School of Law

Staff

Biography
Brian Jack graduated in law from the University of East Anglia in 1986. In 1988 he was admitted as a solicitor to the Law Society of Northern Ireland. The University of Exeter in 1994 awarded him the degree of LLM in European Legal Studies and in 2000 he completed PhD research, into environmental regulation within the Common Agricultural Policy, at the University of Wales. Having initially worked in Northern Ireland as a solicitor in private practice, he spent one year as a lecturer in law at the University of Derby and five years as first a tutor and subsequently a lecturer in law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth before being appointed to the post of lecturer in law at Queen's University in 2001. He is a member of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and of the Agricultural Law Association and is also a case review editor for the Environmental Law Review.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Environmental Law (module co-ordinator)
• European Constitutional Law (module co-ordinator)
• European Substantive Law

Postgraduate

• European Constitutional Law (module co-ordinator)
• Law and Sustainable Development
  

Research

European Union Law, particularly in relation to Agriculture, Environmental Law and Rural Law.

Selected Publications

Tackling Eutrophication: The Implications of a Precautionary Approach, 2006 [15] European Environmental Law Review 354.

The European Community and Biodiversity Loss: Missing the Target? 2006 [13] Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 304.

Member State Responsibilities Concerning Nitrate Pollution and Eutrophication: A Role for the Waste Framework Directive? 2006 [18] Journal of Environmental Law 301.

European Agricultural Legislation in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: A Common Policy? 2004 [54] Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 377.

Nature Conservation and Human Rights: English Nature’s Role in the Notification and Confirmation of SSSI’s 2003 [5] Environmental Law Review 198.

Protecting the European Environment from the Community: The Case of Agriculture 2001 [3] Environmental Law Review 44.

Administration

• Member of the Law School Education (Undergraduate) Committee