Biography

Joanne Scott has been appointed as Professor of European Law at the EUI from 1 April 2017.
She will be on special leave from the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL) where she has taught from 2005. Joanne taught previously at the Universities of Kent, Queen Mary and Cambridge and has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. She was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in 1997/98. Joanne was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Environmental challenges and climate change governance
• Environmental Law and Governance Working Group
• European Union Law Working Group
• International Economic Law and Policy Working Group

Completed

• Integrating diversity in the European Union
• The Court of Justice in the Archives

Supervisees

• Alexandros Lymperopoulos
• Antoine Portanguen
• Aruna Michiels
• Dorin-Ciprian Grumaz
• Elena Evangelidis
• Ielyzaveta Badanova
• Kunhao Yang
• Luna Mignosa
• Maia Perraudeau
• Marianna Hu
• Mark Soler
• Niels Hoek
• Paulien Van De Velde-Van Rumst
• Sophie Berner-Eyde

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• (2024), New frontiers of EU funding : law, policy, politics, Book
• KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2024), New frontiers of European Union funding, Contribution to book
• (2024), EU external relations and the power of law : liber amicorum in honour of Marise Cremona, Book
• MARIN DURAN, Gracia; SCOTT, Joanne (2024), Global EU climate action and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, Working Paper
• DE BURCA, Grainne; KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2022), Questioning the EU's 'principled openness' to international law : an examination of the Court's reception of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, Contribution to book
• PAGANO, Mario (2022), Overcoming Plaumann : Environmental NGOs and access to justice before the CJEU, Thesis

Supervision interests

"I would be interested in supervising students in all areas of environmental law including climate change law; and in European Union law more generally including especially its external relations dimensions”