Professor of Environmental Law
Patricia Park is Professor of Environmental Law and Head of the Law Research Centre at Southampton Solent University. She has written extensively, and given conference papers, in the areas of energy and environmental law including papers for a number of House of Commons Committees. She has also carried out work for the Advisory Board on Sentencing to the Court of Appeal. Her latest book is Energy Law and the Environment (2001), Taylor and Francis, London and New York.
Professor Park was appointed as an original member of the Regional Environmental Pollution Advisory Committee to the Environment Agency in 1996. She was elected as a Member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the IUCN (the World Conservation Union) in 1995, and is a Member of the Energy and Natural Resources section of the International Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum, and has been a Justice of the Peace since 1982.
Professor Park designed and teaches the Environmental Law pathway of the Master of Laws Degree (LLM), in addition to teaching International Maritime Law on the MSc programme in the School of Maritime and Coastal Studies, and she leads the Substantive European Law Team on the LLB. She also teaches UK Energy Law on the Masters programme at the University at Leuven, Belgium, and International Environmental Law at the University at Orebro, Sweden.
She has carried out research for international oil companies in addition to joint research for the Trilateral Committee for the Waddensea. She is currently engaged in research with universities in Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, and France.
Qualifications:
LLB, MPhil, FInst Pet
Education:
LLB, MPhil - Southampton University
Subject expertise and research interests
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Energy and natural resources law, with particular interest in the use of economic incentives, such as taxes and tradable permits, for pollution control
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Offshore oil and gas installations with particular interest in residual liability after decommissioning
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Sentencing environmental crime.
Professor Park is willing to give lectures/seminars/interviews on:
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offshore installations and marine pollution
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any area of environmental law and pollution control
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sentencing law and policy.