UNITED KINGDOM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION (UKELA) 

CONFERENCE PAPERS 2018
Held at The University of Kent, Canterbury Campus, 22–24 June 2018

Past reflections and future horizons: environmental law in a post-Brexit world

Foreword 
Past reflections and future horizons: environmental law in post-Brexit Britain
SIMON TILLING, UKELA Vice-Chair, Chair of Conference 2018, Partner, Burges Salmon LLP

WASTE
Challenges for waste regulators  
JENNY SCOTT, Senior Lawyer, Environment Agency

Planning in crisis?
RT HON NICK RAYNSFORD Chair of the TCPA’s Review of Planning

PAST REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE HORIZONS
What have we achieved in environmental law in the last thirty years,  what are the challenges still facing us, and how can environmental law solve those challenges?

Brexit and environmental law: the layers of the onion
WILLIAM HOWARTH University of Kent  

Successes of environmental law over the past 30 years,  the challenges that lie ahead, and the solutions that environmental law can provide
PETER KELLETT Director of Legal Services, Environment Agency

Past reflections and future horizons: the evolution of  public perceptions and the public’s role in environmental law over the past 30 years
EMMA LUI Policy Adviser, Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)

What have we achieved in environmental law in the last thirty years, what are the challenges still facing us, and how can environmental law solve those challenges?
SUE SLJIVIC Founding director of RSK Environment Ltd

BREXIT UPDATE
Brexit: A view from Scotland 
COLIN REID University of Dundee

THE 25 YEAR ENVIRONMENT PLAN AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

The 25-year environment plan and the natural environment 
PAUL LEINSTER Professor of Environmental Assessment, Cranfield University

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

U.S. environmental law and policy developments during the Trump Administration
JOHN E. MILNER Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC

THE RISE OF ESG ON THE CORPORATE AGEND
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG): Why ESG is the next big thing for environmental lawyers
TIM CLARE Anthesis Group

POST-BREXIT ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND GOVERNANCE
Strengthening the judicial handling of environmental law post-Brexit
RICHARD MACRORY Emeritus Professor of Environmental Law, University College London