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School of Law

Dr Eva Nanopoulos

Eva

Reader in Law

Email: e.nanopoulos@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Mile End

Profile

Eva joined Queen Mary in 2016, having previously taught at Sidney Sussex College and King’s College, Cambridge. Her work draws on decolonial, feminist, and Marxist theory to develop historically informed and potentially transformative critiques of public law, broadly construed to include EU law, international law, and constitutional law. She is particularly interested in understanding the historical development, specificity and dynamics of capitalism and capitalist imperialism, as well as the role of law in these processes. In that context, she has been particularly concerned to develop a better understanding of some of the key binaries that structure our global social totality, such as the distinction between war and peace, the political and the economic, and the mind and body. She is author of The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law (Hart, 2020) and co-edited The Crisis Behind the Euro-Crisis: The Euro-Crisis as a Multi-Dimensional Systemic Crisis of the EU (CUP, 2019) and Capitalist States and Marxist State Theory (Palgrave, 2023). She is the co-director of the Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context, as part of which she founded the ‘capital and power’ research stream and co-founded the ‘Law and Marxism’ series. She is also a member of the editorial collective @legalform, a forum for Marxist analysis and critique, and sat as juror on the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Unilateral Coercive Measures. In early 2024, she was an IASH-SSPS Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and from April 2024, she will hold a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on her new book, A Decolonial Legal History of Sanctions.

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