Ioanna Hadjiyianni

Ioanna’s research focuses on EU Environmental Law and Governance. Her thesis explores an emerging legal phenomenon; the pursuit of EU green leadership through internal measures with varying external and extraterritorial implications. In particular, her thesis examines the great variety of these measures and the transnational regulatory interactions triggered externally by these measures. It aims to develop a comprehensive framework through which to analyse legal and legitimacy questions raised by this legal activity.

Her research and academic interests extend to International Environmental Law, European Union Law, Public International Law and WTO law. She is supervised by Dr Eloise Scotford and Dr Federico Ortino. Her PhD is funded by the Dickson Poon School of Law Postgraduate Research Student Scholarship.

Ioanna has been a PhD researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law King’s College London since October 2013. She is currently the co-editor and manager of the King's Student Law Review Blog on EU law and the President of the Graduate Legal Research Community. She is a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London contributing to the LLB module on Environmental Law for 2015-2016. She was a visiting tutor at King’s College London for the LLB module of European Law for 2014-2015. She has co-convened the third UCL-KCL Postgraduate Environmental Law Symposium 2015.  Prior to joining King’s College London, she was a Schumann trainee at the Directorate General Internal Policies, Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Ioanna obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and Policy, with distinction from University College London (UCL) in 2012. She completed her undergraduate degree in English and European Law (LLB – 4 year course) at Queen Mary University of London in 2011, having also spent a year studying law in French at Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. 

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European Union Law, Environmental law, Climate Change law, WTO law, International Public Law