Professor Jo Shaw

Fellowship of IASH
Professor Jo Shaw

Jo Shaw has held the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at Edinburgh Law School since 2005. Her research specialisms are citizenship and constitutionalism in a European and - sometimes - a comparative perspective. She was Dean of Research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from 2009-2013, Director of IASH from 2014-2017 and Head of Edinburgh Law School from 2021-2026. She is General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2025-2029).