Calum Stewart is a legal scholar with an interest in legal geography, with a particular focus on property law. His research explores the spatial dimensions of legal practices and relationships, examining how property law shapes and is shaped by the material world.
His interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the interplay between property rights, state regulation and environmental change in the face of the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. His focus is on critically analysing the material impacts of property law and the capacities and limitations of legal regulation to address rapidly degrading Earth systems.
Calum graduated with a law degree from the University of Glasgow in 2015 and spent the following year as a legal assistant at the Scottish Law Commission working on lease reform. Subsequently, he obtained the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice and undertook a legal traineeship between 2017 and 2019, qualifying as a solicitor. Following this, Calum joined the Scottish Land Commission, working on aspects of land reform. Calum obtained his LLM (Research) from the University of Glasgow before undertaking a PhD, supervised by Professor Jill Robbie and Dr Giedre Jokubauskaite.
Research Interests:
Property law
History and theory of property law, particularly in Scotland
Interdisciplinarity
Land use governance
Regulation of private property rights for climate change mitigation and biodiversity recovery
Legal geography
Conservation practices
Article
Voluntary Carbon Markets and Net Zero in Scotland: A Property and Place Perspective
Stewart C (2025) Voluntary Carbon Markets and Net Zero in Scotland: A Property and Place Perspective. Carbon & Climate Law Review, 19 (1), pp. 3-14. https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2025/1/4
