Cormac Cullinan
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Cormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a director of the leading South African environmental law firm, Winstanley & Cullinan Inc, and Chief Executive Officer of EnAct International, an environmental governance consultancy. A former anti-apartheid activist, and a London-based commercial lawyer, he has practised, taught and written about environmental law and policy since 1992, and has worked in more than 20 countries.
In the academic field he has lectured and written widely on governance issues related to human interactions with the environment and is notable for authoring a book, Wild Law, as well as several works commissioned and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He is a graduate of the University of Natal and the University of London (Kings College) and is an honorary research associate of the University of Cape Town.
[edit] Selected publications
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice, Green Books, Totnes, Devon, 2003 ISBN 1-9039998-35-2.
“Integrated Coastal Managment Law” Establishing and strengthening National Legal Frameworks for Integrated Coastal Management, FAO Legislative Study No. 93, Rome, 2006.
Recent trends in monitoring, control and surveillance systems for capture fisheries, by P Flewelling; C Cullinan; RP Sautter and JE Reynolds. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 415, Rome, FAO, 2002.
"Law and markets - Improving the legal environment for agricultural marketing" FAO, 2000, AGS Bulletin, No. 139.
"Land Ownership and Foreigners: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Approaches to the Acquisition and Use of Land by Foreigners." FAO Legal Papers Online, 1999.
Author of legal section of Integrated coastal area management and agriculture, forestry and fisheries. FAO Guidelines (N Scialabba (ed.) Environment and Natural Resource Service, FAO, Rome. 256p.
Legal and institutional aspects of integrated coastal area management in national legislation. FAO Legislative study, 1994 (118 pages).
[edit] Other literature
Stephen Harding, 'Earthly rights', The Guardian newspaper, London, April 2007
Simon Boyle, 'On thin ice', The Guardian newspaper, London, November 2006
[edit] External links
Winstanley & Cullinan Inc, a specialist environmental law firm, based in Cape Town, South Africa. View Cormac Cullinan’s CV.
EnAct International, an environmental law consultancy based in Cape Town, South Africa.
