Participation in European Union Rulemaking A Rights-Based Approach

The aim of this series is to publish important and original research on EU law. The focus is on scholarly monographs, with a particular emphasis on those which are interdisciplinary in nature. Edited collections of essays will also be included where they are appropriate. The series is wide in scope and aims to cover studies of particular areas of substantive and institutional law, historical works, theoretical studies, and analyses of current debates, as well as questions of perennial interest such as the relationship between national and EU law and the novel forms of governance emerging in and beyond Europe. The fact that many of the works are interdisciplinary will make the series of interest to all those concerned with the governance and operation of the EU. Book jacket.

Joana Mendes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance (University of Amsterdam) and a lecturer at the Research Centre of Environmental and Urban Law Studies of the Law School of the University of Coimbra (CEDOUA). She obtained her doctoral degree in Law in 2009 at the European University Institute (Florence) where she was awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize 2010 for the best doctoral thesis using a methodology of comparative law. She gained her master degree in Public Law in 2002 at the University of Coimbra. She has publications in different fields of public law, including EU administrative law, environmental law, and public administration.