Directory of Scholars

COLIN T. REID

MA, LLB
PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE

email c.t.reid@dundee.ac.uk

Primary Research Interests

  • Biodiversity law
  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Enforcement & compliance issues

Secondary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Climate change law
  • Criminal law & the environment
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Human rights & the environment
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
  • Water law

Selected Publications

  • Nature Conservation Law, 3rd edition, W. Green (Thomson Reuters), 2009, ISBN 978 0 414 01695 8
  • Between Priceless and Worthless: Challenges in Using Market Mechanisms for Conserving Biodiversity, (2013) 2 Transnational Environmental Law (in press - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2047102512000210)
  • The Privatisation of Biodiversity? Possible New Approaches to Nature Conservation Law In The United Kingdom, (2011) 23 Journal of Environmental Law 203-232
  • Towards a Biodiversity Law: The Changing Nature of Wildlife Law in Scotland, (2012) 15 Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 202-227
  • Scotland: constraints and opportunities in a devolved system, chap.7 (pp.137-155) in M. Peeters, M. Stallworthy & J. de Cendra de Larragán (eds), Climate Law in EU Member States: Towards National Legislation for Climate Protection 2012, Edward Elgar ISBN 978 1 78100 277 3
  • Regulation in a Changing World: Review and Revision of Environmental Permits, (2008) 67 Cambridge Law Journal 126-144
  • Multi-Level Governance - a study of the implementation of environmental law in post-devolution Scotland (with A. Ross and H. Nash), (2007) 19 Environmental Law and Management 159-169