PEOPLE

Managing Director

David Slater

Associates

William Wilson

John Murlis

Ray Purdy

Philip Bowen

John Comber

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Raymond Purdy - Associate

• LLM Environmental Law (merit + thesis with distinction)
• LLB Hons Law (2:1 + thesis with distinction)
  

Academic Appointments

2003 - Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College, London.

2000 - 2002 - Research Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College, London.

1996 - 2000 - Research Associate in Environmental Law and Policy, Imperial College, London (Visiting Researcher 2000 -)

1998 - 1999 - Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Law, City University, London

1995 - Research Assistant in Environmental Law and Policy, University of Oxford

External Appointments

2004 - Expert Reviewer Intergovemental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III

2003 - Managing Editor, Climate Policy (Elsevier Press)

2000 - 2002 - Assistant Editor, Climate Policy (Elsevier Press)

1995 - 1999 - Assistant Editor, Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press)

Selected Research Projects

• April 2004 onwards – Improving Airport Efficiency, Security and Passenger Flow by Enhanced Passenger Monitoring (European Commission)

• February 2004 onwards - Conformity checking of measures by the United Kingdom and Gibraltar to Transpose Directives in the Sector of the Environment (European Commission)

• February 2003 –December 2003 – An Evaluation of European Centres of Excellence in Remote Sensing Law and Opportunities for a Centre in the United Kingdom (British National Space Centre, UK)

• September 2002 – August 2003 – Integrated Assessment of Geological Carbon Sequestration in the UK: The Legal Dimension (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK)

• March 2002 – August 2002 – Framework Authorisations and Sector Agreements under the IPPC Directive (National Society for Clean Air and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, UK)

• March 2002 – May 2002 - The Implementation of Indigenous Knowledge Rights in the Philippines (World Bank)

• May 2001 – February 2002 –Drafting of Waste Legislation (Hong Kong Government, Environmental Protection Department)

• May 2001-June 2001 – Implementing Environmental Impact Assessment (Spanish Government)

• December 2000 – May 2001 – Satellite Images and the Law (British National Space Centre)

• October 2000 – May 2001 – The Transposition in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar of EC Directive 85/337 on the Assessment of the Effects of Certain Public and Private Projects on the Environment, As Amended by Directive 97/11/EC (European Commission)

• February 2000 – October 2000 – The Impact of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 and the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development) Order 1995 on the Delivery of Integrated Transport and other Planning Policy Objectives (Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions, UK)

• January 1998 –September 2000 - APERTURE - Legal Implications of Satellite Imagery (European Commission)

• October 1996 – December 1997 - PENELOPE - Comparative Teaching Tool on EIA systems in Member States (European Commission)

• January - June 1997 - The Regulation and Control of Releases of Non-Indigenous Species in Great Britain (for the University of Bremen, on behalf of the German Environment Ministry)

• April - May 1997 - Analysis of the Transboundary Shipment of Waste Regulation (for the University of Bremen, on behalf of the State of Sachsen Anhalt, Germany)

• January - April 1996 - The Regulation and Control of Genetically Modified Organisms in the United Kingdom (for the University of Bremen, on behalf of the German Environment Ministry)

• October – December 1995 – The Disposal and Transportation of the Brent Spar (Shell, UK)

Publications

• Purdy, R & Macrory, R. Geological carbon sequestration: critical legal issues, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Working Paper No. 45, January 2004.

• Purdy, R & Macrory, R. Satellite Photographs: 21st Century Evidence? New Law Journal, March 7, 2003.

• Purdy, R et al Applications of Earth Observation to the Legal Sector, BNSC publications, 2001.

• Purdy, R. et al The Impact of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 and the Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development) Order 1995 on the Delivery of Integrated Transport and Other Planning Policy Objectives, DLTR publications, 2001.

• Purdy, R. The Use of Satellite Images as Evidence in Environmental Actions in Great Britain, (with Macrory, R), Droit Et Ville, n° 51, France, June, 2001.

• Purdy, R. Book Review of: A Consumers Guide to GM Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings, Alan McHughen, Journal of Environmental Law 12(3), pp408-410, 2000
  Purdy, R. Book Review of: Law and Human Genetics – Regulating a Revolution, Eds R. Brownsword, WR Cornish, M Llewellyn, Journal of Environmental Law 12(2), pp249-250, 2000.

• Purdy, R. Legal and Privacy Issues of Spy in the Sky Satellites, Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies, vol 3(1), 1999.

• Purdy, R. The Regulation and Control of Releases of Non-Indigenous Species in Great Britain, (with Macrory, R), in Fisahn, A & Winter, G (ed.) Die Aussetzung gebietsfremder Organismen - Recht und Praxis; Umwelt Bundes Amt Germany, 1999.

• Purdy, R. Cause for Concern: Procedures for the release of genetically modified organisms need closer scrutiny, (with Hession, M.), Financial Times, August 14, 1998.

• Purdy, R. The Regulation and Control of Genetically Modified Organisms in the United Kingdom, (with Macrory, R), in Winter, G (ed.) Die Prüfung der Freisstzung von gentechnisch veränderten Organismen; Umwelt Bundes Amt, Germany, 1998.

• Purdy, R. The Enforcement of EC Environmental Law Against Member States, (with Macrory, R), in Holder J (ed.) The Impact of EC Law in the UK, Wiley Press, UK, 1997.
  

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