Ray's Biography
Ray Young practices law full-time both as a litigator and as a solicitor. He is a partner at Young, Anderson, Barristers and Solicitors. He has a Masters Degree in Community and Regional Planning, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Planning Institute of British Columbia. He has taught municipal law and land use law at the Faculty of Law UBC for eighteen years, and currently he is an adjunct professor teaching planning and land use law at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. He has, by invitation, been Visiting Professor at the University of Florida on three occasions where he taught land use law, and is visiting professor regularly at Georgia State University (Atlanta), where he teaches Growth Management Law. He has also lectured at Georgia Tech School of Planning and in Southwestern Law School's summer program on planning and land use law issues. In 2003-2004, Ray was designated a Senior Fulbright Scholar by the Canada/U.S. Fulbright Foundation, and spent some of that time in Atlanta researching the impact of NAFTA on planning and growth management regulation in Canada and the United States.
Ray’s practice focuses on judicial review litigation, local government law and governance, growth management, planning and land-use, and real estate development. He regularly appears in all levels of Court in British Columbia and has also appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada. Ray was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2010. In 2006 Ray presented a paper on Canadian Takings Law at the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (Denver University), and also presented a paper on 'Brownfields Development' at an international symposium in Atlanta sponsored by the Center for Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, Atlanta. In 2008, Ray presented a paper on regulating commercial wind farms at the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Denver, and again in 2011 presented a paper on Conditioning Development Approvals on Water and Energy Conservation. In October 2011, Ray will be speaking in San Diego at the 2011 Growth and Infrastructure Consortium Conference.