Eleanor Sharpston held the 2nd lecture in the Stockholm Environmental Law Lectures Series. The series was launched in 2018 with the purpose of organizing biannual outstanding lectures on environmental law by world leading scholars.  

Eleanor Sharpston QC served as an advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from 2006 to 2020. At the CJEU, she wrote numerous opinions with great impact on matters relating to environmental law. These include areas of general concern, such as access to justice issues, particularly for NGO, the Aarhus Convention and review procedures; and more specific matters, such as emissions, water policy, waste disposal, GMOs, dangerous substances and substances of very high concern, as well as the Habitats Directive and the Wild Birds Directive. 

Eleanor Sharpston has a particular interest in effective access to justice in order to enforce environmental protection legislation, and also in the possibility of amending the Rome Statute so as to include the ‘missing crime’ of ecocide. In 2014 Eleanor Sharpston was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University.