Dr Owen McIntyre is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, Land-Use Planning Law, Equity, Comparative (French and German) Law at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of Irish and international journals and has been involved in a number of research projects funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority and the Irish Environment Protection Agency, and on behalf of the Heritage Council and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. He regularly acts a consultant for the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, EU, SIDA and GTZ in the areas of Environmental Law and Water Resources Law. Since 2004, he has served a member of the EBRD Project Complaint Mechanism (PCM). In 2008, he was designated a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency. He has published widely on environmental law issues. Dr Owen McIntyre holds a LLB (Hons) degree from University College Galway and a PhD from the University of Manchester.