UCC School of Law: Law and Environment Conference 2017 – 27 April, University College Cork

Date:     27 April 2017

Time:    8:30 am – 6:30 pm

Venue: Boole Lecture Theatres 1, 3 and 4, University College Cork

UCC School of Law hosts its 15^th Annual Law and the Environment Conference, entitled ‘Environmental Principles – Between Flexibility and Opacity’. The conference provides a forum for the expert presentation of legal developments and research results in the area of Environmental Law, Regulation and Policy, as well as an informal forum for the exchange of views among policy-makers and regulators, regulated operators, the environmental NGO community, and Irish (and overseas) academic researchers and professionals.

This year’s event boasts an expanded programme of speakers, comprising over 30 individual presentations arranged into a range of specialist sessions covering all aspects of Principles of Environmental Law, as well as such sectoral areas as: 

• Legal Responses to Climate Change;
• Energy Law and Policy;
• Marine Environmental Law;
• Aquaculture and Fisheries Law;
• Contemporary Developments in Planning Law;
• Corporate Law and the Environment. 

Click here to register and to view the full conference programme.