Robert Lee

Professor Robert Lee is a former Head of Cardiff Law School and an environmental lawyer who has worked with UNEP, UNDP and the European Commission and Parliament. Prior to joining Cardiff University, Robert worked in the legal practices of Denton Wilde Sapte and Hammonds. He currently works as a Professional Development Consultant with the Environment, Planning and Regulation Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer across Europe and is a consultant to the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland. He produces Environmental Law Monthly, is Environmental Editor of Journal of Business Law and co-editor of the Analysis Section of Journal of Environmental Law.

Research Areas of Interest

Environmental Regulation; Regulation of Biotechnology and Biomedicine; Risk, Precaution and Law; Environmental Economics and Sustainability

Research Projects

Robert is currently working on a range of BRASS supported projects, including Waste Regulation, the Regulation of Food Safety and the Regulation of the Legal Profession.

BRASS Working Papers

Reports

Recent Publications

  • 'Self interest, Self restraint and Corporate Responsibility for Nano-technologies: Emerging Dilemmas for Modern Managers' (with PD Jose) (2008) 20(1) Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 113 - 125
  • 'Surveying Waste Arisings and Developing Waste Policy: Problems and Pitfalls' 35 Journal of Law and Society (Special Research Issue) (2008) 52 – 66 (with Lori Frater)
  • 'Rehabilitating the Definition of Waste: Is It Fully Recovered?' (With Elen Stokes) (2008) 8 The Year Book of European Environmental Law 162-181
  • 'Marketing Products under the Latest Extended Producer Responsibility Framework: A Battery of Issues' (2008) 17(3) Review of European Community & International Environmental Law 300-307
  • 'The (Not So) Great Escape: Legal and Moral Responsibility for the Foot and Mouth Outbreak 2007' (2009) IV Ethics, Law & Society 377 - 388
  • 'The Globalization and Relocalization of Material Flows: Four Phases of Food Regulation' (with Terry Marsden) (2009) 36(1) Journal of Law and Society 129-144
  • 'Commercial Property and Carbon Reduction: Issues for Due Diligence' (with Angela Langley) (2009) 21(2) Environmental Law and Management 68 – 75
  • 'Twenty First Century Novel: Regulating Nanotechnologies' (with Elen Stokes) (2009) 21(3) Journal of Environmental Law 469-482
  • 'Sub-Seabed Carbon Sequestration: Building the Legal Platform' (2009) 30(2) Liverpool Law Review 131-146
  • 'Old Iron: Birth Defects Litigation and the Corby Steelworks’ Reclamation' (2009) 25(4) Journal of Professional Negligence 174- 186
  • 'Setting Environmental Standards within a Socioeconomic Context' (with Andrew Farmer et al.) in Crane M, et al. Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil (Taylor and Francis, 2010) 5 - 29
  • 'Consumer Sovereignty and the Regulatory History of the European Market for GM Foods' (with Lisa Carson) (2005) Environmental Law Review pp.173 - 189.
  • 'Resources, Rights, and Environmental Regulation.' 32 Journal of Law and Society, (2005) pp. 111-130.
  • Between Realism and Functionalism: The Brussels Law Office Recht der Werkelijkheid (Special Issue, 2004 - In Lawyers' Circles Jettinghoff A and Schepel H (eds) at pp. 65 - 85.
  • Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights with Peter Wallington (Eds) (15th edition) OUP/Blackstone (2005).
  • Compendium of Summaries of Judicial Decisions in Environment Related Cases (Editor) UNEP, Nairobi (2004).
  • 'Carnage by Computer: The Blackboard Economics of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Outbreak' (with I D Campbell) (2003) 12 Social and Legal Studies 425-460.
  • 'Permitting Uncertainty: Owners, Occupiers and Responsibility for Remediation' (with Daniel Lawrence), 66 Modern Law Review (2003) pp 261-276.

Other Key Publications

  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Regulating the Reproductive Revolution (with Derek Morgan) Blackstone Press (2001).
  • Economics, Ethics and the Environment (with Julian Boswall, Eds) Cavendish (2002).
  • 'E.U. Proposals on Environmental Liability: From a Private to a Public Law Framework' Journal of Business Law March (2003) 180-191.
  • 'Liability and Environment: Public and Private Aspects of Civil Liability for Environmental Harm in an International Context' (review essay of book by Lucas Bergkamp with this title) (2003) 15 Journal of Environmental Law 427-431.
  • 'Power to Panic: The Animal Health Act 2002' (2003) Public Law 382-396.
  • Environmental Law (Volume 14 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents) LexisNexis April 2008.
  • Economic Globalization and Ecological Localization: Socio-Legal Perspectives (with Elen Stokes, Eds) Wiley Blackwell, 2009
  • The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis? (with T. Marsden, A. Flynn and S. Thankappan) Routledge, 2009
  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Regulating the Reproductive Revolution (with Derek Morgan) Blackstone Press, 2001.

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