Policy and practice seminars

Policy seminars are held on Thursday lunch time, 1-2 pm, SR 7. Lunch will be provided , but you must sign up at doodle. These seminars are primarily for current environmental law students – anyone else who would like to attend, please email maria.lee@ucl.ac.uk

 13 Nov           Halina Ward, Future Programmes Manager, Bond for International Development, Title tbc

 27 Nov          Ludwig Kramer, Former senior official DG Environment, European Commission, consultant ClientEarth, EU Environmental Law and Policy – Is there a Good Story to Tell?

4 Dec Judge Meredith Wright, Vermont Environment Court 1990-2011, Why do we need Environmental Courts?

 15 Jan            Jake White, legal adviser, Friends of the Earth,  Environmental law under fire

 5 Feb              Elizabeth Hiester, Senior Lawyer, ClientEarth, Access to environmental information- a Swiss Army knife for public interest environmental lawyers

26 Feb            Kim Bouwer, UCL PhD candidate, Unsexy climate change litigation

19 March       Simon Burall, Director, Involve (http://www.involve.org.uk/), Soft vs hard accountability and the role of publics

Note other events

20^th Nov         UKELA’s annual Garner lecture, from Lord Chris Smith, former Chair of the Environment Agency – booking details not currently available, check the UKELA website

11^th Dec         UCL Current Legal Problems Lecture, Bettina Lange (University of Oxford) Mapping a new regulatory space: The case of managing water scarcity in the UK, details and (free) registration at Lange