Professor of Environmental Law, Sussex Law School.
Donald McGillivray is Professor of Environmental Law at Sussex Law School. He has 30 years’ experience researching and teaching environmental law. He previously served as Head of the Law School at Sussex and, before that, was a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. Donald currently convenes the MA Law course at Sussex, a one year law conversion degree course.
Donald is a co-author of Bell, McGillivray, Pedersen, Lees and Stokes, Environmental Law (10th ed, OUP, 2024) and has a broad interest in all aspects of environmental law. He is the Consulting Editor on Volume 78 of Halsbury's Laws of England, 'Open Spaces and Countryside'. His current research interests include biodiversity and nature conservation law and – reflecting his research and teaching interests in land law - the law relating to the protection and sharing of open spaces including town and village greens.
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He has over 30 years’ experience researching and teaching environmental law. He was previously Professor of Law at the Kent Law School.