Biography
Joyce is a transnational law scholar whose research critically examines the evolving relationship between non-state actors and human rights law. She explores how such actors are bound by human rights obligations yet also actively shape human rights law. With a focus on the EU, she investigates the legal frameworks through which human rights law is articulated, interpreted and contested in relation to EU entities. Her work covers border management, free trade, environmental and planetary governance, artificial intelligence, and platform regulation.
Drawing on theories of experimentalism and relationality, Joyce is developing a model of EU human rights governance that is more adaptive, responsive and participatory, and better suited to the complexities of contemporary transnational regulation.
She was an Emile Noël Fellow (2021–2022) and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law (2022–2024), where she also served as an Adjunct Professor of EU Law. Having completed her PhD at Ghent University on the EU’s human rights responsibility gap (Hart Publishing, 2024), she was awarded a three-year FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research on 'relational human rights responsibility' in environmental law, trade, AI, and platform governance.
She has taught courses on international law, EU law, and migration/asylum law at NYU, Ghent University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Leiden, the University of Minnesota, and the College of Europe.