Sanja Bogojevic
Professor of Law
Faculty officer role(s):
Associate Dean for Research (shared)
Director of the Course in Legal Research Methods (CLRM)
Biography
Sanja Bogojević is Fellow and Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law. Prior to joining Oxford Law Faculty, Bogojević was Associate Professor (‘Docent’) of Environmental Law at Lund University, to which she remains affiliated through various research projects.
A major strand of Bogojević's scholarship focuses on the interconnections between law, environmental problems and markets. Her book on carbon markets, Emissions Trading Schemes: Market, States and Law (Hart/Bloomsbury 2013), was awarded the 2016 Nils Klim Prize for its 'outstanding contribution to the study of law'. Her research interests, however, are broad and cover critical raw materials, carbon removals, environmental rights, public procurement, populism and the rule of law, access to courts, greenwashing, and planning law. She has also written widely on EU law, including Great Debates in EU Law (Blomsbury 2021, with Adams-Prassl), as well as Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond (co-ed, Hart 2018; paperback 2020), The Internal Market Ideal: Essays in Honour of Stephen Weatherill (co-ed, OUP in 2024), and Emergency and EU Law: The Case of Covid, Climate Change and Migration (with Xavier Groussot, Hart 2026).
Bogojević is currently involved in several large-scale research projects, including co-leading legal investigations as part of the UK's national research hub on greenhouse gas removal technologies (funded by UKRI); and leading a working group on critical raw materials.
Sanja is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law, and a member of the Avosetta group of EU environmental law experts. She sits on the international advisory board of the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute and was previously a Board Member of Climate Strategies.
She acts as the Faculty Director of the Course on Research Legal Methods, and the Associate Dean for Research (with Jeremias Adams-Prassl).
Publications
Bogojević S, ‘Regulating Greenwashing: Where Market Rules Meet Climate Action’ (2025) 37(2) Journal of Environmental Law 169
Hardenberger A, Groussot X and Bogojević S, ‘Auroramålet och vikten av att ta processuella rättigheter på allvar’ [2025] Svensk Juristtidning
Bogojević S, ‘The European Green Deal, the rush for critical raw materials, and colonialism’ (2024) 15 Transnational Legal Theory 600
Bogojević S, ‘The Critical Raw Materials Act: The Creation of New Markets, Governance and Disputes’ (2024) 197 EU Law Live 1
Arabadjieva K and Bogojević S, ‘The European Green Deal: climate action, social impacts and just transition safeguards’ (2024) 43 Yearbook of European Law 34
Bogojević S, ‘Footnotes as Scholarly Crafting’ (2024) 36(1) Journal of Environmental Law 1
Bogojević S, ‘Carbon removals, ecosystems and the European Green Deal’ (2024) 3(1) European Law Open 199
Bogojević S, ‘Squaring the circle? Regional airport expansion, climate change and the planning regime’ (2024) 87(4) Modern Law Review 967
Bogojević S, ‘Legal Dilemmas of Climate Action’ (2023) 35(1) Journal of Environmental Law 1
Strubelj L and others, ‘The new EU carbon removal certification: Landmark legislation or an empty promise?’ (2023) 6(9) ONE EARTH 1093
Bogojević S and Zou M, ‘Making Infrastructure ‘Visible’ in Environmental Law: The Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change Friction’ (2021) 10(1) Transnational Environmental Law 35
Bell J, Bogojevic S and Hamlyn O, ‘Friends of the Earth & Legal Interdisciplinarity: Introduction by the Analysis Editors’ (2021) 33(2) JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 437
Bogojević S, ‘COVID-19, Climate Change Action and the Road to Green Recovery’ (2020) 32(3) Journal of Environmental Law 355
BOGOJEVIC S, ‘Human rights of minors and future generations: Global trends and EU environmental law particularities’ (2020) 29 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 191
Bogojevic S, ‘The Erosion of the Rule of Law: How Populism Threatens Environmental Protection’ (2019) 31(3) Journal of Environmental Law 389
BOGOJEVIC S and Drenovak-Ivanovic M, ‘Environmental Protection through the Prism of Enlargement: Time for Reflection’ (2019) 56 Common Market Law Review 949
Bogojevic S, ‘Judicial Dialogue Unpacked: Twenty Years of Preliminary References on Environmental Matters Initiated by the Swedish Judiciary’ (2017) 29(2) JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 263
Bogojević S and Petit N, ‘Deterring the State versus the Firm: Soft and Hard Deterrence Regimes in EU Law’ (2016) 23 Columbia Journal of European Law 55
Bogojević S, ‘Judicial Protection of Individual Applicants Revisited: Access to Justice through the Prism of Judicial Subsidiarity’ (2015) 34(1) Yearbook of European Law 5
Driesen D and Bogojević S, ‘Economic Thought and Climate Disruption: Neoclassical and Economic Dynamic Approaches in the USA and the EU’ (2013) 25(3) Journal of Environmental Law 463
Bogojević S, ‘EU Climate Change Litigation, the Role of the European Courts, and the Importance of Legal Culture’ (2013) 35(3) Law & Policy 184
Bogojevic S, ‘CJEU, can you hear me? Access to justice in environmental matters’ (2013) 16(3) Europarättslig Tidskrift 728
