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Prof Yvonne Scannell

+353 1 920 1134 yvonne.scannell@arthurcox.com

Work Department

Environment and Planning

Position

Yvonne has been consistently rated as one of the top environmental lawyers in Ireland and has been internationally recognised as an environmental and planning expert.

Yvonne has extensive practical experience in natural resources, planning and environmental matters. Until recently, Yvonne Scannell was a Professor in the Law School, Trinity College Dublin where she specialised in Irish and European Environmental Law and Policy. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency. She was a founder member and first chairperson of the Irish Association of Environmental Law. She is Vice-President of the European Nuclear Energy Authority and a former member of the European Council for Environmental Law. Professor Scannell is on the visiting faculties of Bocconi and Bayreuth Universities.

Education

• BA, PhD, LL.D(h.c), FTCD, Trinity College Dublin
• LL.M, Cambridge University
• D Washington and Lee University, Virginia, USA
• Admitted to the Irish Bar, 1972