A number of LLB\nEnvironmental Law and Justice students participated in the student-led\nEnvironmental Law Conference at Swansea on 3 April, presenting on a variety of\ntopics. They did so alongside students from Swansea and the University of the\nWest of England. This excellent event was organised by Swansea student\nCharlotte Hassall, working under the supervision of leading academic Tory\nJenkins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of the Cardiff\ncontribution, Shalom Nkashaba and Ed Farrell were the first to present, giving\na dialogue-style paper on the strengths and weaknesses of UK fracking\nregulatory law. Next, Nadine Salter examined animal agriculture from a climate\nchange perspective, in the context of growing support for vegan attitudes to\nfood consumption. In the afternoon were two presentations on Brexit and the\nEnvironment. Tom Rowlands explored the reforms to the Common Agricultural\nPolicy under the Agriculture Bill. He was followed by Thanos Georgoulas, who\nexamined the policy underpinnings of environmental law outside the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Student travel to the conference was supported by EJRU. A huge thank you to Thanos, for coordinating the event from a student perspective. A particularly striking feature of the Cardiff student papers was the pervasive mix of politics and law \u2013 as befitting our multi-disciplinary Unit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Student blogging<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can read some of the great student blogs that third year students on the Global Environmental Politics module wrote for their 1,000 word blog assessment here<\/a>. Each blog offers a thorough account of the science and politics of the issue and provides insightful personal perspectives on how and why we must respond to these forms of global environmental degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Trip to New York for Dr Richard Caddell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2019, Dr Richard Caddell participated at the\nSecond Intergovernmental Conference on an internationally legally binding\ninstrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the\nconservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity or areas beyond\nnational jurisdiction, at the UN building in New York. He also participated at\na side event at the negotiations, organised by the Nereus Program, entitled\n“No Fish Left Behind: Fisheries and BBNJ”, presenting a paper\nentitled “Fisheries and Environmental Assessment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Grand Finale for Imagining the Eco-Social Series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professors Jane Bennett and William Connolly<\/a> will be coming to Cardiff University in December 2019 as capstone speakers for the New Materialist Reflections on the Anthropocene series<\/a>. Bennett is best known for her groundbreaking book,\u00a0Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 one of the most celebrated and discussed New Materialist texts. Connolly is similarly distinguished and celebrated. We are very much looking forward to their visit and two-days of activities to celebrate their work and the end of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forthcoming events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n May is a busy month for\nEJRU and we hope that many of you will be able to join us for the following\nevents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14th May<\/strong>, 1-3pm, room 2.29a\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teresa Dillon, Professor of City Futures, Bristol UWE<\/p>\n\n\n\n COP 24: Researching\nUN Climate Change Conference<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15th May<\/strong>, 1-2pm, room 1.28 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Jen Allan, Dr Hannah\nHughes, Mulugeta Sisay and Valeria Tolis<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20th May<\/strong>, 1-2pm, room 2.29<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Post-Colonial\nEvolution of Water Rights: A comparative look at India and the United\nStates<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesse J. Richardson, West\nVirginia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n For further information or any of the above events please email Hannah Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In April 2019, Richard Caddell and Erik J. Molenaar at Utrecht University, published Strengthening International Fisheries Law in and Era of Changing Oceans<\/em> with Hart Publishing. The book is a cross-disciplinary collection, albeit with a primarily legal focus, which features contributions from a number of leading experts on international law, management, policy, science and economics relating to fisheries. Richard authored a chapter entitled \u201cInternational Fisheries Law and Interactions with Global Regimes and Processes\u201d 133-163 and co-authored chapters on \u201cArea-Based Fisheries Management\u201d (with Daniel C. Dunn and Guillermo Ortuno Crespo) 189-217 and \u201cEmerging Regulatory Responses to Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (with George Leloudas and Baris Soyer) 393-420. Other recent publications by Richard include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Role of Human Rights in Implementing Socially Responsible Seafood\u201d (2019) 14 PLOS One<\/em> e0210241 (with Lydia Teh, Edward Allison, Elena Finkbeier, John Kittinger Katrina Nakamura and Yoshitaka Ota). <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cManaging Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction in the Changing Arctic\u201d (2018) 112 American Journal of International Law: Unbound<\/em> 134-138 (with Timo Koivurova) <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/environmental-justice-research-unit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2019\/04\/fullsizeoutput_903.jpeg?resize=241%2C110\")