In Residence
Dr Ricardo Pereira joined the NUS Law School in January 2021 as Adjunct Research Associate Professor in the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). His first research project at APCEL, under the direction of Associate Professor Dr Jolene Lin and Dr Linda Sulistiawati, aims to update the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) comprehensive study on environmental courts and tribunals worldwide. As part of this study his research has focused on the evolution of environmental courts and tribunals in regional contexts, in particular in South America and North America.
His research interests lie primarily in environmental law, energy and natural resources law, environmental crime and law enforcement, and specific areas of public international law including human rights law, transnational criminal law, international economic law and the law of the sea. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Criminal Law Forum, the Melbourne Journal of International Law and the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. His monograph Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law (Brill, 2015) assesses legal, theoretical and practical questions concerning the harmonisation of environmental criminal law in Europe and internationally, and the constitutional dimensions and effectiveness of transnational legal mechanisms aimed at combatting environmental crime. 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 and has previously acted as the book reviews editor for the European Energy and Environmental Law Review. 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 European Commission, the National Assembly for Wales and the Instituto Colombo-Aleman para la Paz (CAPAZ).
He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Law at Cardiff University, UK, a visiting lecturer in the MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, and has held academic positions in a number of other UK academic institutions including the University of London, University College London, Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College London, the University of Westminster and the University of Essex. His full biography can be seen here.
Research Interests
- Environmental Law
- Climate Change Law
- Energy and Natural Resources Law
- Environmental Crime
- International Human Rights Law (including Indigenous Peoples’ Rights)
- Transnational Criminal Law
- International Economic Law
- Law of the Sea and Oceans Governance
Research Project
UNEP study on Environmental Courts and Tribunals: A Guide for Policy Makers (2021 -)
His first research project at APCEL, under the direction of Associate Professor Dr Jolene Lin and Dr Linda Sulistiawati, aims to update the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) comprehensive study on environmental courts and tribunals worldwide.
As part of this study his research has focused on the evolution of environmental courts and tribunals in regional contexts, in particular in South America and North America.
Recent/Selected Publications
Journal articles
- Pereira, R., ‘After the ICC Office of the Prosecutor 2016 Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation: Towards an International Crime of Ecocide?’ [2020] 31(2) Criminal Law Forum, 179-224 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10609-020-09393-y
- Pereira, R., ‘Towards Effective Implementation of the EU Environmental Crime Directive? The Case of Illegal Waste Management and Trafficking Offences’ [2017] 26(2) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 147-162 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/reel.12207
- Pereira, R., ‘Government-Sponsored Population Policies and Indigenous Peoples: Challenges for International Human Rights Law’ [2015] 33(4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 437-482 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/016934411503300405
- Pereira, R. and Gough, O., ‘Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in the 21st Century: Natural Resources Governance and the Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples under International Law’ [2013] 14(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law, 451-495 https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1687487/04PereiraGough-Depaginated.pdf
- Pereira, R. and others, ‘The Case for Regulating Nanotechnologies: International, European and National Perspectives’ [2013] 22(2) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 131-145 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/reel.12029
- Pereira, R., ‘On the Legality of the Ship-Source Pollution 2005/35/EC Directive: the Intertanko Case and Selected Others’ [2008] 17(6) European Energy & Environmental Law Review, 372-383 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289906006_On_the_legality_of_the_Ship-Source_Pollution_200535EC_Directive_-_The_Intertanko_case_and_selected_others
Books
- 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 2020)
- Pereira, R., ’Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law’ (Brill, 2015)
- Pereira, R. and Makuch, K.E. (eds), Environmental and Energy Law (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012)
Chapters in edited book collections
- Pereira, R., ‘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, 2020)
- Pereira, R., ‘Pollution from Seabed Activities’, in D. Attard, M. Fitzmaurice, N. Martinez and R. Hamza (eds.) IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law (Volume III) (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Pereira, R. and Nield, K., ‘Financial Crimes in the European Carbon Markets’ in Stefan Weishaar (ed) Research Handbook on Emissions Trading (Edward Elgar, 2016)
- Pereira, R., ‘Environmental Regulation, Business Competitiveness and Corporate Responsibility’ in K. Makuch, Karen and R. Pereira (eds.) ‘Environmental and Energy Law’ (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012)