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Prof Maria Lee
Professor of Law
Faculty of Laws
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2007
Research summary
Maria's research interests lie in the law and policy of environmental protection. She is particularly interested in the ways we make decisions on environmental matters, including in areas of high technological complexity and controversy. She concentrates on the governance of decision making, examining the ways in which law implicates issues like the use of expertise or public participation.
Maria's most recent work pursues these ideas in two key areas. First, she has recently published a co-authored monograph on the ways in which environmental groups use and understand legal expertise. And second, she has recently co-edited a volume on Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously. Her current work involves revisiting the Aarhus Convention on its 25th anniversary.
Maria has also spent a great deal of time exploring the ways in which Brexit affects environmental law.
A full list of publications can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7778-2766.
Teaching summary
Maria teaches tort law and environmental law at undergraduate level, and contributes to arange of modules on the UCL LLM in environmental law and policy. She led the creation and development of the Faculty’s innovativeinduction programme for new undergraduates, Laws’ Connections: Legal Doctrineand Contemporary Challenges, as well as the Climate Change case study onthat module.
Maria Lee has supervised PhDs on a range of areas of environmental law, risk regulation and tort.
Education
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ04 - Recognised by the HEA as a Senior Fellow | 2018
- College of Law, London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Certificate | 1994
- The College of Europe
- Other higher degree, Master of Laws | 1993
- University of Nottingham
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 1992
Biography
Maria joined UCL as a Professorof Law in 2007, and was director and co-director of the UCL Centre for Law and the Environment for over a decade. She has been a memberof the editorial committees of a number of journals, including the ModernLaw Review and the Environmental Law Review and (currently) the Journal of EnvironmentalLaw, and the advisory committee of Transnational Environmental Law.
She was a member of the ExecutiveCommittee of the Society of Legal Scholars until 2021, and continues to chair their Research Grants Committee.
Maria was a member of the RoyalCommission on Environmental Pollution 2009-2011, and of Greener UK’s Brexit ScenariosGroup 2016-2020.
Maria taught previously at King's College London and at the University of Central Lancashire.