HADJIYIANNI IOANNA

IOANNA HADJIYIANNI

22894596

...

Position

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Entity

Department of Law

Building/ Office

FEB 02 - Faculty of Economics and Management, B127

Address

University Campus

Ioanna Hadjiyianni was appointed as a Lecturer in Public Law at the Department of Law, University of Cyprus in January 2019 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in December 2022. In 2022, she was awarded the Young Researcher Award for Social Sciences and Humanities from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and is currently conducting research on internal and external aspects of EU environmental law. Ioanna is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press) as Editor for the Review Articles' Section since December 2020.

Before joining UCY, she was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. She received her PhD from the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London in June 2017. Her thesis investigates the extraterritorial reach of EU environmental law and has been published as a monograph with Hart Publishing in 2019. The monograph was shortlisted for the ‘2020 SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship’.

She has taught EU Law and Environmental Law at King’s College London as a visiting lecturer. Prior to joining King’s, she was a Schuman trainee at the Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament in Brussels. Ioanna holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and Policy from University College London and an LLB in English and European Law from Queen Mary University of London. At the University of Cyprus, she has been teaching courses relating to environmental law, climate change law, the fundamental principles of EU law, EU constitutional law, EU administrative law, and Research Methodology for PhD students.

Ioanna’s principal research interests concern the extraterritorial reach of EU law through unilateral trade-related environmental and climate change regulation and issues of access to justice in environmental matters. She is particularly interested in the legitimacy of the EU’s action in extending the scope of application of its domestic measures to third countries that do not usually have a say in the formulation and application of EU measures as explored in her monograph The EU as a Global Regulator for Environmental Protection: A Legitimacy Perspective. Within this context, she explored the specific case study of ship recycling regulation which resulted in the publication of her second monograph (co-authored) on The Regulatory Landscape of Ship Recycling in 2024.

Ioanna has expanded her research on the EU as a global regulator by exploring the extraterritorial reach of EU data protection regulation and more recently by studying new sources and purposes in the EU's new budget and recovery fund, including both environmental measures such as the plastic levy and the introduction of a carbon border adjustment mechanism, as well as non-environmental measures such as the digital levy. In this context, she delivered a Specialized Course on the topic of 'New Purposes and Sources of EU Funding' at the European University Institute Academy of European Law Summer Course on the Law of the European Union in the summer of 2021.

In broader societal engagement, Ioanna is working closely with environmental NGOs in Cyprus, and especially NGO Terra Cypria on issues relating to the legal protection of the environment. She joined the Foundation's Board of Trustees in 2021. Ioanna has also been involved in delivering training seminars on environmental law in Greek to judges as part of the seminar series of the Academy of European Law and capacity building seminars on access to justice in environmental matters to local environmental NGOs in Cyprus in cooperation with WWF-Greece. She has also been involved in consulting activities as a national expert in Cyprus for studies commissioned by the European Commission on issues including access to justice in environmental matters and conformity checking of Cypriot legislation with EU environmental directives.

The EU as a Global Actor
Environmental and Climate Change Law
Law of the European Union: constitutional, administrative, external relations.
International Environmental Law
Law of the World Trade Organization

Supervision Interests

Κeen to supervise students at undergraduate and postgraduate level (LLM and PhD) in environmental law including climate change law, and in EU law more generally, especially external relations aspects and its inter-relationship with international law.

Monographs

Ioanna Hadjiyianni and Kleoniki Pouikli, The Regulatory Landscape of Ship Recycling - The European Union as a Global Leader, Environmental Principles and Justice (Edward Elgar 2024, open access).
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, The EU as a Global Regulator for Environmental Protection: A Legitimacy Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2019) - shortlisted for the '2020 SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship'.

