Professor of Environmental Law    

Research interests

My current work focuses on controversial aspects of environmental decision-making and on the interplay between human rights and environmental law.    

Recent Publications

Books

(with Sean Coyle): A Philosophical Foundation for Environmental Law (Hart, Oxford 2004).

Articles and Chapter Contributions    

(2011), “The Public, the Courts and Participation in Environmental Decision-making in the UK” in B. Boer, J. Benidickson, A. Herman Benjamin and K. Morrow (eds.) Environmental Law and Sustainability After Rio, (Edward Elgar).

(2011), A Continuing Role for Ecofeminism?’ in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.) ‘Critical Environmental Law’ (Routledge)

(2011), With R Cantley-Smith ‘Sustainable Regulation – Moving Towards Sustainable Energy Markets’ (Martinus Nijhoff).

(2010), ‘Risk and Public Participation in Decision-making on GMOs’ in L. Bodiguel and M. Cardwell (eds.) The Regulation Of Genetically Modified Organisms (Oxford University Press)..

(2010), ‘Sustainable Development, Major Groups and Stakeholder Dialogue – Lessons from the UN’ Chapter 5 in D. French (ed) Global Justice and Sustainable Development (Martinus Nijhof)

(2010), ‘The Trafigura Litigation and liability for unlawful trade in hazardous waste: time for a re-think? Environmental Liability Issue 6 Volume 18, pp 219-230.

(2010), ‘Worth the paper that they are written on? Human Rights and the environment in the law of England and Wales’, JHRE 1(1), 2010 pp 66-88   

(2009), The Role of the Judiciary in developing Environmental Governance in the UK’, in K. Deketelaere, L. Kotz and A. Paterson (eds.) The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance: Comparative Perspectives, (Kluwer).   

(2009) ‘Not so much a meeting of minds as a coincidence of means: Ecofeminism and the UN’  pp 111-130 in D Mitra and K Basu (eds.) Ecofeminism: An Overview, (Icfai University Press, Hyderabad,).   

(2009), K. Morrow: “European Habitat Conservation Activities and Individual Property Rights: Law and the Meaning of LIFE’, Italian American Law Digest, Vol 17, pp301-320. 2008 ‘Actualising Sustainability in the United Kingdom – Recent Developments in Devolved and Local Government’ pp171-183 in K. Bosselmann, R. Engel and P. Taylor (eds.) A Guide to Governance for Sustainability- Issues, Challenges and Successes Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 70, (IUCN, The World Conservation Union) also at . http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/eplp_70_governance_for_sustainability.pdf   

(2007), 'England and Wales' in Tort and Regulatory Law Series: Tort and Insurance Law, Vol. 19 van Boom, Willem H.; Lukas, Meinhard; Kissling, Christa (Eds.)pp*.   

(2007), 'On Winning the battle but losing the War … R (on the Application of Greenpeace Ltd) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry' [2007] EWHC 311, Env LR 29' ELR, 10.1, p65 et seq.

(2006), 'Gender, international law and the emergence of environmental citizenship' and contribution to 'Conclusions' in S. Buckinghamand G Lievesley (eds.): 'In the Hands of Women – Paradigms of Citizenship (Manchester University Press, 2006).

(2005), 'Not so Much a Meeting of Minds as a Coincidence of Means: Ecofeminism, Gender Mainstreaming and the UN', Thomas Jefferson law Journal.

(2005), 'The Rights Question': The Initial Impact of The Human Rights Act on Domestic Law relating to the Environment', Journal of Planning and Environmental Law.

(2004), 'Public Participation in the Assessment of the Effects of Certain Plans and Programmes on the Environment: Directive 2001/42/EC, the UNECE Espoo Convention and the Kiev Protocol', European Yearbook of Environmental Law, Vol. 4.

(2001), (with Holly Cullen) 'International Civil Society in International Law: The Growth of NGO Participation' Non-State Actors and International Law, (Invited contribution to inaugural issue), pp 7-39.

Other Publications   

(2011), K.Morrow (and A. Paterson) ‘A Word from the Editors: Putting the World to Rights?’ IUCN E-Journal (Vol 2.1) at  http://www.iucnael.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=157%3Aissue-20111&catid=86%3Aissue&Itemid=75&lang=en

(2011), K. Morrow: ‘Ontological Vulnerability:  A viable alternate lens through which to view human/environmental relations?’ pp1-3.

(2010), K. Morrow: ‘Climate Change and Human Rights: the defining dilemma of our times?’ Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, pp131-134.

(2010), K. Morrow: ‘Of Babies and Bathwater’ Environmental Law Review, pp179-181.

Reports   

(2010), K. Morrow: ‘Your Rights in Planning Decisions’ (amendments for Wales) Environmental Law foundation.

(2004), UK Contribution to international workshop and report for the Dutch Government: 'Integratie vergeleken: Buitenlandse milieuwetgeving als mogelijke inspiratie voor de verdere ontwikkeling van de Wet milieubeheer' by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Maastricht and Universiteit van Tilburg.

Papers    

Natural resources: biodiversity, food security and fisheries at Legal Aspects of the Green Economy Workshop, Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, November 2011.

