Biography

Ioanna Hadjiyanni received her PhD from the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.Her thesis investigated the exercise and control of EU regulatory power beyond EU borders through internal environmental measures with extraterritorial implications.Her principal research interests concern the extraterritorial reach of EU environmental law beyond EU borders through unilateral trade-related environmental and climate change measures.Her broader research and academic interests extend to EU administrative, constitutional and external relations law, international public law, as well as the intersection of international trade and environmental protection within the World Trade Organisation.She has taught EU Law and Environmental Law at undergraduate level at King’s College London as a visiting lecturer. During her time at King’s, Ioanna co-convened the third and fourth UCL-KCL Postgraduate Research Environmental Law Symposiums, and served as the co-editor of the King’s Student Law Review blog on EU law and the president of the Graduate Legal Research Society for 2015-2016.Prior to joining King’s, she was a Schumann trainee at the Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament in Brussels. Ioanna holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and Policy from University College London and an LLB in English and European Law from Queen Mary University of London.