Dr Victoria Jenkins
Victoria is an Associate Professor in the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law where she has worked since 1999. Her research interests lie in environmental law, specifically legal approaches to sustainable development and the way in which land use planning, landscape and nature conservation laws seek to protect natural resources.
Victoria is also co-convenor of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association Wales, Working Party. This group aims to bring together academics, legal practitioners, non-governmental organisations and others with an interest in environmental protection.
Victoria is particularly interested in the impact of devolution on environmental protection in Wales. She has written a report for UKELA on Wales, Brexit and Environmental Law and completed a Fellowship with the Welsh Parliament on how the sustainable management of natural resources in Wales might be used as a lens through which to explore possible approaches to UK Common Frameworks after Brexit. She has also published widely on approaches to planning and environmental law in Wales, including in the Journal of Planning Law and the Journal of Environmental Law.
Practice Areas
Panel
- Welsh Panel
Experience
- Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law (1999 - Present)
Membership
- United Kingdom Environmental Law Association – co-convenor of UKELA Wales Working Party
- Society of Legal Scholars
Qualifications
- (LLB) (1994)
- PhD (2000)
Education
- University of Cardiff (1991-1994)(1995-1998)
1 Contributions by Victoria Jenkins
PRACTICE NOTES
Environment (Wales) Act 2016: SMNR framework, NRW powers, biodiversity duties, NRP/area statements, climate targets, waste separation and incineration bans, marine licensing, fisheries, flood and coastal erosion—practitioner overview
Environment (Wales) Act 2016
The Welsh Government brought forward the Environment (Wales) Bill (E(W) Bill) on 11 May 2015. The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (E(W)A 2016) obtained Royal Assent on 21 March 2016. E(W)A 2016 includes a degree of tidying of environmental matters in Wales, revising statutory targets for cutting emissions and carbon budgets, as well as clarifying the law for other environmental regulatory systems, including flood risk management and land drainage. This Practice Note does not, however, address those provisions. This analysis concentrates chiefly on E(W)A 2016, Part 1, which sets out detailed provisions intended to safeguard and to secure the goods and services produced by ecosystems, and to underpin the sustainable management of natural resources in Wales. Consequently, and building further on the establishment of a single environmental body in Wales (Natural Resources Wales—NRW), it amounted to a reframing of environmental law in Wales. This Practice Note also examines specific provisions in E(W)A 2016 on the management of secondary material resources from waste streams, and these measures will likewise be considered briefly. E(W)A 2016 commenced in part on 24 February 2017 and in full on 1 April 2017. For more information on other parts of E(W)A 2016, see...
Environment
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