Kent Professor of Environmental Law William Howarth will chair the annual Public International Environmental Law (PIEL) conference in April.
Entitled ‘Satisfying Consumption: Trade and the Environment’, the conference will examine the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement along with issues such as waste and the trade in endangered wildlife.
Speakers include Nicolas de Sadeleer (Saint-Louis University, Brussels), Tom Burke CBE (E3G) Samuel Lowe (Friends of the Earth) and Alan Bates (Monckton Chambers). It will be held at Cass Business School in London on Thursday 9 April.
The PIEL UK conference is organised each year by a committee of postgraduate environmental law students. The event typically attracts around 200 students, academics and practitioners, and is sponsored by Universities, NGOs and law firms. Teams of postgraduate students from Kent Law School have previously been involved with one team helping to establish the inaugural conference in 2007.
Earlier this month, Professor Howarth chaired a policy briefing event highlighting the impact of environmental crime in the UK. The Government Knowledge conference, ‘Environmental Crime: Protecting the Environment Through Enforcement and Prosecution‘, held in London on 11 March, explored recent changes to policy and practice and the future impact of international discussions.
Professor Howarth is co-convenor of Kent Law School’s LLM programmes in Environmental Law and Policy, and International Environmental Law.
Among other editorial work, he is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Environmental Law, and Environmental Law and Management. He is also a former editor of the Journal of Water Law and is an active member of the International Association for Water Law, the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association, the Agricultural Law Association and the Institution of Fisheries Management.
His external appointments also include membership of the ESRC Research Assessment Panel and AHRC Peer Review College, fellowships of the Royal Society of Arts and Institute of Water and Management, and serving as honorary legal advisor to the Institute of Fisheries Management.
Read more about Professor Howarth’s research interests on his staff profile and find out more about Kent’s LLM programmes in environmental law on our Environmental Law sub-site.