Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 272427

Fax

fax +44 (0)1224 27 2442

Email

a.m.slater@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen Taylor Building, Room C38

Biography

Anne-Michelle Slater is a specialist in terrestrial and marine spatial planning law.

She is a Memeber of the Centre for Energy Law.

She was part of an interdisciplinary  team,  funded by NERC, undertaking cooperative participatory evaluation of renewable technology on ecosystem services using the example of offshore wind farm developments in the Firth of Forth( 2014-15).

She is also continuing work funded, in part by The Crown Estate, on development of the role of a UK marine planning exchange into a North Sea wide project, with a focus on law, in light of the requirements of the EU Directive establishing a framework for maritime planning 2014/89/EU. http://planningexchangefoundation.org.uk/reports/MPX%20Final%20Report%20AMS2.4.12.pdf

Anne-Michelle contributed to an international workshop in Oslo in March 2015 on Aquaculture and the Law, which now form part of a collection edited by Professor Nigel Bankes to be published by Ashgate in early 2016.

She is a member of the Marine Law committee of the Law Society of Scotland and an editorial board member of Environmental Law Review, the Journal of Water Law and Scottish Planning and Environmental Law (SPEL).

In 2013, she led part of an EU funded project which researched and advised on an Irish marine planning framework (2013) .  This was used in Our Ocean Wealth Development Task Force report (2015)

Anne-Michelle Slater has also written on marine and planning matters for Scottish Planning and Environmental Law (SPEL) and the Planning Law Factbook (published by W. Green) and published on aquaculture and marine planning in Environmental Law Review, Edinburgh Law Review, Water Law and Environmental Law and Management. She authored Planning Law Essentials (DUP) in 2010.

Anne-Michelle welcomes PhD and LLM students in the areas of planning, environmental and marine spatial planning law. 

Anne-Michelle Slater also has a particular interest in Patrick Geddes, often regarded as the father of town planning and original proponent of the concept of sustainable development. In particular she researches and writes on his contribution to the development of planning, including holistic approaches and planning education.  Most recently, she has written on the links between Geddes and Lady Aberdeen in  Ireland and Scotland.

She was Head of School 2012-2017. 

PhD Supervision Interests

Ms Slater is interested in supervising research students working in the following areas: environmental law (particularly marine and coastal aspects of environmental law), marine spatial planning and law, planning law (particularly planning law reform in Scotland), and sustainable development and law.

Publications 

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