Marine Spatial Planning – Opportunities and Challenges, a perspective from Wales, Marine Knowledge Network, Brussels, October 2011

The Probo Koala Incident and Corporate Responsibility at, Re-engineering the Corporation: The Corporation and the Environment, School of Law Queen’s University of Belfast/ESRC June 2011

The Local Environment – What Are My Rights? Environmental Law Foundation, Cardiff, 2011

After the Vote – what lies ahead for Wales? Hot Topics Environmental Law UKELA, May 2011

Resources and the University: A Perspective from Wales’ UCL Environment Institute, and the UK Centre for Legal Education London, September 2008 UCL Environment Institute, and the UK Centre for Legal Education London, May 2010   

‘Sustainable Development, Major Groups and Stakeholder Dialogue – Lessons from the UN’, at Global Justice and Sustainable Development Conference, ILA Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development and Sheffield School of Law, August 2009   

‘Perspectives on Environmental Law: A Continuing Contribution for Ecofeminism?’, at Critical Environmental Law, University of Westminster, London, June, 2009   

‘Mainstreaming Sustainability – How can the University Contribute?’ at The Sustainable University: Relating Ecological Thinking, Learning and Research symposium hosted by the Faculty of Laws & UCL Environment Institute, and the UK Centre for Legal Education London, September 2008   

‘Sustainable Regulation – Moving Towards Sustainable Energy Markets’ with R. Cantley-Smith at the Monash University Europe Centre Conference, “Securing Sustainable Energy Supplies in Europe and Australia”, Prato, Italy, November 2008.    

‘The Meaning of LIFE: the Legal Implications Species and Habitat Conservation and the Nature Strand of the EU’s Financial Instrument for the Environment’. Paper delivered at the joint US/EU Law and Society Conference, Berlin, July 2007.   

‘The Public, the Courts and Participation in Environmental Decision-making in the UK’. 5th Worldwide Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, ‘Rio +15: A legal critique of ecologically sustainable development’, Brazil, June 2007.   

‘Recent Developments in Climate Change and Clean Energy in Wales’. IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Seminar: “Climate Protection, Clean Energy and Environmental Law”, Faculty of Law, University of Malta, May 2007.   

'Sustainable Energy? Adding Social and Economic Dimensions to Energy Markets', PCSE of Syracuse University College of Law & Chapman University School of Law Workshop: "Property Transactions and Transitions in an Age of Globalization. 15-16 February 2008.   

Energy Law and Policy in Wales', UCL and Kent University PG Study Weekend: Climate Change - Law and Policy, Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales, 23-25 November 2007.   

'Global Governance and Gender: Gender Mainstreaming, Sustainable Development and the UN', 12th Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2006, University of Hong Kong, April 2006.   

'UK contribution to the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law' (ECTIL) 5th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Tort and Regulatory Law, Vienna, 2006.   

'Not So Much a Meeting of Minds as a Coincidence of Means: Ecofeminism, Gender Mainstreaming and the UN', at the Fifth Annual Women and the Law Conference: The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory, Thomas Jefferson Law School, San Diego, 2005.   

'The Rights Question: The Human Rights Act and the Environment', International and European Environmental and Energy Law Lecture Series, Organised in association with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Imperial College, 2005.   

'Gender Mainstreaming in the UN', Staff Seminar, Louis Brandeis Law School, University of Louisville, 2004.   

'UK Contribution to international workshop and report for the Dutch Government: 'Integratie vergeleken: Buitenlandse milieuwetgeving als mogelijke inspiratie voor de verdere ontwikkeling van de Wet milieubeheer' by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Maastricht and Universiteit van Tilburg, 2004.   

'Public Participation in the Assessment of the Effects of Certain Plans and Programmes on the Environment: Directive 2001/42/EC, the UNECE Espoo Convention and the Kiev Protocol' at the Year Book of International Environmental Law Conference, University of Leuven, August 2003.   

'Nuisance, Human Rights and the Environment' at the British Association of Canadian Studies Conference, London, 2003.   

'Transformation of the concept of sustainable development into planning and environmental law in the United Kingdom' at the European Academy of the Urban Environment International Congress 'The Agenda 21 sustainability call; how it is translated into environmental and planning law' Berlin, 2001.   

'Interdisciplinary symposium on 'Women, Human Rights and the Environment' at Brunel University, 2001.

'The Philosophy of Environmental Law – Property and the Environment' (with Dr. Sean Coyle) to the Environment Section of the Society for the Public Teachers of Law, Glasgow, 2001.

Relevant Activities

-Co-Editor in Chief Journal of Human Rights and the Environment   

-Co-Editor in Chief IUCN E-Journal   

-Associate Member Monash European and EU Law Centre, Prato, Italy.   

-IUCN Academy of Environmental Law contact.   

-Society of Public Teachers of Law (Deputy Convenor for the Environmental Law Panel, Council Member representing Swansea).   

-Visiting member of Faculty at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.   

-Faculty Member of the International Working Group on Property, Community and Social Entrepreneurism (PCSE), University of Syracuse, USA.   

-Editorial board member, Environmental Law Review.

Research Supervision

"I would welcome proposals or enquiries for research into environmental law at international, EU and/or domestic levels, in particular on aspects of participation in environmental decision-making."