Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant
Tue 2 April 2024
Edinburgh Law School’s Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne has been awarded £391,748 by the Leverhulme Trust for her upcoming project titled ‘Taming the dark energy of EU law: The European Union’s unwritten constitution’. The project will run for four years and is due to start in September 2024.
Expanding on the project and reflecting on receiving the award, Professor Nic Shuibhne said: “This research adopts a ‘dark energy’ metaphor to study the principles of EU law that are not written into the EU Treaties yet anchor and propel the Union’s constitutional development in very significant ways. I am deeply grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding this work and excited to begin the process of growing our fantastic team of EU researchers here at Edinburgh Law School very soon.”
At Edinburgh Law School, Professor Nic Shuibhne is Professor of European Union Law and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Europa Institute. Her previous research examined questions of substantive EU law from a constitutional perspective, with a particular focus on principle-based analysis of free movement law and European Union citizenship.
The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant provides qualified researchers with the funds to undertake innovative and original research. The grant may be held for up to five years.