Postgraduate supervision
Penelope welcomes PhD applications in any of these areas of interest.
Teaching
Competition Law, EU Law, Contract Law, Tort Law, Commercial Law, English Legal System and Skills, Law and Business, Dissertations.
Background
Penelope Giosa is a Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director of Student Experience at the University of Reading School of Law. She is also a Fellow with the George Washington Competition & Innovation Lab.
She previously worked as a Senior Lecturer in Law at Portsmouth Law School (2019-2024), as an Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia (UEA) (2017-2018), and as a Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (April 2016-January 2017). Before joining academia, she practised law in Greece and Cyprus (2012-2014).
Penelope has an educational and professional background in both Civil and Common Law Systems. She completed her undergraduate studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece (LLB, Ptychion). Her postgraduate qualifications include:
LLM in International Business Law (University College London, UCL)
LLM in International Commercial and Competition Law (University of East Anglia, UEA)
Her PhD studies in Competition and Public Procurement Law were fully funded by the University of East Anglia (UEA). She also holds a Diploma in Comparative Law (1st cycle) from the International Faculty of Comparative Law in Strasbourg and a Postgraduate Certificate in Management of Shipping Companies from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Penelope has advanced her research through visiting fellowships at several renowned institutions, including the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA, 2023), the University of Oxford’s Institute of European and Comparative Law (2022), and Georgetown Law School (Washington D.C., 2019). Her time at Georgetown was funded by the prestigious American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law International Scholar in Residence Program.
Dr. Giosa’s research focuses on the intersection of Public Procurement, Competition Law, and Economic Crime. She also has a keen interest in State Aid and the role of law in promoting sustainable agri-food systems and mitigating climate change.
She is an active member of the legal community, serving as the co-Convenor of the SLS (Society of Legal Scholars) Comparative Law Section and as Secretary of the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL). She is also the Oxford Brookes University's bilingual monitor for their LLB honours programme at Metropolitan College in Greece
