JOELLE GROGAN

Dr Joelle Grogan is a legal academic, and an expert in the rule of law and crisis governance, working in the fields of EU law, UK public law, and constitutional law.

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Joelle is currently a Senior Researcher, and head of the research at UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE), an independent think tank based at King's College London. UKICE provides independent and impartial social science research on the broad themes of the UK post-Brexit and UK-EU relations. The work includes analysis across a range of fields including politics and policy, economics, law, governance and the constitution, and the UK in the world.

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Joelle is also Academic Co-Director of the Rule of Law Clinic and a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the UCD Sutherland School of Law, and creator of Sticky Tricky Law.

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An expert on emergency law and pandemic governance, she served as advisor to the European Economic and Social Committee on the rule of law during a public health emergency (2021-2022); and is a commissioner for the Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers (2022-2023). Joelle also authored Impact of COVID-19 measures on democracy and fundamental rights (2022), a study commissioned by the European Parliament.

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Joelle has an undergraduate degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin where she was elected a Scholar of the University. She graduated with Distinction from the BCL at Oxford University, and also holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University.