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 a member of the Environmental Justice Research Unit, the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, the Centre for Human Rights and Public Law and the International Studies Research Unit, and his administrative and teaching roles have included Route Convenor of the LL.M. in International Commercial Law programme, Chair of the LL.M Exam Board, leader of the International Energy Law LL.M module and contributing to the teaching in the LL.B programme in EU Law and Company Law.

Prior to joining Cardiff he held positions in a number of other UK academic institutions, including Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster, Business School (2013-2015), Lecturer in Environmental Law at Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy (2009-2012) and also taught in international environmental and natural resources law at Queen Mary, University of London and University College London (UCL). He holds a Ph.D. in Law (University of Essex), an LL.M. in Public International Law (City, University of London) an LL.M. in International Business Law (Queen Mary, University of London) and an LL.B. in Law (Federal University, Ufba).

His research interests lie primarily in international and European environmental law, energy and natural resouces law, European and transnational criminal law, environmental crime and law enforcement, as well as other sub-fields of public international law including international economic law, the law of the sea and human rights law. His monograph 'Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law', (Brill, 2015) 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, 2020) and is finalising a book on international natural resources law (in contract with Routledge) due to be published in 2021.

He has undertaken research and regularly gives advice to international and national organisations and NGOs, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the European Commission, the National Assembly for Wales and the Instituto Colombo-Aleman para la Paz (CAPAZ). He is currently a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, on the advisory board of the International Community Law Review, on the guest editorial board of the Review of European, International and Comparative Environmental Law (2019-2021) and has previously acted as the book reviews editor for the European Energy and Environmental Law Review (2009-2012).

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 - )

Speaking engagements

Conferences & workshops

2021

'Community engagement in environmental criminal law enforcement', February, 7th Frontiers in Environmental Law annual colloquium, University of South Australia

2020

Amnesty International, International Criminal Law and the Environment, October, Corporate Crimes (with a focus on the Middle East), Annual Retreat, (p/ invitation)
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 (p/ invitation)

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, Queen Mary, University of London.
'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) (p/ invitation)

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
Workshop organisation: Transnational Criminal Justice and International Institutions - June, Cardiff University (funded by the Centre for Law and Society)

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 (p/ invitation)
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 (p/ invitation)
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 (p/ invitation)
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) (p/ invitation).

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 (p/ invitation)
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, July 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)

Some of his recent research achievements and external engagement activities included:

- In 2020-2021 he co-wrote (with Britta Sjöstedt and Torsten Krause, Lund University) a policy brief for the Instituto Colombo-Aleman para la Paz (CAPAZ) on 'The Environment and Indigenous People in the Context of the Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding Process in Colombia: Implications for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and International Criminal Justice.' This policy brief includes recommendations aimed at advancing peacebuilding, transitional criminal justice and reparations for environmental damage linked to the armed conflict in Colombia.

- In 2019-2020 he wrote a report on 'evaluation of the implementation of the Environmental Crime Directive in the UK' in a project funded by the European Commission (DG JUST) on the implementation of Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law ('Environmental Crime Directive') in the EU Member States, conducted by the consultancy Milieu, Belgium.

- In 2016 he jointly obtained a £12,000 grant from the Centre for Law and Society for organising a series of workshops on transnational criminal justice in collaboration with the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, and was the lead organiser of a one-day workshop on European criminal justice and international institutions that took place at Cardiff University in June 2017.

- In 2019 he obtained another grant from the Centre for Law and Society for organising a 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 in 2020/2021.

- In 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 consulation on Leaving the European Union - International Law and Trade and Implications for Wales.

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:

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

- Dana Alduaij ‘Shareholders Rights and Shariah Corporate Governance in Islamic Financial Institutions’ (second supervisor: completed in February 2021)