Journal Articles

Ioanna Hadjiyianni and Athena Herodotou, ‘The EU’s Representation in International Organizations: Case C-161/20 Commission v. Council (International Maritime Organization) (2023) 28(1) European Foreign Affairs Review.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, The CJEU as the ‘Gatekeeper’ of International Law in the EU Legal Order: The Case of WTO law and the Aarhus Convention (2021) 70(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 895.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, 'Judicial Protection and the Environment in the EU Legal Order: Missing Pieces for a Complete Puzzle of Legal Remedies' (2021) 58 Common Market Law Review 1-36.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘Multi-level governance in Action: Access to Justice in Light of the Aarhus Convention and its Implementation in the EU Legal Order’ (2020) 26(4) European Public Law 889-920.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The European Union as a Global Regulatory Power’ (2020) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies [review article].
Ioanna Hadjiyianni and Anna Kloni, ‘Regulating Shipbreaking as a Global Activity: Issues of Fragmentation and Injustice’ (2021) 33(1) Journal of Environmental Law [review article].
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, 'The Court of Justice of the European Union as a Transnational Actor through Judicial Review of the Territorial Scope of EU Environmental Law' (2019) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 128.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The Extraterritorial Reach of EU Environmental Law and Access to Justice by Third Country Actors’, Special Issue, M. Cremona and P. Leino (eds), The New Frontiers of EU Administrative Law, Is There an Accountability Gap in EU External Relations? (2017) 2(2) European Papers 519.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, Book Review, ‘Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade: Lessons from the EU Experience’ by Emily Reid (2015) 27(3) Journal of Environmental Law 562.

Book Chapters

Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The extraterritorial reach of environmental law: Legitimacy concerns and the role of domestic courts in controlling transnational regulatory power’ in Parrish and Ryngaert (eds) Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law (Edward Elgar, 2023) 373-389.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘Pre-WTO GATT Panels’ in Delimatsis and Reins, Encyclopedia on Trade and Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2021).
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The Global Reach of EU Law in the Digital Age: The Territorial Scope of Data Protection’ in T. Synodinou, Ph. Jougleux, Chr. Markou, Th. Prastitou (eds), EU Internet Law in the Digital Single Market (Springer, 2021).
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, Andreas Kapardis, Nicos Pavlides, ‘Water Crimes in Cyprus’ in K. Eman, L. Segato, M. Magliorini, G. Meško (eds), Water, Governance and Crime (Springer, 2020).
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The UK and the World: Environmental Law’, in A. Biondi and P. Birkinshaw (eds) Britain Alone. The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU (Kluwer Law International 2016).

Greek Publications

Ιωάννα Χατζηγιάννη, 'Πρόσβαση στη δικαιοσύνη για την προστασία του περιβάλλοντος: Το Έννομο Συμφέρον στην Κύπρο υπό το φως της Σύμβασης του Άαρχους και της Εφαρμογής της στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση' Περιβάλλον και Δίκαιο 2/2020, 224.
Ιωάννα Χατζηγιάννη, 'Η Παγκόσμια Εμβέλεια του Περιβαλλοντικού Δικαίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης' (2020) 2(1) Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκαιο 491.

Online Publications on Current Issues

Ioanna Hadjiyianni, Case C-561/20 Q v United Airlines, Inc. (C.J.E.U) (2023) 62(2) International Legal Materials 323-335 (open access).
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘Access to Justice in Environmental Matters: The Combined Effects of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention and Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, C-873/19)’, EU Law Live, 18 November 2022.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘How far can the extraterritorial reach of EU law go? A step further by the CJEU as a transnational actor’, European Law Blog, 19 May 2022.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni and Alexandros Vryonides, '“An Explicit a Right to the Environment: The Potential of an Environmental Lex Specialis to further ‘green’ the ECHR”, EU Law Live, 11 November 2021.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the EU Legal Order – Too little too late?’ European Law Blog, 4 November 2020.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The EU as a Global Climate Leader? Initial thoughts on the Introduction of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism’, Blog Droit Européen, 7 October 2020.
Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘Case C-535/18 Land Nordrhein-Westfalen: Access of individuals to national courts to challenge infringements of EU environmental law’, EU Law Live, 1 June 2020.

Work in progress

Ioanna Hadjiyianni, ‘The emergence of new own resources to strengthen the EU budget and achieve green policy objectives: A win-win or a difficult fit?’ in Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott (eds), New Frontiers of EU Funding: Law, Policy Politics (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law).