Yvonne Scannell
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Honora Josephine Yvonne Scannell is Professor of Environmental Law in Trinity College, Dublin Law School, Ireland.[1] She received a master's degree from Cambridge University and a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin.
As well as lecturing, she works as a consultant in Environmental, Planning and Climate Change Law at the Arthur Cox law firm in Dublin, a post that she has held since April 1990.[1] She is also currently a director on the boards of Tara Mines, Coillte and CIE[1] She has written the leading textbook in Ireland on that subject. She is a qualified barrister in King's Inns. She received the Spirit of Columbus Award for her Contribution to the Environment in 1994 and was the Francis E Lewis scholar at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, in Virginia, USA in 1996.[2] She is widely published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including the Irish Planning and Environmental Journal.[3] She campaigned with her fellow professor Ivana Bacik against the proposed amendment to the Irish Constitution in 2002 which would have removed suicide as a grounds for abortion.[4]
Publications[]
Books[]
- Environmental and Land Use Law (Thomson Round Hall) (Brehon Series) (2005)
- Environmental and Planning Law, Irish Academic Press, 1995
- The Habitats Directive in Ireland (with Clarke, Cannon, Doyle) (Centre for Environmental Policy and Law) (1999. Reprinted 2000).
- Ireland, International Encyclopaedia of Laws, The Hague, Kluwer, 1994,
- The Law and Practice Relating to Pollution Control in Ireland, (2nd ed.) London, Graham and Trotman, 1982,
- The Law and Practice Relating to Pollution Control in Ireland, London, Graham and Trotman,
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- Living people
- 20th-century Irish people
- 21st-century Irish people
- Irish barristers
- Environmental lawyers
- Environmental law in Ireland
- Academics of Trinity College Dublin
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Irish women lawyers
- Alumni of King's Inns