Ms. Andrea Ross

Email: a.p.ross@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 385070

Room No: 4.14

Degrees

1986 BA programme University of Western Ontario, London Ontario
1989 LL.B Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto
1992 LL.M in Environmental Law University of Aberdeen

Biography

Andrea Ross joined the Department of Law in 1996, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2000 and again to Reader in 2011. She was previously a lecturer in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Aberdeen. A qualified barrister and solicitor in Ontario Canada, she has also worked as corporate counsel in the head office of investment company Midland Walwyn Inc.

Ms Ross has taught and researched in the areas of public and environmental law for over eighteen years. The co-author of a book on Scottish devolution and the editor of a collection on environmental regulation, she is most well-known for her extensive research into the concept of sustainable development. Indeed her most recent project is a monograph for Earthscan Publications on UK Sustainable Development Law. Ms Ross has held research grants from the AHRC, ESRC, British Academy, British Council, UKCLE, SPTL, Scottish Natural Heritage, Overseas Development Agency and Aberdeen University. She has contributed to inquiries both in the UK and Scottish Parliaments. She regularly responds to consultations in relation to UK and Scottish environmental and planning law and has recently been appointed as the academic member of the Law Society for Scotland’s planning law sub-committee. She is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Socio-Legal Studies Association, International Sustainable Development Research Society and is a regular contributor to academic and professional journals and conferences.

Teaching

Undergraduate:- Legal Methods and Systems, English Property Law, Planning law, Environmental law

Postgraduate:- Sustainable development, environmental justice.

She is currently supervising one post-doctoral researcher, and three Ph.D students. Research supervision is offered in the fields of sustainable development, environmental law and constitutional law.

Ms Ross regularly presents at seminars on Education for Sustainable Development such as those provided by the Higher Education Academy, individual universities and the United Kingdom Centre for Legal Education. In 2002, she was part of the team which produced a report into the teaching of environmental law funded by UKCLE.

Research

Two overarching themes are prominent in her research: the accountability of government and the implementation of sustainable development. Recent work on governance includes an examination of the implementation of Community law in the Scotland and Wales post devolution funded by the AHRC.

Work into governance for sustainable development has examined the evolution of the UK’s interpretation of sustainable development and its effect on the Government's environmental agenda; the UK approach to sustainable development in government as a case study in joined up working; the approach taken in Scotland to sustainable development in government post devolution; the use of the term ‘sustainable development’ in Acts of the UK and Scottish Parliament, and the relationship between strategies and indicators for sustainable development.

Funding from the British Council has recently allowed Ms Ross to re examine the value of sustainable development in the context of 21st century issues such as climate change. She has also developed three possible legislative models to support the true implementation of sustainable development and is working on a monograph on UK Sustainable Development Law for Earthscan Publications.

Selected Publications

Articles

2010 Andrea Ross, "It’s time to get serious - why legislation is needed to make sustainable development a reality in the UK" in Sustainability 2010, 2, pp. 1101 -1127
2009 Andrea Ross, "European Union Environmental Law & who legislates for whom in a devolved Great Britain" with Nash H in Public Law (July)
2009 Andrea Ross, "Modern Interpretations of Sustainable Development" in Journal of Law and Society 36(2), pp. 32-54
2009 Andrea Ross, "The implementation of EU environmental law in Scotland " with Nash H and Reid CT in Edinburgh Law Review 13, pp. 224-251
2008 Andrea Ross, "Multi-level governance - a study of the implementation of environmental law in post-devolution Scotland" with Nash H and Reid CT in Environmental Law and Management 19(4), pp. 159-169
2008 Andrea Ross, "Why legislate for sustainable development? An examination of sustainable development provisions in the UK and Scottish statutes" in Journal of Environmental Law 20(1), pp. 35-68
2006 Andrea Ross, "Sustainable development in Scotland post-devolution" in Environmental Law Review 8(1), pp. 6-32
2005 Andrea Ross, "The U.K. Approach to delivering sustainable development in government: a case study in joined up working" in Journal of Environmental Law 17(1), pp. 27-49
2003 Andrea Ross, "Is the environment getting squeezed out of sustainable development" in Public Law (Summer 2003), pp. 249-259
2003 Andrea Ross, "The Effect of Devolution on the Implementation and Development of EC law in Spain and the UK" with Salvador Crespo M. in 28 European Law Review Apr., pp. 210-230
2000 Andrea Ross, "Justifying Environmental Regulation: Environmental Justice and the Public Interest Theory of Regulation" in Hume Paper on Public Policy 8(2), Ross A.(eds), pp. 6-37
2000 Andrea Ross, "Greening Government -Tales from the new Sustainability Watchdog" in Journal of Environmental Law 12(2), pp. 175-196
1998 Andrea Ross, "Monitoring Environmental Performance in Government: the role of the new House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee" in Public Law (Summer 1998), pp. 190-200
1998 Andrea Ross, "Implied Permission and the Freedom to Roam" with Rowan-Robinson J. in Edinburgh Law Review 2(2), pp. 225-232

Books

1999 Andrea Ross, "A Guide to the Scotland Act 1998 " with A. Page and C.T. Reid, Butterworths ISBN: 9780406988065

Book Chapters

2010 Andrea Ross, 'Sustainable Development Indicators and a Putative Argument for Law: A Case Study of the UK' in French, D.(eds) Global Justice and Sustainable Development (Martinus Nijhoff: Leiden, The Netherlands)
2009 Andrea Ross, 'Modern interpretations of sustainable development' in R. Lee, E. Stokes(eds) Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localisation (2009), pp. 32-54)
2000 Andrea Ross, 'Introduction' in Ross A.(eds) Chapter 1 in Hume Papers on Public Policy 8(2) (Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-5)
2000 Andrea Ross, 'Justifying Environmental Regulation: Environmental Justice and the Public Interest Theory of Regulation' in Ross A.(eds) Hume Papers on Public Policy 8(2) (Edinburgh University Press, pp. 6-37 (Chapter 2))
1999 Andrea Ross, 'The Institutional Framework' in Scotland Mckenzie-Skene D, Rowan-Robinson J(eds) Chapter 2 in Countryside Law (T. and T. Clark)
1999 Andrea Ross, Rowan-Robinson J 'Non-Regulatory Instruments and Public Access to Environmental Information' in Bosselman K. and Richardson B(eds) Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms (Kluwer, pp. 265-275 (Chapter 16))