Yvonne Scannell

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,

References
  1. http://www.tcd.ie/Law/yvonnescannell/index.php
  2. http://www.arthurcox.com/dr-yvonne-scannell/
  3. http://www.legalperiodicals.org/disp.php?pub=Irish+Planning+and+Environmental+Law+Journal&yr=2011
  4. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lawyers-consider-case-from-all-sides-but-fail-to-reach-unanimous-verdict-311983.html
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