Dr Ricardo Pereira

Reader in Law

: pereirar1@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2087 4644
: 0.08, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

: Available for postgraduate supervision

Dr. Ricardo Pereira joined the Cardiff Law & Politics School in October 2015 as Senior Lecturer in Law and was promoted to Reader in Law in August 2020. At Cardiff he is the Chair of the LL.M .Exam Board, Route Convenor of the LL.M. in International Commercial Law, leader of the International Energy Law LL.M module, and also teaches in the LL.B. programme in Company Law and European Union Law.

Prior to joining Cardiff he held the positions of Senior Lecturer in Law and Sustainability at the University of Westminster, Business School (2013-2015); and Lecturer in Environmental and Energy Law at Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy (2009-2012). In addition, he convened the LL.M. modules on International Natural Resources Law and International Law of the Sea at Queen Mary, University of London (2010-2014); and was Visiting Lecturer in International Environmental Law at University College London in 2012.

He holds a Ph.D. in Law obtained from the University of Essex in 2009; an LL.M. in Public International Law from City University, London; and an LL.M. in International Business Law from Queen Mary, University of London.

His research interests lie primarily in international and European environmental law, energy and natural resouces law, European criminal law, international economic law, the law of the sea and human rights law. His latest book is 'Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law', published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill in September 2015. The book assesses legal, theoretical and practical questions relating to the harmonisation of environmental criminal law in Europe and internationally as well as the constitutional dimensions and effectiveness of transnational legal mechanisms aimed at combatting environmental crime. The book is widely cited in the 2018 United Nations Environment Programme's comprehensive study on environmental crime globally. More recently he co-edited 'The Governance of Criminal Justice in the European Union: Transnationalism, Localism and Public Participation in an Evolving Constitutional Order' (Edward Elgar, in press, December 2020) and is finalising a book on international natural resources law (in contract with Routledge) due to be published in late 2020.

He jointly obtained a £12,000 grant from the Centre for Law and Society for a series of workshops on transnational criminal justice in 2017-2018 co-organised with the Centre of Crime, Law and Justice and led a one-day workshop on EU criminal justice in June 2017. He is currently organising a Centre for Law and Society two-day workshop on 'Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses and Natural Resources Governance: A Study in Global Law, Development and Justice' due to take place at Cardiff in May 2020.

He regularly gives advice to the National Assembly for Wales on matters relating to international trade and Brexit and is a member of the International Trade Agreements Advisory group to the Welsh Assembly, most recently writing a report on the UK-South Korea 'Continuity' Free Trade Agreement. In September 2016 he gave evidence before the National Assembly for Wales, External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee, on 'Brexit and WTO law', as part of the Committee's broader consultation on 'Leaving the European Union: Implications for Wales (International Law and Trade)'.

He acted as a consultant in a number of internationally-funded research projects, including for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in a global study on Integrated Spatial Planning, Biodiversity and Climate Change (2014-2015) and in 2019-2020 in a study funded by the European Commision (DG JUST) on the implementation of the EU Environmental Crime Directive in the Member States conducted by the consultancy Milieu.

Professional memberships

IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (Member) (from 2016 - )
Socio-Legal Studies Association (Member) (from 2016 - )
European Criminal Law Academic Network (Member) (from 2016 - )
UACES (Member) (2016- )
Spanish Association of International Law & International Relations (AEPDIRI) (Member of scientific committe) (2015)
The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) (from 2014 - )
Society of Legal Scholars (Member) (from 2012 - )
Brazilian Bar Associaton (Member) (from 2002 - )
UK Environmental Law Association (2006-2009)
International Law Association (British Branch) (2004-2006)

Speaking engagements

Conferences & workshops

2020

Amnesty International, Corporate Crimes (with a focus on the Middle East), Annual Retreat, October
Common Good Foundation, Environmental Crime Conference, October, Jersey, United Kingdom
Workshop organisation: Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses and Natural Resources Governance: A Study in Global Law, Development and Justice, May, Cardiff University (postponed)

2019

Offshore Energy Projects and Brexit, Sept - Marine Evidence conference, Swansea University
Environmental Security in the High Seas: The Quest for Criminalisation, Cooperation and Effective Enforcement,' May, British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), London, Theory and International Law annual workshop
'Transnational Legal Responses to Global Environmental Crime' - Feb, ELSA Thessaloniki International Environmental Law conference, Thessaloniki, Greece

