Karen Scott

Karen Nadine Scott is a New Zealand Law academic and a full professor at the University of Canterbury. In June 2019, she was elected President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.

Academic career

After completing her LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Nottingham, she lectured there before moving to the University of Canterbury, where she became a full professor and head of school. The University of Canterbury was the first law school to have a female dean (Ursula Cheer) and head of school (Scott).

Scott's research interests encompass Antarctic law, the law of the sea, environmental law and international trade law.

Selected works

• Rothwell, Donald, Alex G. Oude Elferink, Karen N. Scott, and Tim Stephens, eds. The Oxford handbook of the law of the sea. Oxford Handbooks in Law, 2015.
• Hemmings, Alan D., Donald R. Rothwell, and Karen N. Scott, eds. Antarctic security in the twenty-first century: legal and policy perspectives. Routledge, 2012.
• Scott, Karen N. "International law in the anthropocene: responding to the geoengineering challenge." Michigan Journal of International Law 34 (2012): 309.
• Scott, Karen N. "International regulation of undersea noise." International & Comparative Law Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2004): 287–323.
• Scott, Karen N. "Tilting at offshore windmills: regulating wind farm development within the renewable energy zone." Journal of Environmental Law 18, no. 1 (2005): 89–118.

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