Iyiola Solanke is a senior Lecturer at Leeds University Law School, where she teaches European Union Law, Discrimination Law and Competition Law. She completed her doctorate at the LSE Law Department, where she was also appointed a Teaching Fellow. More recently, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School and a visiting professor at Wake Forest University Law School. Her research focuses on European institutions and governance, in particular the European Court of Justice and Discrimination Law. She recently received a British Academy Research Grant for an empirical project on the Advocate General in the European Court of Justice, and last year published 'Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law' (2009, Routledge). Her articles have appeared in the Modern Law Review and the Columbia Journal of European Law. She is currently writing a textbook on EU law (Pearson 2012) and organising an international research collaboration on racism, colonialism and law under the auspices of the Law and Society Association.

Research interests

EU Governance; The EU court system; Judicial power and politics; Legal Institutions and Diversity; Multiple Discrimination; Comparative Anti-racial Discrimination law; EU Anti-discrimination Law; Cause Lawyering; Empirical Socio-Legal Research Methods.

Selected Publications

Books

Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law: a comparative history of social action and anti-racial discrimination law (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009).

Journal Articles

‘Putting Race And Gender Together: A New Approach To Intersectionality’ (2009) 72 Modern Law Review, 5, 723.
'Independence and Diversity in the European Court of Justice' in Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol 15. 1, 2009
'Stigma: an alternative limiting principle in anti-discrimination law?' in Schiek and Chege European Union Non-Discrimination Law: Comparative Perspectives on Multi-Dimensional Equality Law, 2008

Teaching

EU420 European Union Law and Government

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