Centre for Energy Law
Launching soon, the Centre for Energy Law will build on the University of Aberdeen School of Law’s successful LLM Oil and Gas Law programme and publications in this field to provide a research focus for the expertise possessed across a wide range of dimensions of law that touch the question of energy.
Centre for Planning and Environmental Management
CPEM is an international centre for interdisciplinary research and teaching on the fostering and management of quality places that are economically , culturally and environmentally sustainable. Comprising staff with a wide range of spatial planning, geographical and surveying expertise. Click here to view CPEM pages.
Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability
ACES brings together natural and social scientists to carry out inter-disciplinary research on environmental sustainability. ACES currently supports a core staff of academics and research students, and provides a platform for scientists, stakeholders and policy makers to develop inter-disciplinary science for environmental sustainability. Click here to view ACES pages
Centre for Sustainable International Development
The Centre for Sustainable International Development (CSID) at the University of Aberdeen has been created to facilitate and generate work on sustainable international development across the University.
It espouses an inter-disciplinary, multi-sectoral approach and recognizes that future long-term research must be coordinated across all areas of sustainable development to maximise impact in least developed countries. Click here to view CSID pages.
Centre for Property Law
The Aberdeen University School of Law in 2001 established a Centre for Property Law to focus and coordinate the activities of a number of specialists working in different areas of the wide field of property. Combined, the activities concerned represent a noteworthy concentration of expertise – significant in terms of both volume and range of research and publications.
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Dr Lee-Ann Sutherland
Lee-Ann Sutherland (nee Small) has been a social scientist at the Macaulay Institute since 2005. Her research focuses on farmer decision-making and social norms, particularly in relation to the agri-environment and climate change. She is particularly interested in the development of ‘lifestyle’ or ‘non-commercial’ farming in the UK, co-supervising a PhD student on this topic with Anne-Michelle Slater. Prior to joining the Macaulay, Lee-Ann’s research addressed post-Soviet agrarian change in Eastern Europe. To view Lee-Ann’s publications please click here.
Marianne Reusch
Research Fellow, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo. Her research interests include; Norwegian Land Law and Scandinavian & European access legislation. To view Marianne’s publicaitions please click here.
She is a member of the research group in Natural Resources Law, University of Oslo.
Dr Ole Pedersen
Dr Ole W Pedersen is a lecturer at Newcastle Law School where he teaches environmental law. Prior to that, Ole gained his PhD from Aberdeen Law School examining the concept of environmental justice. His main research interests are environmental law, questions of rights and justice in relation to environmental issues and climate change. To view Ole’s publications please click here.
Anita Ronne
Anita Ronne is Associate Professor in Energy Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen where she teaches courses in International Energy Law and Sustainability and the Law on Climate Change. She is an author and co-editor of Energy Law in Europe, Energy Security and Regulating Energy and Natural Resources (Oxford University Press). She holds the chairmanship of the Danish Society for Energy Law and is an appointed member of the stakeholder forum of the state-owned Energinet.dk and the Danish Safety Technology Authority. She is a member and former chairman of the Academic Advisory Group, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law, International Bar Association and member of the Editorial Committee of Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. She has administrative experience from the Danish Ministry of Energy and as consultant to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Poland under EU Commission and World Bank secondment.
Professor John A. Lovett
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Professor Lovett received his J.D. in 1995 from Tulane Law School where he served as an articles editor on the Tulane Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Professor Lovett served as law clerk to the Honorable F.A. Little, Jr., United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana, and the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He practiced law for five years in the commercial litigation section of Liskow & Lewis in New Orleans. He joined the Loyola faculty in 2002. Professor Lovett has served as chair of the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools, a contributing editor to the ABA journal, Probate and Property, and is currently Treasurer of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists. In the fall of 2009, Professor Lovett was a McCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, School of Law, where he conducted comparative research on Scottish property law and gave presentations at several Scottish law faculties. His research is focused on property law in common, civil and mixed jurisdictions and often explores the evolution of property law in comparative settings. Professor Lovett’s book chapters and law review articles have been published in the United States, Scotland and South Africa. To view John’s publications, please click here.
SAC Rural Policy Centre
The Scottish Agricultural College Rural Policy Centre was established in November 2007 to examine the impact of current and future policies on rural business and communities. The Centre operates as a focus for research in rural policy, informing and contributing to policy debates through conducting research projects, issuing regular briefings and organising high profile events.
The Rural Policy Centre operates across SAC and is looking to develop stronger relationships with external partners and stakeholders in the future. The Centre is currently developing a number of areas of work, including CAP Reform, the productivity of Scottish agriculture and animal welfare.
More information about the SAC Rural Policy Centre can be found here.