Päivi Neuvonen researches and teaches in the areas of European law, equality law, and legal and political theory.

Her main research interests lie at the intersection of transnational law and political theory, with a particular focus on the role of individuals in European integration.

Her research project ‘European Law and the Politics of (Dis)Empowerment’ is funded by the Academy of Finland 2017 – 2020. She participates in the ‘Constructing Legal Orders in Europe: The General Principles of EU Law’ Jean Monnet project (University of Leicester) and is a collaborator in the ‘Transparency in the EU - From Reaction to Manifesto?’ Academy of Finland project (The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights).

She will be a CES visiting scholar 2019-2020 at Harvard University and has previously held postdoctoral positions as Law Lecturer at the University of Turku; Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Policy Research Centre on Equality Policies and the Institute for Constitutional Law at KU Leuven; and Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (as an IASH-SSPS Fellow), and the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation at the University of Leicester.

Teaching 2019/2020:

• OTM-302 Law and Society
• ON-J212A Public EU Law (workshop)

Teaching 2018/2019:  

• ON-300 Gender, Law, and Legal Practices  (course convenor)

• VON-O210 Legal Theory

• IBL-420 Foundations of EU Law

• ON-J212A Public EU Law (workshop)

DPhil in Law (Oxon), LLM in Public Law and Human Rights Law (UCL), Master of Laws Degree/OTM (University of Turku)