禁漫天堂

Dr Leonelli’s current research projects lie at the intersection of trade and climate change law, with a particular focus on the path towards net-zero and new forms of environmental unilateralism and plurilateralism. Her latest publications provide a conceptually informed insight into anti-deforestation standards, carbon border measures, climate clubs, and Environmental Chapters in Preferential Trade Agreements. Her second monograph engages in an innovative and cross-disciplinary analysis of trade-related measures that are designed to promote the uptake of more ambitious environmental standards by third countries and market actors involved in transnational supply chains. It is forthcoming in 2026.

Dr Leonelli’s research has also uncovered the environmental pitfalls of inward-looking national security-centred approaches, illustrating how attempts to de-risk and reshore supply chains in key net-zero sectors are disrupting national and transnational decarbonisation efforts.

In the past years, she has published extensively on US and EU risk regulation, governance of biotechnologies, chemicals and pesticides, and access to justice in environmental and public health matters.

Transnational narratives and regulation of GMO risks (Hart Publishing, 2021)

This book provides an innovative insight into the regulatory conundrum of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), deploying transnational legal analysis as a methodological framework to explore the most controversial area of risk governance. The book deconstructs hegemonic and counter-hegemonic transnational narratives on the governance of GMO risks, cutting across US law, EU law, the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and hybrid standard-setting regimes. Should uncertain risks be run unless adverse effects have been conclusively established, and should regulators only act where this is cost-benefit effective? Should risk managers make a convincing case that a product or process is safe enough for the relevant uncertain risks to be socially acceptable? How can intractable transnational regulatory conflicts be solved?

• 'Critical raw materials, the net-zero transition and the 'securitisation' of the trade and climate change nexus: Pinpointing environmental risks and charting a new path for transnational decarbonisation' (2024) World Trade Review;
•  (2024) Journal of International Economic Law 27 (3) 441–461 (with Francesco Clora)
• 'A fresh look at the Aim-and-Effects debate: EU – Palm Oil and the centrality of the Chapeau of Article XX GATT' (2023) Trade, Law and Development
•   (2023) Journal of World Trade 57 (5) 709–730
•  (2023) Journal of International Economic Law
•  (2023) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
• (2023) Transnational Environmental Law 12 (1) 200-224
• (2022) Journal of World Trade 46 (6) 963-984
• (2022) German Law Journal 23 (5) 769-799
• (2022) World Trade Review 21 (5) 619-632
•  (2022) Legal Studies 42 (4) 696-714  
• (2021) Yearbook of European Law 40, 230-264
•  (2021) Common Market Law Review 58 (6),1845-1874
• (2021) Journal of Environmental Law 33 (3) 611-637
• (2021) German Law Journal 22 (2) 184-215
• (2020) Common Market Law Review 57 (6) 1773-1818
• (2020) Legal Issues of Economic Integration 47 (1) 43-70
• (2020) European Law Review 45 (3) 324-347
•  (2019) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 26 (4) 505-523
• (2018) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 25 (5) 582-606
• (2018)Common Market Law Review 55 (4) 1217-1250
• Transnational Legal Theory 9 (3-4) 302-315

• in Zumbansen, P. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford University Press, 2021) 
• 'The perfect storm: GMO governance and The EU technocratic turn' in Eliantonio, M. and Peeters, M. (eds.) (Edward Elgar, 2020)
• 'GMO risks, food security, climate change and the entrenchment of Neo-Liberal legal narratives' in Webster, E. and Gupta, A. and Ambros, R. (eds.) (Routledge, 2020)

Elsevier Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Work, year 2018

Member, UK Government CBAM Joint Working Group

Associate Fellow, 禁漫天堂 Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Member, Trade and Public Policy (TaPP) Network (Environment, Food and Agriculture, Health and Impact Assessment policy areas)

Member, Society of Legal Scholars

Fellow, Advance HE

(2025) Submission of evidence to the Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero, Consultation: UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Free Allocation Review, Carbon Leakage (2025) Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero; HM Treasury, not publicly available

(2024) Submission to the House of Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, Net Zero and Trade Inquiry. House of Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 

(2024) Consultation: introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism from January 2027 (Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero; HM Treasury). Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero; HM Treasury

(2024) Submission to the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee, Industrial Policy Inquiry. House of Commons Business and Trade Committee

(2023) Submission of Supplementary Evidence to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee, CPTPP Accession Inquiry. House of Lords International Agreements Committee

(2023) Oral evidence session, House of Lords International Agreements Committee, CPTPP Accession Inquiry. You can watch the video of the oral evidence session .

(2023) Submission to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee, CPTPP Accession Inquiry. House of Lords International Agreements Committee

(2023) Consultation: addressing carbon leakage risk to support decarbonisation (Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero; HM Treasury). Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero; HM Treasury

(2023) Submission to the House of Commons International Trade Committee, CPTPP Accession Inquiry. House of Commons International Trade Committee

(2022)  Social Science Research Network

(2022) . SSRN: Elsevier.

(2022)  International Economic Law and Policy Blog

(2022) Submission to the House of Commons International Trade Committee, Trade and the Environment Inquiry. London, UK: House of Commons International Trade Committee

(2022) Submission to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee, UK – Australia Trade Negotiations. London, UK: House of Lords International Agreements Committee

LL232 European Union Law

LL4A6 Climate Change and International Law

LL4AT Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement