Andrew Jackson
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
Environmental lawyer
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Must-read: "Politicians should be careful about what the lobbyists wish for – the latter’s cures often make things worse.
The planning system is a key part of democracy and the legal system is how citizens hold power to account. Tinker with them at your peril"
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
The planning system is a key part of democracy and the legal system is how citizens hold power to account. Tinker with them at your peril"
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Lorcan Sirr: Judicial reviews are not the problem – and deregulation is no answer
We have seen before how cutting ‘red tape’ leads to disaster, especially in planning and housing
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Must-read: "Politicians should be careful about what the lobbyists wish for – the latter’s cures often make things worse.
The planning system is a key part of democracy and the legal system is how citizens hold power to account. Tinker with them at your peril"
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
The planning system is a key part of democracy and the legal system is how citizens hold power to account. Tinker with them at your peril"
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
www.irishlegal.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
Looking forward to speaking about climate law & KlimaSeniorinnen alongside @orlakelleher.bsky.social on 13th November at the Law Soc’s annual Environmental and Planning Law conference.
Registration details here www.lawsociety.ie/productdetai...
Registration details here www.lawsociety.ie/productdetai...
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looking forward to speaking about climate law & KlimaSeniorinnen alongside @orlakelleher.bsky.social on 13th November at the Law Soc’s annual Environmental and Planning Law conference.
Registration details here www.lawsociety.ie/productdetai...
Registration details here www.lawsociety.ie/productdetai...
Happy to see this new article published yesterday - co-authored with @orlakelleher.bsky.social
“The implications of the European Court of Human Rights' climate rulings for climate litigation in Ireland: a new legal reality”, in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal
“The implications of the European Court of Human Rights' climate rulings for climate litigation in Ireland: a new legal reality”, in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Happy to see this new article published yesterday - co-authored with @orlakelleher.bsky.social
“The implications of the European Court of Human Rights' climate rulings for climate litigation in Ireland: a new legal reality”, in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal
“The implications of the European Court of Human Rights' climate rulings for climate litigation in Ireland: a new legal reality”, in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal
Been working on an article over the summer? Please consider submitting to the Irish Journal of European Law!
Call for papers below - please circulate! Deadline for submissions 31 October 2025.
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Call for papers below - please circulate! Deadline for submissions 31 October 2025.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Been working on an article over the summer? Please consider submitting to the Irish Journal of European Law!
Call for papers below - please circulate! Deadline for submissions 31 October 2025.
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Call for papers below - please circulate! Deadline for submissions 31 October 2025.
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
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How wide is the margin of appreciation that states have when setting national carbon budgets under the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? 🌍📉
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.
verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.
verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...
July 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How wide is the margin of appreciation that states have when setting national carbon budgets under the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? 🌍📉
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.
verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.
verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...
Regarding the claim here that “Bord na Móna was an excellent example of appropriate engagement with environmental regulations working”
Bord na Móna had EPA licences but did not have planning permission for any of its peat extraction. Other companies have neither.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Bord na Móna had EPA licences but did not have planning permission for any of its peat extraction. Other companies have neither.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Illegal peat harvesting is still taking place on a large scale, EPA report finds
Local authority enforcement is ‘patently inadequate’, with equipment and warehouses on some sites
www.irishtimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Regarding the claim here that “Bord na Móna was an excellent example of appropriate engagement with environmental regulations working”
Bord na Móna had EPA licences but did not have planning permission for any of its peat extraction. Other companies have neither.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Bord na Móna had EPA licences but did not have planning permission for any of its peat extraction. Other companies have neither.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Write up of UCD’s MSc in Env and Climate Law trip to Brussels this week, part of my comparative ‘Environmental Moot Court’ module, run in partnership with universities in France, Germany & NL:
www.ucd.ie/law/news/ucd... @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/law/news/ucd... @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Write up of UCD’s MSc in Env and Climate Law trip to Brussels this week, part of my comparative ‘Environmental Moot Court’ module, run in partnership with universities in France, Germany & NL:
www.ucd.ie/law/news/ucd... @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/law/news/ucd... @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social
Call for papers for the next volume of the Irish Journal of European Law. Please circulate & consider submitting something yourself! Deadline for submissions: 23rd May 2025.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Call for papers for the next volume of the Irish Journal of European Law. Please circulate & consider submitting something yourself! Deadline for submissions: 23rd May 2025.
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Call for papers for the next volume of the Irish Journal of European Law. Please circulate widely and consider submitting something yourself! Deadline for submissions: 23rd May 2025.
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
March 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Call for papers for the next volume of the Irish Journal of European Law. Please circulate widely and consider submitting something yourself! Deadline for submissions: 23rd May 2025.
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Previous volume: isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Very happy to report that the latest volume of the Irish Journal of European Law has just been published! isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Lots of interesting articles, as ever, and look out for the forthcoming call for papers for the next volume.
Vol 26 on Westlaw soon and on HeinOnline later.
Lots of interesting articles, as ever, and look out for the forthcoming call for papers for the next volume.
Vol 26 on Westlaw soon and on HeinOnline later.
