Staff Profile

Eva joined Newcastle in 2026. Prior to that she held positions at Queen Mary, University of London as well as Sidney Sussex College and King’s College, Cambridge. Her work draws on decolonial, feminist, and Marxist theory to develop historically informed and potentially transformative critiques of public law, broadly construed to include EU law, international law, and constitutional law. She is particularly interested in understanding the historical development, specificity and dynamics of capitalism and capitalist imperialism, as well as the role of law in these processes. In that context, she has been particularly concerned to develop a better understanding of some of the key binaries that structure our global social totality, such as the distinction between war and peace, the political and the economic, and the mind and body. She is author of The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law (Hart, 2020) and co-editor of The Crisis Behind the Euro-Crisis: The Euro-Crisis as a Multi-Dimensional Systemic Crisis of the EU (CUP, 2019) and Capitalist States and Marxist State Theory (Palgrave, 2023). She is also a member of the editorial collective @legalform, a forum for Marxist analysis and critique, and sat as juror on the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Unilateral Coercive Measures. She is currently working on a Cambridge Element A Critical Legal Anatomy of Economic Coercion and a larger book A Decolonial Legal History of Sanctions, which was supported by an IASH-SSPS Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

For 2026/27 Eva convenes and teaches Constitutional Law - LAW1220 (both lectures and seminars).