Access to the countryside
Donna McKenzie Skene and Anne-Michelle Slater have been engaged in academic access research and in consultancy, primarily for SNH, since 1995. They have published widely in this area and directly influenced the wording of the Access Code and an SNH publication, Occupier’s Liabilities in Scotland and Public Outdoor Access (2005).
Key publications include:
Pillai, A. and Osborne, V., ‘Public access rights and the privacy and enjoyment of landowners’ Scottish Planning and Environmental Law, August 2008, 128: 89-91.
Slater, A. M and McKenzie Skene., D., ‘Liability and Access to the Countryside: the Impact of Part 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003’, Juridical Review 2004.Vol.4. pp. 353-364.
McKenzie, D., Rowan-Robinson, J., Sanders, A.M. (1997), ‘Civil Liability for Injury and Damage Arising from Access to the Scottish Countryside. Part 1’, Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 214-224.
McKenzie, D., Rowan-Robinson, J., Sanders, A.M. (1997), ‘Civil Liability for Injury and Damage Arising from Access to the Scottish Countryside. Part 2’, Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 274-286.
Agricultural Law
Agricultural Holdings legislation and crofting law are been covered in the Rural law Honours course. Agricultural law was a key component in the 2009 conference and will be dealt with in detail at the 2011 conference.
Community Land Ownership
Aylwin Pillai completed Arts and Humanities Research Council funded doctoral research into community land ownership under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 in 2005. The research addressed the role of the principle of sustainable development in the community right to buy in Part 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.
Key conference papers and publications include:
Pillai A., ‘Stakeholder participation and sustainable development in the community right to buy’ Institute for Rural Research University of Aberdeen seminar paper, 24 February 2010.
Pillai, A., ‘Sustainable rural communities? A legal perspective on the community right to buy’, Land Use Policy 27(2010) 898-905.
Pillai, A., ‘Community Land Ownership in Scotland: Progress Towards Sustainable Development’ in Thompson, Price and Galbraith (Eds) Nature and People: Conservation and Management in the Mountains of Northern Europe (Scottish Natural Heritage, 2005).
Pillai, A., ‘The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 – Rights of Acquisition of Land’ Scottish Planning and Environmental Law, June 2003, 97:66.
Land Law
Key publications include:
Pillai, A., ‘Land Law’ in Mulhern, M., (Ed) Scottish Life and Society: A compendium of Scottish Ethnography: Volume 13. Institutions of Scotland – The Law (University of Edinburgh). Commissioned. Forthcoming 2011.
National Parks
Key publications include:
Slater, A.M. as a member of Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, University of Aberdeen, with Brodies WS and Department of Law, University of Dundee, (1998) Review of powers relevant to Scottish National Parks, Scottish Natural Heritage Review No. 106 (146 pages)
Planning
Anne-Michelle Slater is a planning law specialist. She is on the editorial board of Scottish Planning and Environmental Law ( SPEL) and has recently completed a text book on the fundamental changes to planning law and policy in Scotland.
Slater, A, Planning Law Essentials (2010) Dundee University Press.
Tiesdell, S., Slater A.M. ‘Calling Time-Managing activities in space and time in the evening /nighttime economy’ (2006) Planning Theory & Practice Vol 7 No.2, 137-157
Renewable Energy
Key publications:
Pillai, A., Reid, C.T. and Black, A.R., ‘Reconciling Renewable Energy and the Local Impacts of Hydro-Electric Development’ Environmental Law Review 7, 2005, 110-123.
Pillai, A., Reid, C.T. and Black, A.R., ‘The Emergence of Environmental Concerns: Hydro-electric Schemes in Scotland’, Journal of Environmental Law 17 (2005), 361-382
Pillai, A., Reid, C.T. and Black, A.R., ‘Environmental Controls on Hydro-Electric Schemes in Scotland’, Journal of Water Law 15 (2004), 6, 238-241.
Pillai, A, Reid, C.T. and Black, A.R., ‘The Evolution of Environmental Controls on Hydro-electric Dams in Scotland’ conference paper presented at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, September 2004.
Pillai, A., ‘Proposed hydro-electric generating station at Shieldaig’, Scottish Planning and Environmental Law, June 2004, 103:54.
Slater, A.M. ‘Making the case for Marine Spatial Planning’: Editorial Board and Chair of seminar to launch RSPB and RTPI research report, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh 2004
Slater, A. M, ‘Land use’ planning for Scotland’s marine environment? Water Law, 15(2) 2004 pp. 49-54
Environmental Law and Environmental Justice
Key conference papers and publications:
Pillai, A., Slater, A.M and Pedersen, O, ‘Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: A Scottish Case Study’ in French, D. (Ed) Global Justice and Sustainable Development, Brill, Leiden. Forthcoming 2010.
Pillai, A. and Pedersen, O., ‘Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: A Scottish Case Study’ Global Justice and Sustainable Development, International Law Association / University of Sheffield Conference, presented August 2009 (with Ole W. Pedersen).
Slater, A.M., O.W. Pedersen, ‘Environmental Justice: lessons on definition and delivery from Scotland’ (2009), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Vol. 52 (6) 797-812.
Pillai, A., ‘A Precautionary Approach to Pesticides?’ Edinburgh Law Review 2009, 13, 335-339.
Pillai, A., Reid, C.T. and Black, A.R., ‘Regulating Long-Term Impacts on the Scottish Landscape: Quarries, Dams and Forestry’, Environmental Law Review 8, 2006, 33-50.
Slater A. M, ‘Marine spatial planning: implications for the marine environment through an examination of the Darwin Mounds and the James River ‘toxic’ fleet cases’, ELM 16 [2004] 6 pp. 287-295
Pillai, A. and Slater A.M., presentation “Land reform in Scotland: Is it achieving environmental justice?”
Sustainable Development
Key conference papers and publications:
Pillai, A., ‘The role of the sustainable development tests in the community right to buy’ University of Aberdeen Rural Law Conference: Land Reform in Scotland: 10 years of a Scottish Parliament, 3 September 2009.
Pillai, A., ‘Defining Sustainable Development: What can the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 contribute?’ Sustainable Development Research Centre Annual Conference, Inverness 12-13 November 2008.
Pillai, A., ‘The Practical Application of the Principle of Sustainable Development to the Community Right to Buy Land in Scotland’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, April 2004.