Room 6.27 - Kramer Law Building

Alexander Paterson is a professor of law in the Institute for Marine & Environmental Law (IMEL) and convenes its Postgraduate Programmes on Environmental Law and Marine & Environmental Law. He joined the Institute Law in 2004 and holds a BSocSci LLB LLM (Environmental Law) PhD from the University of Cape Town. Prior to joining the Institute he practised as an environmental attorney at Winstanley Smith and Cullinan Inc. and environmental consultant with EnAct International. He has also worked in the NGO sector monitoring the progression of environmental legislation through Parliament. Alexander serves on the board of various regional and national institutions and is assistant editor of the South African Journal of Environmental Law. He is currently an active member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, World Commission of Environmental Law (WCEL) and World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). His areas of interest and research include biodiversity, protected areas, land use planning and incentive based environmental regulation. On weekends you will find him up a mountain or surfing in the cold Atlantic Ocean.

• You can access Prof Paterson's CV and List of Publications here.
• You can find out more about his research and social outreach projects on the IMEL website.