Press release issued: 12 June 2016
In her latest blog Dr. Margherita Pieraccini, Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School, has penned her thoughts on the prospect of Brexit in next month's referendum, and the potential consequences for nature conservation law.
Thanks to the EU's pivotal role in shaping environmental law across European states, the prospect of the UK leaving the EU after ther referendum this June produces a number of concerns regarding the state of environmental legislature.
Particularly concerning is the substantial number of European protected sites in the UK: 652 Special Areas of Conservation and sites of Community Importance.
You can read Dr. Pieraccini's discussion on the University of Bristol Law School Blog.
Margherita joined the Law School in 2011. She was formerly a lecturer at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus. She holds a joint honours degree in Anthropology and International Relations (Aberdeen, 2005), an MPhil from Cambridge in Social Anthropology (Cambridge, 2006) and a PhD in Environmental Law (Newcastle, 2010).
Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on nature conservation law, common pool resources, legal pluralism and social-ecological resilience. Her PhD was part of the AHRC-funded Contested Common Land project (2007-2010).
In 2012 she was awarded a ESRC future research leaders grant for 3 years to carry out a socio-legal study on marine protected areas in the UK. Please see the project website at: http://www.ecologiesandidentities.com/
