Lori Frater

Career Experience and Qualifications

Lori holds a degree in law from King’s College, London, degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde, a Masters of Environmental Law from Sydney University and was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2000 after completing the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law.

After completing her business degree Lori worked for a number of years in the Arts including being the co-founder of a large arts and entertainment venue in Glasgow where she held the position of Executive Director and Company Secretary.

Prior to joining BRASS, Lori worked for Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer in their Environment, Planning and Regulatory group, for the Environment Agency in both waste and environmental crime, the Waste Strategy team of the Welsh Assembly Government and for Natural England where she worked on regional biodiversity issues in the South East of England.

Lori had previously worked for BRASS as the Project Manager of the Commercial and Industrial Waste survey, which was conducted in partnership with Environment Agency Wales

Research Areas of Interest

Regulation of nanotechnology; biotechnology and the role of intellectual property rights; the role of international law on the protection of national and regional biodiversity; waste, resource conflict and the influencing, developing and implementing policy.

Links to BRASS Projects

Recent Outputs

Working Papers

Publication

  • Frater, L. & Lee, R., (2008), Surveying Waste Arisings and Developing Waste Policy: Problems & Pitfalls, Journal of Law & Society, 35s1, 52-66
  • Frater, L. (2005) Sustainable Waste Management, The Challenge for Welsh Business, Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility, (Ed., Tully, S.), Edward Elgar
  • Frater, L & Lee, R, (2005) Business & Environment, UNEP Handbook on Business & Environmental Law, UNEP
  • Frater and J. Dijkshoorn (2005) Commercial and Industrial Waste Production Survey: Business Awareness amongst Welsh Companies (for Welsh Assembly Government)
  • Frater, L. (2002), A Review of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law in the People's Republic of China, 7 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 89-107

Presentations

  • Frater, L. & Lee, R. 2008, The Role of Social Enterprises in an Integrated Waste Management Infrastructure, Waste in Wales 2008, Cardiff
  • Frater, L. & Lee, R. 2008,  Waste Management & Regulation in Wales: Current Challenges & Future Directions, Waste in Wales 2008, Cardiff
  • Frater, L., 2007, Holistic Approaches to Waste Management - Research for Sustainability and Integration at the Local & Regional Level, LARCI Conference
  • Frater, L., 2007, Current Regulations affecting the Development & Marketing of Nanomaterials, Cardiff Nanoscience Annual Meeting
  • Frater, L., Stokes, E., 2007, Nanomaterials – Where are the Gaps in the Regulation? UKELA Annual Conference
  • Frater, L. & Lee, R., 2005, Data, Data Everywhere nor any time to think, W.G. Hart Legal Workshop, London
  • Frater, L., 2004, The impact of economic and political geography on the implementation of 3R strategies, Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Conference
  • Frater, L., 2004, Waste challenges for Local Authorities, LARAC
  • Frater, L., 2003, Business & Waste, IEMA

Reports

Books

  • Frater, L., Morley, A. and Hines, F. (2008) The Role of Social Enterprises in an Integrated Waste Management Infrastructure, Waste 2008: Waste and Resource Management - a Shared Responsibility, Waste Conference Ltd, Townshend,
    ISBN-13: 9780953930142

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