Richard Macrory

Richard Brabazon Macrory, CBE, Hon KC (born 30 March 1950) is Emeritus Professor of environmental law at University College London. He is one of the leading environmental lawyers of his generation, and has had a significance influence of the development of British environmental law and policy.

Macrory served as a board member of the Environment Agency England and Wales between 1999 and 2004, and was a long-standing member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. In 2006, Macrory led the Cabinet Office Review on Regulatory Sanctions and his recommendations led to profound changes in the design and enforcement of sanctions in England and Wales. Macrory was the first chair of the UK Environmental Law Association.

Macrory is a non-executive board member of the Office for Environmental Protection, an Emeritus Professor with the Faculty of Laws, University College, London and a Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.

He is the author of several books on environmental law including Regulation Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law (2nd edition 2014) and Irresolute Clay – Shaping the Foundations of Modern Environmental Law (2020), and over 150 articles on various aspects of environmental law. Provided by Wikipedia