Karen Morrow

Prof Karen Morrow LLB, LLM. (b. 1969).  Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP) School of Law, Swansea University.

Professor Morrow holds a Master’s degree (LLM.) from King’s College in London in 1992 and obtained her LLB degree at the Law Faculty of the Queen’s University of Belfast in 1991. Currently, she is Professor of Environmental Law and co-director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP) in the School of Law of Swansea University in Wales. She has held posts in law at the University of Buckingham, Queen’s University of Belfast, the University of Durham, and Leeds University, and has been a Chair at Swansea University since January 2007.

Professor Morrow teaches and researches in UK, EU and International environmental and energy law, and in the Law of Torts. She has been a visiting member of Faculty on the Masters in International and European Environmental Law at the KU Leuven since its inception and has active international research links through the IUCN Environmental Law Academy and the Working Group on Property, Community and Social Entreprenuerism (PCSE). She is co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. Her expertise lies in decision-making and public participation, rights and gender in environmental on which she regularly publishes and speaks. Her current research interests include participation in environmental decision-making processes, collective interests and the environment, and gender and environmental law.