2018

'The quest for effective enforcement of environmental law in the European Union,' September, UCAES annual conference, University of Bath
'The quest for effective enforcement of environmental law in the European Union' August, European Environmental Law forum annual conference, Como, Italy.
'Community engagement in environmental criminal law enforcement' Society of Legal Scholars annual conference.
'The Nexus between Energy Security and Climate Security' - July, IUCN AEL annual conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (with Quintavalla)
'The Nexus between Energy Security and Climate Security' - June, ICON-S annual conference, University of Hong Kong (with Quintavalla)
'Brexit and the Future of EU-UK energy and climate change cooperation' - May, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG)

2017

'Towards an international crime of ecocide?' - November, Staff-PGR Student Seminar series (joinly organised with the CCLJ), Cardiff University, Law & Politics School
'Public Participartion and the Environmental Rule of Law in Brazil' - September, OAS/UNEP 2nd conference on the environmental rule of law in the Americas, Santiago, Chile
'An International Crime of Ecocide?' - May-June, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Reseach Workshop & 15th Annual Colloquium, Cebu, The Phillipines

2016

'Tax Avoidance by Multinational Corporations and Natural Resources Sovereignty' - September, 17th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
'Maritime Boundary Disputes in the East China Sea and Arctic' - June, ICON-S annual conference on 'Borders, Otherness, and Public Law', Humboldt University, Berlin

2015

Comments on draft EU level policy recommendations - October
EFFACE workshop: Enhancing the EU's effort to combat environmental crime - the path ahead, Queen Mary, University of London
On the Implementation of the EU Environmental Crime Directive - The Example of Illegal Waste Disposal and Shipment Offences - September
Effectiveness of Environmental Law, Aux Marseille Universite
Developing the Principles of International Law for Interstate Cooperation and Settlement of Disputes over Shared Natural Resources - July
Public Law in an Uncertain World, New York University (NYU)
The EU Implementation of International Environmental Agreements - June
The External Application of EU Law, AEPDIRI, Vigo, Spain
Chair and moderator of the ‘UK, Europe and the Challenges of Global Trade’ panel session - April
‘The United Kingdom and The European Union: Challenges And Prospects for a Lasting Union’, Conference organized by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and Konrad Adenaer Stifung
The Governance of Shared Natural Resources under International Law - February
Rule of Law, Governance and Natural Resources,, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (workshop jointly organised with the University of Warwick).

2014

Access to Justice before International and Regional Courts by Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Extractive Industry Projects - September
Environmental and Planning Law Aspects of Large Scale Projects, European Environmental Law Forum conference
Towards a Right to Clean Energy under International Law? - June
Energy for a Fair Society in a Safe Planet, IUCN Annual Environmental Law Colloquium, Tarragona, Spain
'Environmental Crime in the High Seas' - June
Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
The Future of the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources - June
Theory and International Law, British Institute for International and Comparative Law
Contested Spaces between States: international law and shared natural resources - June
Borders in the 21st Century, University of Lancaster, Law School, UK

Committees and reviewing

Member of Advisory Board, International Community Law Review (2013 - to present)

Guest Editor: Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (Special Issue, April 2021, forthcoming)

Book Reviews Editor, European Energy and Environmental Law Review (2009-2012)

2020

Pereira, R. 2020. The development of environmental criminal law enforcement in the European Union: from institutional fragmentation to European environmental criminal justice governance?. In: Pereira, R., Engel, A. and Miettinen, S. eds. The Governance of Criminal Justice in the European Union: Transnationalism, Localism and Public Participation in an Evolving Constitutional Order. Edward Elgar, pp. 181.
Pereira, R., Engel, A. and Miettinen, S. eds. 2020. The governance of criminal justice in the European Union: Transnationalism, localism and public participation in an evolving constitutional order. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Pereira, R., Engel, A. and Miettinen, S. 2020. Introduction. In: Pereira, R., Engel, A. and Miettinen, S. eds. The Governance of Criminal Justice in the European Union: Transnationalism, Localism and Public Participation in an Evolving Constitutional Order. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-14.
Pereira, R. 2020. After the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s 2016 policy paper on case selection and prioritisation - towards an international crime of ‘ecocide’?. Criminal Law Forum 31, pp. 179-224. (10.1007/s10609-020-09393-y)

2019

Pereira, R. 2019. The UK-South Korea free trade agreement. Project Report. [Online]. National Assembly for Wales, Research Service. Available at: http://www.senedd.assembly.wales/documents/s96352/UK-South Korea free trade agreement - Dr Ricardo Pereira.pdf

2017

Pereira, R. 2017. Towards effective implementation of the EU environmental crime directive? The case of illegal waste management and trafficking offences. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 26(2), pp. 147 -162. (10.1111/reel.12207)

