Ms. Jennifer Ross-Jones
McGill University, Faculty of Law

Ms. Jennifer Ross-Jones Honours B.A. Environmental Studies (U of Ottawa), second year B.C.L./L.L.B. student (McGill), is a legal researcher at the CISDL. She has held various research positions in the field of environmental policy, including internships at the Sustainable Consumption and Environmental Emergencies divisions of Environment Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. She also presented a summary of her thesis research on land-use projects in developing countries at the America’s Regional BirdLife Partnership Workshop on Climate Change in Asunción, Paraguay in 2003. Following in this suit, she served as a research officer at the BirdLife Secretariat in the United Kingdom, where she drafted a practical Guide for the Partnerships’ implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Further in pursuit of her interests in environmental law, she earned a training certificate from a ‘Training Course in European and International Environmental Law’, in 2005 (Université de Montréal). She is currently ‘Administrative Coordinator’ of Environmental Law McGill, and a regular volunteer at the McGill Legal Information Clinic. Having completed the International Baccalaureate program in Caracas, Venezuela, she speaks English and Spanish fluently, and advanced French. Her interests are environmental law, and land use planning. Her extra-curricular interests include culinary arts, wine tasting, water skiing and latin dancing.