Jo Shaw

Jo Shaw
Born	Josephine Shaw
Nationality	British
Academic background
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge and Université libre de Bruxelles
Academic work
Discipline	European Union legal scholar
Sub-discipline	Citizenship and constitutionalism
Institutions	University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Leeds, Keele University, University of Exeter
Website	http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/joshaw

Jo Shaw FRSE holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, one of the established chairs at the University of Edinburgh, and was director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 2014-17. Between 2009 and 2014 she was dean of research of the College of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on citizenship in the broader European context. She is the author of a widely used textbook on European Union law.

After receiving a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award to study citizenship in the former Yugoslavia (CITSEE), she was nominated for inclusion on the web site AcademiaNet, which profiles world-leading women academics.

Before moving to Edinburgh she was professor of European law at the University of Manchester.

Professor Shaw is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2015 the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, conferred the Chancellor's Award for Research on Professor Shaw in recognition of her outstanding contributions to research. Since 2001 she has been a senior research fellow at The Federal Trust. She is co-director of the GlobalCIT Observatory at the European University Institute. She was chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) between 2003 and 2006.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Shaw, Jo (2020). The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times. Bristol University Press. ISBN 978-1529210422.
• Shaw, Jo (2007). The transformation of citizenship in the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521677943.
• Shaw, Jo; Hunt, Jo; Wallace, Chloe (2007). Economic and social law of the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9780333637586.
• Shaw, Jo (2000). Law of the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9780333924914.
• Shaw, Jo (1994). Contract Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198762941.

External links

Media related to Jo Shaw at Wikimedia Commons

• Profile page: Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh