Franco-Scottish Perspectives on Property, Sustainability and Land Reform

Join us for an exciting hybrid event in collaboration with the University of Glasgow School of Law. This will bring together legal scholars and practitioners from across Scotland and France to discuss contemporary challenges and opportunities related to property, sustainability, and land reform from different legal and comparative perspectives. Through a series of sessions, we shall explore the land reform and sustainability aspects of community rights to buy, ownership and forest governance, and residential tenements. All are welcome. Refreshments will be provided throughout the afternoon. 

 

For more information and to register to attend, please see our Eventbrite page.

 

 

Event details:

Date: 9 May 2025

Time: 13.00-17.00 (BST)

Location: Room 237C in the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Virtual attendance: See Eventbrite for Zoom link

 

Introduction and welcome by the Chair

 

Session I: The Scottish human rights approach to land reform

 

Dr Kirsten Shields – Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Questions and answers

 

 

Session II: Community rights to buy for sustainable and ecological projects

 

Calum Steward – PhD, University of Glasgow

Adrien Roussel Jourde – Notary, Les Notaires du Quai Voltaire in Paris

Questions and answers

 

 

Break

 

 

Session III: Ownership concentration/ fragmentation and forest governance

 

Dr Craig Anderson – Senior Lecturer, University of Stirling

Éric Meiller – PhD, Notary, Camus-Ziegler-Meiller in Saint-Chamond

Questions and answers

 

 

Session IV: Residential tenements, climate proofing and energy transition

 

Prof. Andrew Steven – Professor, University of Edinburgh

Dr Flora Vern – Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow

Questions and answers

 

 

Closing speech

Andy Wightman – Former MSP and writer on Scottish property and land reform