Law and the Environment 2016: Novel Challenges – Novel Solutions: Innovation in Environmental Law & Policy

Law and the Environment 2016:
Novel Challenges – Novel Solutions: Innovation in Environmental Law & Policy
Venue: Booles 1,3 and 4, University College Cork
April 21, 2016

In addition to the novel challenges to the application and practice of environmental law presented by new technologies and materials, such as ‘fracking’, GMO crops or nanotechnology, environmental regulators are striving to develop new and more effective approaches to the design and enforcement of environmental regulatory regimes. In addition, researchers of environmental law are increasingly prepared to question the sources and characteristics of rules, processes and principles that condition the environmentally-relevant behaviour of all key actors in this field. This event seeks to examine the nature and implications of such developments and to reflect upon the direction in which environmental law appears to appears to moving.

Confirmed speakers include:
Mr Peter Kellett, Director of Legal Services, UK Environment Agency: Balancing the carrot of Enforcement Undertakings against the stick of the Sentencing Council Guideline on environmental offences for England and Wales

Prof Michelle Bryan, University of Montana School of Law: Asserting Local Control: Examining the Phenomenon of Grassroots Regulation over Unconventional Oil & Gas Development in the United States

Dr Leonie Reins, Faculty of Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Regulation of innovative technologies - does the climate change?

Dr Mary Dobbs, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast: Genetically modified crops, agricultural sustainability and national opt-outs – Enclosure as the Loophole?

Dr Berna Grist, School of Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin: Ethics and Lobbying and Planning

Prof Lorraine Talbot, York Law School, The University of York: Why the Company Cannot Promote Sustainability and What Needs to Change

Prof Ronan Long and Mariamalia Rodriquez Chaves, School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway: Anatomy of a New International Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity in ABNJ: What’s in it for Ireland and the EU?

Mr Brendan Slattery, Doyle & Company Solicitors, Dublin: Decision-Making on Energy Infrastructure: Can An Bord Pleanála be trusted to carry out EIA and AA?

Dr Celine McInerney, Department of Accounting and Finance, University College Cork: Community Ownership of Renewable Energy Assets – Structures and Considerations

Ms Alison Hardiman B.L.: Strategic Infrastructure Projects in Irish Planning and Development Law

Dr Raphael Heffron, Queen Mary University of London: Fracking, the Energy Trilemma and Paris COP21: Irish Energy Law at a Crossroads.

Mr Eoin Fannon, Office of the Attorney General and Mr Andy McGill, Ordnance Survey of Ireland: Straight Baselines: What are they and how do we identify them?

Speakers will present in a range of specialist sessions, including:
- New Perspectives on Environmental Law and Regulation;
- New Approaches to Environmental Enforcement;
- Contemporary Developments in Planning Law;
- The Sustainable Corporation;
- New Approaches in Marine Environmental Law;
- New Approaches in Energy Law and Policy;
- The Changing Landscape of Environmental Obligations for Business;
- Emerging Regulatory Challenges: UGEE, GMOs, Nanotechnology

Continuing Professional Development: 7 hours Group Study (General)

Enquiries: Noreen Delea, Events Manager, School of Law, UCC

Email: Phone: 021 490 3220

The programme for the event is available at here

 

REGISTRATION OPTIONS

Single Delegate, Standard Fee: €195

Academics, Standard Fee: €150

Two Delegates Attending: €300

NGOs: €95.00

Students (no charge to attend but must register online)