DrAndrew Jackson

Dr. Andrew Jackson is an environmental and planning lawyer, with broad interests in these fields at international, EU and Irish levels. He previously worked for the international law firm Slaughter and May, in London and Paris; for the UK government's legal service, in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra); and with NGOs Friends of the Irish Environment and An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, where he was Natural Environment Officer and In-house Solicitor.

Dr. Jackson directs UCD's MSc in Environmental and Climate Law. He has been involved in public interest environmental and planning litigation for many years, including before the Irish, English and EU courts. From 2017-2020, he acted for Friends of the Irish Environment in 'Climate Case Ireland', which ultimately succeeded in July 2020 before the Supreme Court of Ireland, becoming only the second case globally (after Urgenda in the Netherlands) in which an apex court ordered a government to revise its national climate policy. Dr. Jackson is a member of The Access Initiative and ELAW (Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide), two global alliances of public interest environmental lawyers, scientists and other advocates. He is also a member of the Environmental and Planning Committee of the Law Society of Ireland, and is co-Editor in Chief of the Irish Journal of European Law.

Dr. Jackson is a graduate of Oxford University (BA, Law) and of Cambridge University (LLM). He also holds an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and a PhD from TCD.