Karen Scott
New Zealand academic
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Karen Nadine Scott is a New Zealand Law academic and a full professor at the University of Canterbury.[1] In June 2019, she was elected President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham, University of Canterbury
Karen Nadine Scott | |
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| Alma mater | University of Nottingham, University of Canterbury |
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| Fields | antarctic law, law of the sea, environmental law and international trade law |
| Institutions | University of Nottingham, University of Canterbury |
Academic career
After completing her LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Nottingham, she lectured there[3] before moving to the University of Canterbury, where she became a full professor[1] and head of school.[4] The University of Canterbury was the first law school to have a female dean (Ursula Cheer) and head of school (Scott).[5]
Scott's research interests encompass Antarctic law, the law of the sea, environmental law and international trade law.[1][6][7][8][9]
Selected works
- Rothwell, Donald, Alex G. Oude Elferink, Karen N. Scott, and Tim Stephens, eds. The Oxford handbook of the law of the sea. Oxford Handbooks in Law, 2015.
- Hemmings, Alan D., Donald R. Rothwell, and Karen N. Scott, eds. Antarctic security in the twenty-first century: legal and policy perspectives. Routledge, 2012.
- Scott, Karen N. "International law in the anthropocene: responding to the geoengineering challenge." Michigan Journal of International Law 34 (2012): 309.
- Scott, Karen N. "International regulation of undersea noise." International & Comparative Law Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2004): 287–323.
- Scott, Karen N. "Tilting at offshore windmills: regulating wind farm development within the renewable energy zone." Journal of Environmental Law 18, no. 1 (2005): 89–118.
