Joana Mendes is Professor of European Public Law at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg, a position she has held since 2025. She holds a law degree and a master’s in public law from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and a doctorate from the European University Institute (Italy). Prior to her current role, she was Professor of Comparative and Administrative Law and Head of the Doctoral School at the University of Luxembourg. She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she also acted as PhD Dean. Her academic experience includes a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship at Yale Law School (2014) and a research stay at the London School of Economics (2025).
Joana Mendes is co-founder of European Law Open, sits on the editorial boards of the Revue de Droit Public and the German Law Journal, and served on the Council of the International Society of Public Law (2017–2022). Her publications include “Participation in EU Rulemaking” (OUP, 2011), an edited volume on “EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law” (OUP, 2019), and articles in the Modern Law Review, the Common Market Law Review, the International Journal of Constitutional Law and Transnational Legal Theory.