Honora Josephine Yvonne Scannell | |
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Nationality | Irish |
Education | Cambridge University (master's degree) |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin (doctorate) |
Occupation | Professor of Environmental Law |
Employer(s) | Trinity College, Dublin Law School |
Known for | Campaigning against the proposed 2002 Irish Constitution amendment regarding abortion |
Notable work | Leading textbook in Ireland on Environmental Law |
Board member of | Tara Mines, Coillte, CIE |
Awards | Spirit of Columbus Award (1994) |
Honora Josephine Yvonne Scannell was Professor of Environmental Law in Trinity College, Dublin Law School, Ireland.[1] She received a master's degree from Cambridge University and a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin.
As well as lecturing, she works as a consultant in Environmental, Planning and Climate Change Law at the Arthur Cox law firm in Dublin, a post that she has held since April 1990.[1] She is also currently a director on the boards of Tara Mines, Coillte and CIE[1] She has written the leading textbook in Ireland on that subject. She is a qualified barrister in King's Inns. She received the Spirit of Columbus Award for her Contribution to the Environment in 1994 and was the Francis E Lewis scholar at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, in Virginia, USA in 1996.[2] She is widely published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including the Irish Planning and Environmental Journal.[3] She campaigned with her fellow professor Ivana Bacik against the proposed amendment to the Irish Constitution in 2002 which would have removed suicide as a grounds for abortion.[4]