Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne

Professor of European Union Law

Co-director of Europa Institute; REF Co-ordinator; Head of Subject Area: EU Law

BCL, LLM, PhD

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Email: niamh.nicshuibhne@ed.ac.uk

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Niamh Nic Shuibhne is Professor of European Union Law. She is head of the EU Law Subject Area, coordinates the Law School’s preparations for REF 2029, and is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Europa Institute. She is one of the Joint Editors of the Common Market Law Review. She was Joint Editor of the European Law Review from 2009-2014 and remains a member of its Editorial Board.

Niamh’s current research is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (2024-2028). This project investigates the unwritten principles that drive the functioning and determine the constitutional health of the EU legal order. The project team researches these questions in both the internal and external spheres of EU action, exploring the invisibility, accountability, and ‘shareability’ of the EU’s constitution in light of the challenges that the EU must confront both within its borders and as an important actor in the fast-changing wider world. 

Niamh was previously awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016-2019) to undertake research on the legal framework guaranteeing equal treatment for EU citizens. That work examined how protection of the foundational commitment to equal treatment in EU law came to represent an ideological challenge to the sustainability of the Union more generally: how it became a ‘confounding’ rather than founding EU value.

Niamh’s comprehensive analysis of EU citizenship law was published by OUP in 2023.