2019 Festival of Environmental Law & Governance

Featuring academics, experts from national fisheries and enforcement agencies, environmental prosecutors, and international agencies, this roundtable event will bring together academics and national/international policy makers to discuss the challenges of international cooperation to combat illegal fisheries and fisheries crime for sustainable oceans governance.

This event will focus on bringing together animal and environmental law academics, practitioners and students in an effort to inspire further animal law scholarship and education in Scotland.The goal is to facilitate new research partnerships in animal law and to highlight opportunities for students and young researchers or established academics interested in sidestepping into animal law.

Latin America is often misunderstood in Britain. Its history and complex current socio-political landscape often blur into one. This event will bring to life the different facets existing in Latin America with a focus on natural resources governance. Bringing together leading experts and practitioners, conflict and socially committed futures in the field of natural resources governance will be presented. We wish to explore how Europe can learn from Latin America and how Europe, in its own ways, is also facing conflict and narratives of resistance.

Human rights and international biodiversity law: Hiding in plain sight? In her inaugural lecture, Prof Morgera will reflect on under-utilised opportunities under international biodiversity law and human rights to contribute to equity and sustainability from local to international levels.

This is a two day event on the 1st and 2nd of May. You must register for both days seperately.

The Colloquium provides an opportunity for Ph.D., MPhil and LLM students engaged in research in any area of environmental law and governance to present and discuss their work, or part of it, in a supportive environment. It also provides an opportunity for environmental research students to meet and network with other peers and experts working in this area of law.

This is a two day event on the 1st and 2nd of May. You must register for both days seperately.

The Colloquium provides an opportunity for Ph.D., MPhil and LLM students engaged in research in any area of environmental law and governance to present and discuss their work, or part of it, in a supportive environment. It also provides an opportunity for environmental research students to meet and network with other peers and experts working in this area of law.

This event will feature the results of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) project 'Law, Arts and Island Resilience'led by the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) and Glasgow School of Arts (GSA) Reading Landscape Research Group. The project focused on resilience and sustainability on Uist in the context of the Islands (Scotland) Bill. It explored the question of how island communities can engage in political and legal processes to promote sustainable development and, in particular, the role of creativity in such processes.

Prof Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary University London) will devote her guest lecture to discuss whaling as an unresolved issue, not only for international law, but also for ethics.