Professor Dr Juliane Kokott, LLM SJD Court of Justice of the European Union Professor Dr Juliane Kokott holds the position of Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since October 2003, she has been responsible for about 1100 cases and has delivered more than 450 opinions including about 100 on environmental law. The latter covered most areas of EU environmental law, in particular all types of environmental assessments, nature conservation, waste, environmental liability, REACH and climate change. Before joining the Court she was a professor at the universities of Augsburg, Heidelberg, Düsseldorf and St. Gallen. She has also been a visiting professor at Berkeley Law and she was Deputy Chairman of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (1996 to 2003), an independent, scientific advisory body to the German government that was established 1992 in the run-up to the Rio Earth Summit. Juliane Kokott is a graduate of the universities of Bonn, American University/Washington DC, Heidelberg and the Harvard Law School. She has authored and co-authored a broad variety of publications on European Law and public international law, including environmental law.
Rt. Hon Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill C.V.O. - President, UKELA
Lord Carnwath has been a Justice of the UK Supreme Court since April 2012. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal since September 2001, having been a Judge of the High Court, Chancery Division, from 1994. He was Chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales from February 1999 until July 2002. In July 2004 he was nominated as “Shadow” Senior President of Tribunals, to provide judicial leadership in the reform of the UK Tribunal system. In November 2007 he was appointed as the first statutory Senior President of Tribunals under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. Internationally, in 2004 he was a founding member, and first Secretary-General, of the European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE). He has been joint chairman of the judicial advisory committee for the UNEP handbook on environmental law; and a member of the UNECE taskforce on the Aarhus Convention.