The UKELA Conference 2013 at Cambridge University should be the best UKELA event since Manchester with useful topics for practitioners, excellent speakers and Saturday afternoon Punting.
ELM Law will be there with our friends at GroundSure and 39 Essex Street.
Topics for discussion include
• Future trends in Environmental Law practice
• Will the pure environmental lawyer exist in future?
• How can environmental lawyers be relevant to their corporate and finance partners?
• EU environmental law and policy over the last 25 years – good or bad for the UK?
• The role of the EU in influencing UK environmental law
• Developments in the US: Superfund Mega-Sites; “transaction trigger” laws; what can be expected from the EPA in Obama’s second term
With environmental pressures increasing, both at home and internationally, and having a direct effect on quality of life on the planet, how can legislation and regulation deliver what is needed? Is the system fit for purpose or creaking at the seams?
The full programme is available on the UKELA website http://www.ukela.org
In addition to Britain’s finest Britain’s finest Stephen Tromans QC and Justine Thornton from 39 Essex Street and a panel of UK environmental lawyers, speakers include
• Professor Ludwig Krämer – Director of ClientEarth’s European Union Aarhus Centre
• Professor Tom Burke CBE – Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto, chairman of the Editorial Board at ENDS magazine and former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth
• The Rt Hon Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill C.V.O President of UKELA and a Justice of the UK Supreme Court since April 2012
• Jeffrey Gracer – Chair of the New York Bar Environmental Law Committee
• Professor Jonas Ebbesson – Chair of the Aarhus Compliance Committee
• Sibylle Grohs – DG Environment, European Commission
• Professor Colin Reid, Dundee University
• Associate Prof. Zhao Yuhong, Chinese University of Hong Kong on China’s response to the challenge of Climate Change
It should be a good one!