Lucila de Almeida is the Abreu Chair of ESG Impact and Director of the NOVA Green Lab at NOVA School of Law. She is a Full Professor at the European University Institute under a part-time regime, co-director of the Regulatory Delivery Programme, and a member of the Coordination Committee at the Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. Her fields of research are energy, environmental, and climate law. She holds a PhD in European Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Law from the European University Institute, a Master in Law and Development from FGV São Paulo, and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
Before joining the faculty at she was an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands, 2020-2022), Edmond J. Safra Research fellow at the Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University (Israel, 2019-2020), a Postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of law, University of Helsinki (Finland, 2017-2019), a Research Associate at the Law Department of the European University Institute (Italy, 2013-2016), and a visiting scholar at the Dipartimento di scienze politiche, giuridiche e studi internazionali, Università Degli Studio di Padova (Italy, summer 2019), and Louvain Global College Law, UCLouvain (Belgium, summer 2018).
Lucila has worked on various projects as a researcher and consultant funded by prestigious organizations, among them the International Energy Agency (2019-2023), Berlin Economics (2020), the Academy of Finland (2017-2018), European Research Council (2013-2016), and Inter-American Development Bank (2011). Her work to date has resulted in numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. Her most recent edited books are ‘Sustainable Consumption: the right to a healthy environment’ (Springer 2020), ‘The Transformation of Economic Law’ (Hart Publishing 2019). Besides publications, she has been the managing editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies (EJLS) and assistant editor of two Oxford Journals (EJIL and I.CON).