February 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Very happy to report that the latest volume of the Irish Journal of European Law has just been published! isel.ie/ijel/volume-...
Lots of interesting articles, as ever, and look out for the forthcoming call for papers for the next volume.
Vol 26 on Westlaw soon and on HeinOnline later.
Lots of interesting articles, as ever, and look out for the forthcoming call for papers for the next volume.
Vol 26 on Westlaw soon and on HeinOnline later.
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Truly, we are at a moment when we need organizations — the ABA, ALI, law firms, law schools — speaking out.
As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
It’s time for the lawyers.
As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
It’s time for the lawyers.
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Truly, we are at a moment when we need organizations — the ABA, ALI, law firms, law schools — speaking out.
As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
It’s time for the lawyers.
As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
It’s time for the lawyers.
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Glad to see the excellent article by Andrew Jackson & Orla Kelleher in the special edition of the Irish Jurist that I edited on Law in a Time of Crises was cited in today's High Court ruling by Humphreys J in Friends II courts.ie/acc/alfresco...
courts.ie
February 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Glad to see the excellent article by Andrew Jackson & Orla Kelleher in the special edition of the Irish Jurist that I edited on Law in a Time of Crises was cited in today's High Court ruling by Humphreys J in Friends II courts.ie/acc/alfresco...
UCD is hiring an Ad Astra Fellow: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice (incl climate justice)
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Initial term 5 yrs with possibility of permanency after a 4-year review. Closing date: 12 noon (Irish time) on 21st Feb 2025.
Please share!
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Initial term 5 yrs with possibility of permanency after a 4-year review. Closing date: 12 noon (Irish time) on 21st Feb 2025.
Please share!
February 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
UCD is hiring an Ad Astra Fellow: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice (incl climate justice)
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Initial term 5 yrs with possibility of permanency after a 4-year review. Closing date: 12 noon (Irish time) on 21st Feb 2025.
Please share!
www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...
Initial term 5 yrs with possibility of permanency after a 4-year review. Closing date: 12 noon (Irish time) on 21st Feb 2025.
Please share!
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Provided short (<15 min) presentation www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCaD... on 1.5-2°C carbon budgets, downscaling from Global values to Ireland. My contribution starts at 4m15s.
Thanks to Rose Wall & Clodagh Daly of communitylawandmediation.ie @clmirl.bsky.social for organising the online event
Thanks to Rose Wall & Clodagh Daly of communitylawandmediation.ie @clmirl.bsky.social for organising the online event
CEJ Webinar - Ireland's Climate Justice Obligations: Legal, Scientific, and Policy Priorities.
YouTube video by Community Law And Mediation CLM
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January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Provided short (<15 min) presentation www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCaD... on 1.5-2°C carbon budgets, downscaling from Global values to Ireland. My contribution starts at 4m15s.
Thanks to Rose Wall & Clodagh Daly of communitylawandmediation.ie @clmirl.bsky.social for organising the online event
Thanks to Rose Wall & Clodagh Daly of communitylawandmediation.ie @clmirl.bsky.social for organising the online event
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The Fellow will have demonstrated expertise in public international law and diverse global justice theories.
Ad Astra appointments are made at Lecturer/Assistant Professor grade. The initial term will be five years.
Closing date: 21st February 2025 (12:00 noon IST).
Competition ref no: 018086
Ad Astra appointments are made at Lecturer/Assistant Professor grade. The initial term will be five years.
Closing date: 21st February 2025 (12:00 noon IST).
Competition ref no: 018086
January 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Fellow will have demonstrated expertise in public international law and diverse global justice theories.
Ad Astra appointments are made at Lecturer/Assistant Professor grade. The initial term will be five years.
Closing date: 21st February 2025 (12:00 noon IST).
Competition ref no: 018086
Ad Astra appointments are made at Lecturer/Assistant Professor grade. The initial term will be five years.
Closing date: 21st February 2025 (12:00 noon IST).
Competition ref no: 018086
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In other @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social news, applications are invited for an Ad Astra Fellowship in International Law and Global Justice. This recruitment opportunity is part of @ucddublin.bsky.social's plan to hire 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows prog
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
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Explore a world of career possibilities at UCD. Find exciting job opportunities and shape your future with us. Join UCD now!
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January 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In other @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social news, applications are invited for an Ad Astra Fellowship in International Law and Global Justice. This recruitment opportunity is part of @ucddublin.bsky.social's plan to hire 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows prog
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
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This was a great talk. I recommend watching the recording when it is made available.
Some great insights about the ‘new legal reality’ of the climate act and how it is being interpreted in the courts.
Thanks to Rose Wall @clmirl.bsky.social and all the speakers for putting this together
Some great insights about the ‘new legal reality’ of the climate act and how it is being interpreted in the courts.
Thanks to Rose Wall @clmirl.bsky.social and all the speakers for putting this together
Looking forward to speaking about Ireland’s Climate Justice Obligations this Thursday from 12-1pm (free webinar) alongside @kevinclimate.bsky.social @oisinc.bsky.social & Rose Wall of Community Law & Mediation. Registration here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This was a great talk. I recommend watching the recording when it is made available.
Some great insights about the ‘new legal reality’ of the climate act and how it is being interpreted in the courts.
