Stuart Bell

Profile

Biography

Professor Stuart Bell
LLB (Sheffield), Barrister

I joined York Law School in 2007 as the founding Head of School.

Previously I was the Eversheds Professor of Environmental Law at Nottingham Trent University where I combined my role as a Professor with a consultancy with the Regulatory Team at Eversheds, the international law firm. I worked for a number of years in the Planning and Environmental Law Departments of two firms of Solicitors – DLA Piper International and Squire Sanders (as they have now become). Prior to that, I began my academic career at the University of East Anglia having qualified as a Barrister.

Research

Overview

• Environmental law
• The legal profession
• Legal education

Projects

• Developing a management framework for dealing with contaminated, dredged marine sediments around the UK coastline for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Publications

Selected publications

• Bell , S. & Etherington, L. “(Re)connecting the Global and Local: Europe’s Regional Seas”, Journal of Law & Society Special Edition “ Economic Globalization and Ecological Localization” [2009] J. Law & Soc. 36:1, 75-93
• Bell, S. and McGillivray, D. (2008), Environmental Law (7 th Edition, Oxford: OUP), 781pp
• Tromans S. and Turrell-Clarke R. Contaminated Land (2007) (2 nd Edition, London Sweet and Maxwell, London ) 1086pp
• Bell , S. and Etherington L. “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Study of the Transposition and Implementation of the Groundwater Directive in the UK and Gibraltar” [2007] Environmental Law Review (9), pp. 6-24
• Halsbury’s Laws of England : Vol.38 Protection of the Environment and Public Health (2006) (5th Edition, London : Lexis Nexis Butterworths) 819pp
• Bell , S. “A Slow Train Coming? Soil Protection Law and Policy in the UK” [2006] Journal of European Planning and Environmental Law, 3:3, pp. 226

External activities

Editorial duties

• Editor, Environmental Law Reports
• Consultant Editor, Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law
• Consultant Editor, Environmental Law Bulletin
• Consultant Editor, Journal of Water Law
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Planning and Environmental Law

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Environmental and planning law
• The legal profession
• Regulatory crime
• Civil and criminal litigation
• Corporate transactions

Postgraduate

• Environmental and planning law
• The legal profession
• Regulatory crime
• Civil and criminal litigation
• Corporate transactions