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Dr Thomas Muinzer (Co-director)

Dr Muinzer joined the University of Aberdeen in 2020 as Senior Lecturer in Energy Transition Law. His teaching and research tends to focus on climate and energy decarbonisation law and policy. He has subsidiary and intersecting interests in the sphere of constitutional law, human rights protections, and the safe and responsible governance of energy and the environment. He wrote the first monograph on the world’s first example of national framework climate legislation, Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008 (Palgrave: UK, 2018). He is also Contributing Editor to the first book-length study of Climate Change Acts around the world: National Climate Change Acts: The Emergence, Form and Nature of National Framework Climate Legislation (Hart, forthcoming).

Dr Titilayo Adebola

Dr Adebola is an interdisciplinary scholar in international intellectual property law and international economic law with specialist interests in food, agriculture, environment, technology and health. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and an Observer in the Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. She is working on a monograph entitled Plant Variety Protection: Global Regimes, Domestic Realities (Oxford University Press 2022).

Dr Elizabeth Brandon

Dr Brandon joined the University of Aberdeen in 2019, and has taught aspects of energy law in the context of both environmental and natural resources law in Australia, Hong Kong and Scotland. Her research has examined the different regulatory approaches to contaminated sites around the world, including those affected by industrial processes, mining and other resource-intensive activities. She is particularly interested in the legal framework for the clean-up of decommissioned energy facilities, both onshore and offshore.

Dr Millicent Ele

Dr Ele’s research interests include environmental law particularly corporate environmental liability and pollution control. She is interested in exploring the synergy between criminal law and environmental protection, and in the international regulation of the environment and natural resources. She is also interested in public health law/global health, and climate justice. She holds an LL.B. from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, and a Ph.D. in Environmental law/Energy from University of Aberdeen. She is admitted to practice law in Nigeria and the State of New York, USA.

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Dr Tomilola Akanle Eni-ibukun (Grants Officer)

Dr Eni-ibukun’s primary research interests are climate change, low-carbon development and sustainable energy, focusing on the policies, laws and mechanisms being used globally to address these issues. Her current research is on the implementation of the Paris Agreement, including the new Article 6 market mechanism. However, she engages with a wide range of environmental law issues, including sustainable chemicals management, environmental justice, and environmental implementation and enforcement. For the last 15 years, she has been reporting from and analysing UN negotiations on sustainable development and climate change, as a Team Leader with the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). She has attended 40+ UN conferences and co-authored more than 130 reports on energy, climate change, chemicals management and other environmental issues.

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Prof Greg Gordon

Prof Gordon is the Head of School. He previously served as Deputy Head of School and as the Co-Director for Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Prof Gordon’s principal teaching and research interests are in energy law (particularly upstream oil and gas law), delict/tort and commercial contracting. Greg Gordon joined the School of Law as a lecturer in 2004 after a period working in Aberdeen and London as a solicitor specialising in litigation, primarily in the oil and gas sector. He became a senior lecturer in 2011 and Professor Law in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Prof Tina Soliman Hunter

Professor Soliman Hunter is a Professor in Petroleum Law teaching and researching in the area of petroleum law (offshore), Arctic resources law and shale gas law. She has received academic qualifications in marine sediments and geology, political science, applied science, and law, completing her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has undertaken teaching and research in numerous countries including the UK, Australia, Norway, Canada, Iceland, Greece, Finland, Russia, the USA and the Philippines. Her expertise in regulating petroleum activities has been sought worldwide. Professor Soliman Hunter is currently the Leader of the multidisciplinary Consortium of Researchers and Experts in North and Arctic Marine Ecosystems Oil Contamination (CRENAME), and a visiting Professor at Tomsk State University in the Russian Federation She has published five books and over one hundred articles, book chapters and conference papers. She is currently completing a book on Russian Petroleum Law, the first of its kind in English.

Dr Mark Osa Igiehon

Dr Igiehon’s areas of research, teaching, training and consultancy are: energy and natural resources law and governance; law, development and good use of mineral resources; acquisitions and divestments; international investments protection and arbitration; capital projects contracting procurement and construction; decommissioning; upstream contracts; compliance and assurance. He supervises PhDs. He has over 20 years international and multi-jurisdictional experience with international oil companies and governments.

Nevena Jevremovic

Dr Nevena Jevremovic's research and teaching focus on the interplay between sustainable development in global value chains, commercial relationships, investment, and dispute resolution. Her ongoing projects include sustainable consumption and production in global value chains, sustainable development goals in investment disputes, and proactive judicial policy in climate litigation against corporations.

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Dr Mitchell Lennan (AUCEL Secretary)

Dr Lennan is the AUCEL Secretary. He joined AUCEL in December 2022 and is a Lecturer in Environmental Law at Aberdeen Law School. Mitchell's research interests lie at the intersection of International Law of the Sea, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Rights Law. He is particularly interested in the international regulation of fisheries and other marine resources (living and non-living) in the face of climate change. His recently completed PhD focused on the global legal issues of fish stocks shifting location due to climate change. He works closely with AUCEL members and UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub researchers on these and other issues.

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Dr Alisdair MacPherson

Dr MacPherson's research interests include: rights in security, insolvency law, property law, company law, corporate finance and modern legal history. He is the author of The Floating Charge (2020), co-editor of Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues (2022) and a co-author of Commercial Law in Scotland, 6th edn (2018). He has also published articles on aspects of secured transactions, debt enforcement, insolvency law and corporate crime. Alisdair is currently undertaking further doctrinal, comparative and empirical work in his areas of research.

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Prof Roy Partain

Prof Partain's research explores the nexus between commercial law and sustainable development, including the liability issues arising from emergent and innovative technologies. His research focuses on sustainable corporate governance; the potential to regulate and incentivize sustainable behaviours from corporate and private actors. His research methodology draws on tools from microeconomics, law and economics, game theory, algorithmic social choice theory, and comparative law. He has advised and worked on energy and environmental research projects underwritten by ministries and research institutions in East Asia.

Prof Anne-Michelle Slater

Anne-Michelle Slater is a specialist in spatial planning law: marine and terrestrial. Originally from practice, she teaches and publishes on all aspects of regulation and implementation, but with a recent focus on offshore renewable energy systems. She has advised Scottish Government and the Irish Marine Institute on marine spatial planning and was a member of the Royal Town PIanning Institute's Marine Spatial Planning Task Group and on Scottish Government's Sustainable Seas Task Force. Interdisciplinary projects include developing a process to implement marine renewable energy funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and comparing land and sea planning policies in Norway and Scotland funded by the Norwegian research council.

Dr Robert Taylor

Dr Taylor is a leading researcher and Senior Lecturer in Public Law. His main research interests lie in constitutional, administrative, and human rights law, particularly devolution, judicial review, delegated legislation, the competing theories of UK constitutionalism, and constitutional conventions. He has published in the pre-eminent academic journals in his field, including Public Law, the Modern Law Review, and the Edinburgh Law Review. In 2020-21, Robert completed a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship on Brexit Statutory Instruments.