Thanks to Rose Wall @clmirl.bsky.social and all the speakers for putting this together
Some great insights about the ‘new legal reality’ of the climate act and how it is being interpreted in the courts.
Thanks to Rose Wall @clmirl.bsky.social and all the speakers for putting this together
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Excellent webinar, well worth watching back even for folk outside Ireland.
Chair: Rose Wall, CLM @clmirl.bsky.social
Speakers:
Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social ky.social
Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth @oisinc.bsky.social
Chair: Rose Wall, CLM @clmirl.bsky.social
Speakers:
Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social ky.social
Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth @oisinc.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who attended our free online webinar! - It outlined Ireland’s scientific and legal responsibilities on climate change, upcoming cases, and what the next Gov must do to close the gap.
To watch it back in case you missed it, visit:
tinyurl.com/c9evwpz2
To watch it back in case you missed it, visit:
tinyurl.com/c9evwpz2
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Excellent webinar, well worth watching back even for folk outside Ireland.
Chair: Rose Wall, CLM @clmirl.bsky.social
Speakers:
Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social ky.social
Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth @oisinc.bsky.social
Chair: Rose Wall, CLM @clmirl.bsky.social
Speakers:
Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social ky.social
Dr. Andrew Jackson, UCD @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth @oisinc.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking about Ireland’s Climate Justice Obligations this Thursday from 12-1pm (free webinar) alongside @kevinclimate.bsky.social @oisinc.bsky.social & Rose Wall of Community Law & Mediation. Registration here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Looking forward to speaking about Ireland’s Climate Justice Obligations this Thursday from 12-1pm (free webinar) alongside @kevinclimate.bsky.social @oisinc.bsky.social & Rose Wall of Community Law & Mediation. Registration here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Crikey. The judgment of Mr. Justice Humphreys in Coolglass is some read
January 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Crikey. The judgment of Mr. Justice Humphreys in Coolglass is some read
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Very significant High Court ruling here on the obligations imposed on public bodies by Section 15 of the Climate Act
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
High Court rules An Bord Pleanala must prioritise climate law in wind farm case likely to affect all public bodies
The High Court has ruled that planners did not fulfil their duty to comply with climate law in a judgement expected to have far-reaching implications for all public bodies.
www.independent.ie
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Very significant High Court ruling here on the obligations imposed on public bodies by Section 15 of the Climate Act
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
High Court of 🇮🇪 yesterday “the board (largely supported by the State) recoils in horror from the logical implications of this and demands the right to continue business as usual. But an immediate end to business as usual is a precondition for planetary survival” (para 91)
courts.ie/view/judgmen...
courts.ie/view/judgmen...
![First page of judgment in Coolglass Wind Farm v An Bord Pleanála [2025] IEHC 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sjznb6msdsbogkbwdorupxz3/bafkreibuf6f55ncbrllxwbxjdjs5ov7ritsxlcemf4b3hhypwx7o2m2jea@jpeg)
January 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
High Court of 🇮🇪 yesterday “the board (largely supported by the State) recoils in horror from the logical implications of this and demands the right to continue business as usual. But an immediate end to business as usual is a precondition for planetary survival” (para 91)
courts.ie/view/judgmen...
courts.ie/view/judgmen...
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Ireland's expert Council is now advocating "climate neutrality" as a gauge of equitable carbon budgeting rather than its previous 1.5ºC "Paris Test".
BUT this new framing unjustly moves the goal posts in Ireland's favour.
Easier, ambiguous goal framing only hides the urgency of 1.5ºC climate action.
BUT this new framing unjustly moves the goal posts in Ireland's favour.
Easier, ambiguous goal framing only hides the urgency of 1.5ºC climate action.
![Screenshot of Figure 4 from "Carbon Budgets Working Group Outputs Report", Climate Change Advisory Council, 2024, showing alternative Ireland scenarios for 2020-2100 with agricultural non-CO2 (methane and nitrous oxide) mitigation effort increasing from left to right. Scenarios with a blue vertical bar reach climate neutrality [= temperature neutrality] by 2050. In all cases, net zero CO2 occurs in 2043 with 2021–2050 emissions of 440 Mt.
– However, the neutrality outcome temperature levels are different from different scenarios so the neutrality gauge is ambiguous. Moreover, given our and CCAC previous research it is likely that many of the neutrality outcomes are reached in overshoot of a fair share 1.5ºC level, therefore they fail a Paris Test, so Irish climate ambition is likely weakened by using a neutrality framing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6lpspwgxnxbrzgomcwnfos7u/bafkreidgtusjzvmzluufitpvdhu546bbd5l6xzogiohmoqnaq5azgjxpnq@jpeg)
December 18, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Ireland's expert Council is now advocating "climate neutrality" as a gauge of equitable carbon budgeting rather than its previous 1.5ºC "Paris Test".
BUT this new framing unjustly moves the goal posts in Ireland's favour.
Easier, ambiguous goal framing only hides the urgency of 1.5ºC climate action.
BUT this new framing unjustly moves the goal posts in Ireland's favour.
Easier, ambiguous goal framing only hides the urgency of 1.5ºC climate action.