ProfessorSuzanne Kingston

Professor Kingston is a Judge in the General Court of the European Union. She has lectured at UCD since 2007, and has published widely in the field of European law and governance, especially in the environmental, competition and economic, and human rights fields. Prior to her appointment as a judge, she was a Senior Counsel practising at the Irish bar and regularly appeared before the Irish and European courts.

Professor Kingston is a graduate of Oxford University (BA in Law) and the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (LL.M. in European Community Law, Ph.D.). She served as a référendaire (legal adviser) in the cabinet of Advocate General Geelhoed at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg from 2004-2006. Prior to this, she practised EU law at the Brussels office of the US law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (2002-2004) and was a stagiaire at the European Commission (DG Competition)(2001-2002).She has held a variety of visiting positions, most recently as international visiting professor of law and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, New York. She has previously held visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of Leiden, Queen's University, Belfast, and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. In 2015, she was awarded a major research grant by the EU's European Research Council, investigating how the design of EU nature governance laws affects their effectiveness (http://effectivenaturelaws.ucd.ie). In 2017, she was honoured by Enterprise Ireland as one of Ireland's "Champions of EU Research", for achieving the highest-ranking Irish ERC grant across all disciplines in her category. She is Vice-President of the Irish Centre for European Law, and an editorial board member of the Irish Jurist.