Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

DPD LLM programmes in Environmental legal Studies, International Trade and International Legal Studies

Qualifications

LLB (Wales) 1977, LLM (Cantab) 1978
Solicitor of the Supreme Court 1981

Previous Positions

Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of law, University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Solicitor in private practice

Memberships

Comite European de Droit Rural : Assistant delegate general , and member of board of management (Council of Europe NGO)
Union Mondiale des Agraristes Universitaires : Scientific Council (elected)
United Kingdon Environmental Law Association
Agricultural Law Association

Honours and Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Languages

English, Welsh, French

Informal Interests

nature conservation and environmental protection

Research Interests

property law (epecially landlord and tenant), agricultural law and
environmental law. Author of several standard reference works in the area of property law, including Agricultural law (2nd ed 1998,Butterworths,3rd ed pending) and Housing Law: Residential Security and Enfranchisement (Butterworths 2002)

Other Expertise

law and practice of arbitration, especially in relation to property disputes (principally agricultural property)

Current Work

Principal areas of current research are nature conservation law, property rights theory and liability issues surrounding GMO releases

Future Research

GMOs and the 2004 EU Environmental Liability Directive, common land reform and common land rights.

Research Roles

Editor in Chief of the Environmental Law Review (Vathek), General Editor of the Environment and Countryside Law Series (University of Wales Press).
Principal Investigator, "Contested Common Land; environmental governance, law and sustainable management c.1600-2006" (AHRC major grant, Landscape and Environment programme)

Postgraduate Supervision

Environmental Law
Agriculture and the Law
Property law

If you would like further information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

Esteem Indicators

Visiting Professor Drake Law School Iowa 1995 & 1997. Australian Research Council (expert assessor on international expert panel). Board of Management of European Council for Rural law (Council of Europe NGO), and Scientific Council of World Federation of University Agriculturalists.

Funding

£262000 AHRC 2007 - 2010 : "Contested Common Land; environmental governance, law and sustainable management c.1600-2006" (AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme)

Industrial Relevance

Have practised as a solicitor specialising in agricultural law work.

Keywords

Environmental law, nature and the law, biodiversity and law, property rights

Undergraduate Teaching

Succession

Postgraduate Teaching

Planning Law and EIA
European Environmental Law
Foundations of Environmental Law and POlicy

• Rodgers CP. Agricultural Law. Haywards Heath, UK: Tottel Publishing, 2008.
• Rodgers CP. Coexistence or Confrontation? DEFRA’s Proposals for GM Cropping. Environmental Law Review 2008, 10(1), 1-11.
• Rodgers CP. Reconciling Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment?: the EC Environmental Liability Directive. In: Parent G; Lavallée S; Azzaria G, ed. Production et Consommation Durables: de la gouvernance au consommateur-citoyen. Brussels: Editions Yvon Blais, 2008, pp. 419-445.
• Rodgers C. A New Deal For Commons? Common Resource Management and the Commons Act 2006. Environmental Law Review 2007, 9(1), 25-40.
• Rodgers CP. Coexistence or Conflict? A European Perspective on GMOS and the problem of liability. Bulletin of Science Technology and Society 2007, 27(3), 233- 251.
• Cardwell M, Rodgers C. Reforming the WTO legal order for agricultural trade: Issues for European rural policy in the Doha Round. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 2006, 55(4), 805-838.
• Rodgers C. Protecting sites of special scientific interest: The human rights dimension. Journal of Planning and Environment Law 2005,997-1009.
• Rodgers CP. Agenda 2000, Land Use, and the Environment: Towards a Theory of 'Environmental' Property Rights?. In: Holder, J., Harrison , C, ed. Law and Geography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.239-259.
• Rodgers CP, Cardwell M, Grosmann M. Agriculture and International Trade: Law, Policy and the WTO. Oxford, UK: Cabi Publishing, 2003.
• Rodgers CP. Liability for the release of GMOs into the environment: exploring the boundaries of nuisance. Cambridge Law Journal 2003, 62(2), 371-402.