2016

Nield, K. and Pereira, R. 2016. Financial crimes in the European carbon markets. In: Weishaar, S. E. ed. Research Handbook on Emissions Trading. Research Handbooks in Climate Law London: Edward Elgar
Pereira, R. 2016. Pollution from seabed activities. In: Attard, D. ed. IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law: Volume III. Oxford University Press

2015

Pereira, R. 2015. Government-sponsored population policies and indigenous peoples: Challenges for international human rights law. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 33(4), pp. 437-482. (10.1177/016934411503300405)
Pereira, R. 2015. Environmental criminal liability and enforcement in European and international law. Queen Mary Studies in International Law. Leiden: Brill.
Pereira, R. 2015. The external dimensions of the EU legislative initiatives to combat environmental crime. Spanish Yearbook of International Law 19(1), pp. 251-268. (10.17103/sybil.19.17)

2014

Pereira, R. 2014. The Cartagena Protocol on the transboundary movement of living modified organisms: the regulation of trade in transgenic organisms under international and European environmental law. In: Benedict, M. ed. Transgenic insects: techniques and applications. CABI Biotechnology Series CABI
Pereira, R. and Gough, O. 2014. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the 21st century: natural resource governance and the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples under international law. Melbourne Journal of International Law 14(2), pp. 451-495.

2013

Ngaraze, S., Makuch, K. E. and Pereira, R. 2013. The case for regulating nanotechnologies: international, European and national perspectives. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 22(2), pp. 131-145. (10.1111/reel.12029)

2012

Pereira, R. 2012. The regionalization of criminal law: the example of European criminal law. In: Van den Herik, L. and Stahn, C. eds. The diversification and fragmentation of international criminal law., Vol. 1. Leiden Studies on the Frontiers of International Law Brill
Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. 2012. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell.
Pereira, R. 2012. The exploration and exploitation of energy resources in international law. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell
Pereira, R. 2012. Compliance and enforcement in international, European and national environmental law. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell
Pereira, R. 2012. Environmental regulation, business competitiveness and corporate responsibility. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell
Pereira, R. and Jourdain, C. 2012. International and EU climate change law. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell
Wright, H. and Pereira, R. 2012. A legal framework for clean technology transfer and finance. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and energy law. Wiley-Blackwell
Makuch, K.et al. 2012. UK climate change law and policy. In: Makuch, K. and Pereira, R. eds. Environmental and Energy Law. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 172-192.
Pereira, R. 2012. The legal basis for harmonisation of environmental criminal law in the EU: past and future challenges. In: Andenas, M. and Andersen, C. B. eds. Theory and practice of harmonisation. Elgar

2011

Nield, K. and Pereira, R. 2011. Fraud on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: effects, vulnerabilities and regulatory reform. European Energy & Environmental Law Review 20(6), pp. 255-289.

2009

Pereira, R. 2009. The right to reproductive self-determination of indigenous peoples under human rights law. In: Berking, S. and Zolkos, M. eds. Between life and death: governing populations in an era of Human Rights. Peter Lang

2008

Pereira, R. 2008. On the legality of the Ship-Source Pollution 2005/35/EC directive: the Intertanko case and selected others. European Energy & Environmental Law Review 17(6), pp. 372-383.

2007

Pereira, R. 2007. Environmental criminal law in the first pillar: A positive development for environmental protection in the European Union?. European Energy & Environmental Law Review 16(10), pp. 254-268.

LL.M. - International Energy Law (Module Leader)
LL.B. - Company Law (Lecturer and tutor)
LL.B. - European Union Law (Lecturer and tutor)
LL.B. - Commercial Law (2015-2017) (Module Leader, lecturer and tutor)
LL.M. - EU Internal Market Law (from 2015 - ) (Guest lecturer: the External Dimensions of the EU Internal Market)
MSc - Multilateralism and International Law (from 2019 - ) (Guest lecturer: Multilateralism and International Environmental Law)

My research interests lie primarily in international and European environmental law, energy and natural resouces law, European criminal law, international economic law, the law of the sea and human rights law.

I welcome Ph.D. proposals in the fields of international and EU environmental law, natural resources law and governance, the law of the sea, international economic law, comparative and European criminal law; and human rights law (particularly indigenous peoples' rights).

My current Ph.D. supervisees include:

- Dana Alduaij ‘Shareholders Rights and Shariah Corporate Governance in Islamic Financial Institutions’ (second supervisor)

- Jinnapat Pengnorapat: ‘Delisting of Species in Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Wildlife Conservation Laws’ (second supervisor)