Bogojevic S, ‘Litigating the NAP: Legal Challenges for the Emissions Trading Scheme of the European Union’ (2010) 3 Carbon and Climate Law Review 217
Bogojevic S, ‘The Revised EU ETS Directive: Yet Another Stepping Stone’ (2009) 11 Environmental Law Review 279
Bogojević S, ‘Ending the Honeymoon: Deconstructing Emissions Trading Discourses’ (2009) 21(3) Journal of Environmental Law 443
Bogojević S and Consiglio A, ‘Introduction: Emergencies and Constitutional Dilemmas in EU Law’ in S Bogojević and X Groussot (eds.), Emergencies and EU Law: Case of Covid-19, Climate Change and Migration (Hart 2026)
Bogojevic S and Groussot X, ‘Illiberal Democracy and Rule by Law from an EU perspective’ in J Raitio (ed.), The Rule of Law and the European Union (Bloomsbury 2023)
Bogojević S, ‘Balancing Institutional Powers in Negotiating Directives and EU External Environmental Relations: Commission v Council (Australia ETS)’ in G Butler and R Wessel (eds.), EU External Relations Law: The Cases in Context (Hart Publishing 2022)
Bogojević S, ‘Miljörättslig undervisning: vikten av intradisciplinär utlärning’ in M Forsberg, A Nilsson and Z Charlotta (eds.), Vänbok till Jan Darpö (Justus 2022)
Bogojevic S, ‘Trading Schemes’ in E Lees and J E. Viñuales (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2019)
Bogojevic S, ‘Miljörätten och offentlig upphandling: vikten av intra-disciplinär miljörättsforskning’ in J Darpö and others (eds.), Miljörätten och den förhandlingsovilliga naturen: Vänbok till Gabriel Michanek (Iustus förlag 2019)
Bogojević S, ‘Mapping Public Procurement and Environmental Law Intersections in Discretionary Space’, Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law (2019)
Bogojević S, Groussot X and Hettne J, ‘The ‘Age of Discretion’: Understanding the Scope and Limits of Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law’, Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law (2019)
Bogojević S, Groussot X and Hettne J, ‘Looking Ahead: A ‘New Age’ of Proportionality?’, Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law (2019)
Bogojevic S and Rayfuse R, ‘Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond: Setting the Scene’ in S Bogojević and R Rayfuse (eds.), Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond (Hart Publishing 2018)
Bogojevic S, ‘Environmental (Property) Rights in Market-Based Management’ in S Bogojević and R Rayfuse (eds.), Environmental Rights Revolution in Europe and Beyond (Hart Publishing 2018)
Bogojevic S, ‘EU Human Rights Law and Environmental Protection: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship?’ in S Douglas-Scott and N Hatzis (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)
Bogojevic S, ‘Climate Change Law and Policy in the European Union’ in C Carlarne, K Gray and R Tarasofsky (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law (Oxford University Press 2016)
Bogojević S, ‘Global imbalances in climate protection, leadership ambitions and EU climate change law’, The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015)
Bogojević S, ‘EU climate change litigation: All quiet on the Luxembourgian front?’, Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law (2015)
Groussot X and Bogojevic S, ‘Subsidiarity as a Procedural Safeguard to Federalism’ in L Azoulai (ed.), The Question of Competence in the European Union (Oxford University Press 2014)
Bogojevic S, ‘Europeanization of the Judiciary in Southeast Europe’ in S Rodin and T Perisin (eds.), Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe (Springer 2014)
Bogojevic S, ‘EU:s handel med utsläppsrättigheter och de globala obalanserna i klimatskyddet’ in A Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, L Oxelheim and T Persson (eds.), Europaperspektiv: EU och de globala obalanserna (Santérus förlag 2014)
Bogojević S, ‘Global gazing’, Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012)
Bogojević S and Groussot X (eds.), Emergencies and EU Law: Case of Covid-19, Climate Change and Migration (Hart Publishing 2026)
Adams-Prassl J and others (eds.), The Internal Market Ideal: Essays in Honour of Stephen Weatherill (OUP 2024)
Bogojević S, Groussot X and Hettne J (eds.), Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law (Hart Publishing 2019)
Bogojević S and Rayfuse R (eds.), Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond (Hart Publishing 2018)
Bogojevic S, ‘The race for lithium and the rule of law’ (UCL Climate Change and the Rule of Law Blog, 1 March 2022)
Bogojevic S, ‘Creating Property Rights. Law and Regulation of Secondary Trading in the European Union’ (2014) 51(6) COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW 1866 (review)
Bogojević S, ‘Review: D Farber and A O’Connell (eds.) Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law’ (2011) 2(1) Climate Law 135 (review)
Bogojevic S, ‘Sweden – The Preem case’ (2020) 1 Diritto Processuale Amministrativo 1085 (case-note)
Bogojevic S, Groussot X and Medzmariashvili M, ‘Adequate Legal Protection and Good Administration in EU Asylum Procedures: <i>HN</i> and Beyond’ (2015) 52(6) COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW 1635 (case-note)
Bogojevic S, ‘Legalising Environmental Leadership: A Comment on the CJEU’S Ruling in C-366/10 on the Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme’ (2012) 24(2) JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 345 (case-note)