For the first Environmental Law Guest Seminar of the Spring term, Kent Law School was pleased to welcome back alumna Claire Walls for a talk on ‘Working as an environmental regulatory analyst for eRevalue.’
Since obtaining her LLM in International Environmental Law at Kent, Claire is now working for eRevalue, a tech start-up company based in London and New York providing Artificial Intelligence (AI) business intelligence tools.
This company helps its customers to increase their productivity choosing good corporate governance strategies.
The seminar started out with a clear presentation on the company’s structure and objectives, then Claire explained the business intelligence platform they offer to companies in order to make informed data driven decisions.
eRevalue is a small (but perfectly formed) company with at least 22 employees and they offer a great service for their customers to help them manage legal and environmental issues.
The main product is their platform ‘Datamaran’. It is an AI platform that provides business intelligence analytics for corporations. With a wide range of experts in different fields, eRevalue gives to the companies an analytics platform to deal with the vast amount of data on regulatory and emerging risks related to the latest economic, environmental and social issues.
As Claire told us, every customer has their own profile on Datamaran and this database enables companies to control what data they access, on demand as they want.
As an environmental analyst, Claire has to deal with the environmental legal framework collecting and analysing data in order to create a proper report for customers.
Claire concluded by telling us the reasons that pushed her to choose this type of career instead of becoming a lawyer. Like, for instance, the more investments in time and money that a law career needs. She wanted to start quickly a new experience, working with environment-related issues in legal field. Obviously, there are also difficulties and challenges that she has to overcome. For instance, the most difficult thing is, sometimes, to deal with deadlines to finish the reports for customers.
At the end, Professor Martin Hedemann-Robinson, who is the Convenor of the programme, the organising team and all the students thanked Claire for her presentation.
Report by LLM student Fabio Massimo Battaglia
The LLM Environmental Law Seminar Series has been designed specifically for students with an interest in the environmental law modules offered within the School’s one-year Master’s in Law programme, the Kent LLM.
Kent LLM students can graduate with a specialism in either Environmental Law or International Environmental Law by (i) opting to study at least three (out of six) modules from those associated with the specialism of their choice and by (ii) focusing the topic of their dissertation on their chosen specialism.
More information about environmental law research, events and academics at Kent can be found on the Environmental Law mini-site. More information about studying the Kent LLM (and choosing your specialism) can be found on our postgraduate pages.