Biography
Joyce is a transnational law scholar working at the intersection of international, European Union, and human rights law. Her research examines how human rights are produced, interpreted, and contested across complex transnational governance settings, with particular attention to the evolving role of non-state actors and EU institutions. She investigates how these actors are both bound by and capable of progressively and regressively shaping the content, interpretation, and operation of human rights law.
Her work spans a range of regulatory domains, including borders, asylum and migration, EU free trade agreements, environmental and planetary governance, artificial intelligence, and data protection. Drawing on theories of experimentalist governance and relationality, she is developing an innovative approach to human rights governance and responsibility that is better attuned to the complexities of contemporary EU transnational regulation.
Joyce was an Emile Noël Fellow (2021–2022) and a Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law (2022–2024), where she also served as Adjunct Professor of EU Law. She holds a PhD (Ghent University) on the EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap (Hart Publishing, 2024), which formed the basis of her intervention in Hamoudi before the Grand Chamber of the CJEU. She is currently an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow and Max Weber Fellow. She has taught international, EU, and migration and asylum law at NYU, Ghent University, the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Minnesota University, and the College of Europe.