Professor Robert Lee , LLD
Robert Lee has worked both in academia and legal practice. He has acted as an advisor to a number of international agencies including UNEP, UNDP, The European Parliament and the European Commission.
He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Society and is environmental editor for the Journal of Business Law. He is currently working on two large research programme, PrecisonTox, funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme, which concerns methodologies for chemical risk assessment and Met4Tech, funded by UKRI which explores a circular economy in technology metals.
Practice Area
Panels
- Consulting Editorial Board
- Welsh Panel
Experience
- Co-Director, ESRC Research Centre on Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff University (2001 - 2012)
- Dean, Birmingham Law School (2015 - 2019)
Membership
- Honorary Life Member, UK Environmental Law Association
- Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
- Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Qualifications
- LLB (1976)
- LLD (2009)
Education
- Brunel University (1976)
1 Contributions by Robert Lee
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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