Associate to the Chief Justice of Australia in Canberra and as lecturer at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, she successfully read for the BCL, MPhil, and DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Professor Scotford has been a Trustee of the Council of Management of the UK Environmental Law Association and currently sits on UKELA’s Brexit Taskforce. She has advised Defra, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Environment Agency on matters of environmental law. She is currently an Associate Member of Landmark Chambers, a member of the Avosetta group of EU environmental law experts, and Analysis Editor the Journal of Environmental Law.