Elaine Fahey
Elaine Fahey is Jean Monnet Chair of Law & Transatlantic Relations and Professor of Law at the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), the City Law School, City, University of London. She has been co-convener of the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), City Law School since 2016. In 2022 she is Senior Visiting Fellow of Law and Innovation at the University of Graz and a visiting Professor at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington DC in 2023 on sabbatical leave. She was previously an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School and a visiting professor at Keio University Law School, Tokyo, Japan. She has worked a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Amsterdam Centre for European Law & Governance (ACELG) at the University of Amsterdam, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence and Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Law in Ireland (Dublin Institute of Technology; Trinity College Dublin). She has practised as a Barrister and was Chairperson of the Irish Society for European Law. She has been a stagiaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, a Judicial Research Assistant, Four Courts, Dublin and a Judicial Extern, Los Angeles Federal District Court (9th Circuit).
Her research interests span the relationship between EU law and global governance, trade, transatlantic relations, the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the study of law beyond the State. Her monograph, The EU as a Global Digital Actor is forthcoming in 2022, published by Hart.
She was recently awarded an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations and was co-investigator in the Marie Curie ITN on EU and Transatlantic Investment and Trade ('EUTIP') (2017-2021) and lead PI in the ESRC-funded FIC UK-EU-Japan SSH Connections grant, TRILATTRADE (2019-2020).