Yvonne Scannell

Biography

Professor Yvonne Scannell teaches Irish and European Environmental Law, Planning Law, Legal Systems and Methods and Contract. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge University. She has written six books and numerous articles on Environmental and Planning Law and some on Constitutional Law. She has been consistently nominated as one of Ireland’s leading environmental lawyers in professional surveys. Dr. Scannell has served on the Boards of Forfas, An Foras Forbartha, Habitat for Humanity, the Irish National Petroleum Corporation and on the Advisory Board of the EPA. She has worked for UNDP and the EU in Eastern Europe and she is on the Environmental Panel of the International Court of Arbitration. She is currently on the Boards of CIE, the EBS and Tara Mines. Dr. Scannell also practices as a consultant on Environmental and Planning Law with Arthur Cox, Solicitors.