New Law Appointments 2012-2013
The Sussex Law School is delighted to announce the appointment of three new Chairs and a Reader. These are excellent appointments for SLS and we look forward to working with each of them as the department continues its exciting and unprecedented rate of growth and expansion.
Reader Donald McGillivray - joined in January 2013 D. McGillivray@sussex.ac.uk
Donald has joined Sussex Law School from the University of Kent where he was Professor of Law and where he taught from 1993-1999 and 2002-2012, teaching at Birkbeck College London in between. His teaching interests have mainly been in all aspects of environmental law (mainly national, comparative and EU) but he also has teaching interests in land law especially in relation to access to land.
Donald's research interests relate primarily to the intersection of environmental and land law, most recently looking at issues of mitigation and compensation in nature conservation and environmental assessment law. He is co-author of Bell, McGillivray and Pedersen, Environmental Law (the 8th edition of which is due out in May 2013) and (with Howarth) of Water Pollution and Water Quality Law (2001). On environmental assessment he contributes to Mandelker's NEPA Law and Litigation (West) and is co-editor (with Holder) of a collection of essays on environmental assessment (Taking Stock of Environmental Impact Assessment: Law, Policy and Practice, Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).
Donald has acted in editorial capacities on the Journal of Water Law, Environmental Law Review and the Journal of Environmental Law and is now as Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. He has acted as a consultant to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and to various other UK and international bodies. He is an active member of the UK Environmental Law Association where he works in particular to promote student activities and competitions.
He won the Socio-Legal Studies Association Best Article Prize 2008 for an article written with Jane Holder on village greens, published in the International Journal of Law in Context and in 2012 was involved with the team of staff and students who won the ‘Best New Student Pro Bono Activity’ award at the LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards. His work has been cited in judgments of the High Court and Court of Appeal and, recently, in a submission in EU/Canada (seal skins) before the WTO.
New chairs:
Professor Chris Marsden - joined in April 2013 - C.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk
Professor Dr Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Internet Law at Essex University School of Law (moving to the University of Sussex in April 2013). He is author of many articles and four books on Internet law, including "Regulating Code" (2013, MIT Press with Dr Ian Brown), "Net neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution" (2010, Bloomsbury), "Internet Co-regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace" (2011, Cambridge), "Codifying Cyberspace" (Routledge/Cavendish 2007 with Dr. D. Tambini, D. Leonardi). He is also author-editor of the interdisciplinary Internet policy books "Regulating the Global Information Society" (Routledge 2000), and "Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation" (Blackstone/OUP 1999). He is a committed interdisciplinarian, having over the last 15 years published several jointly written papers, book chapters and articles with economists (Jonathan Cave and Campbell Cowie), computer scientists (Ian Brown), and social scientists (Damian Tambini, Stefan Verhulst, Colin Blackman, Christian Ahlert, Simon Forge and others). He is the author of the “Oxford Bibliography of Internet Law” (2012) and chapters on Internet law in several Handbooks.
He has been funded to carry out multi-year research projects by the Economic and Social Research Council (1998-2000), British Academy (2005-7), 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission (2011-15), European Commission DG CONNECT (2003-4 and 2007-8), and has served as Advisory Board member on several ESRC, EC, EPSRC and FP7 projects. He is Media Board Member of the Society for Computers and Law, member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Chair of the Society for Computers and Law 2012 Policy Forum. He was Programme Committee member of the Telecoms Policy Research Conference 2006-8, and is Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary communications management journal 'info' since 2007.
He has given invited keynote speeches at a large number of international conferences. He chaired the ESRC European Media Regulation Group 1998-2000. He chaired the European Presidency High-Level Conference on broadband policy in 2010, and was the only academic expert invited to address the European Parliament-Commission conference on the open Internet and net neutrality in 2010. He is a regular international speaker on Internet law and policy issues, and has been cited in The Economist, El Pais, Wall St Journal and many domestic newspapers and journals. He has 20 years’ experience in Information Society analysis, research and consulting in academic, thinktank (World Economics Forum, RAND Europe, RE: Think!), government (Independent Television Commission) and commercial (Media Week, MCI WorldCom UK, Shortmedia) organisations. He has consulted for the governments of Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Japan, the European Commission and the Council of Europe.
Professor Stuart Harrop -joined May 2013 - S.Harrop@sussex.ac.uk
Stuart Harrop is the newly appointed Professor of Environmental Law in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology. He was previously Professor of Wildlife Management Law in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent where he was also Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. Prior to commencing his academic career he held senior posts in industry, the London Stock Exchange and the RSPCA.
Professor Harrop’s research has been carried out pursuant to a number of grant-funded projects derived from UK government and European Union sources. This work has encompassed a wide range of issues concerning the regulation of the human relationship with the natural world with a primary emphasis on the international policy and regulatory matrix.
He also gives advice to governments and international agencies on environmental regulation and is a member of various technical committees within the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Recent published research has dealt with the following areas:
- The softening trajectory in the development of international biodiversity law.
- The Convention on Biological Diversity’s targets for 2020 and legal mechanisms to support them.
- The relationship between climate change and biodiversity loss and the consequential need to alter regulatory strategies in conservation and animal welfare law.
- Approaches to achieving efficient, consolidated and consistent regulation of the marine environment within the jurisdiction of the European Union.
- International legal instruments that promote traditional and religious practices that potentially contribute to conserving the natural world.
- Fundamental ethical propositions in international policy that support the development of a global framework of wild animal welfare regulation.
- The debate concerning traditional subsistence whaling within the ambit of the International Whaling Commission.
- The relationship between traditional agricultural practices and biodiversity preservation in international law.
Professor Erika Szyszczak -joining September 2013 - ems11@leicester.ac.uk
Erika Szyszczak was a Jean Monnet Professor of European Law ad personam and Professor of European Competition and Labour Law at the University of Leicester. She has previously taught at the London School of Economics, the Universities of Nottingham and Kent. Her research and teaching interests are in EU law, especially competition law, procurement and state aid. Professor Szyszczak's research interests are in the liberalisation of markets and how competition and free market rules affect the provision of commercial and welfare public services. She jointly co-ordinates a research project with colleagues in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany entitled the Transformation of the Market and the State (ToMaS) which organises international conferences and publishes a book series, Legal Issues of Services of General Interest with TMC Asser/Springer Press.