Sabine Mair is Assistant Professor of European Union law at the University of Amsterdam and researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). Her current research focuses on socio-political and economic dimensions of EU law, combining doctrinal analysis with interdisciplinary methodological insights taken from the social sciences and humanities. Sabine’s main fields of expertise are EU constitutional law, EU environmental and energy law, and EU social law.

In 2023, Sabine was awarded a Grant from the Research Strategic Investment Fund of UvA Law School for a research project about questions of distributive justice in EU environmental, energy, and agricultural law. Sabine also forms part of an international research network exploring the role of law in the construction of a European society as well as participates in the Horizon Europe Red Spinel project investigating the relationship between EU law and growing polarisation in liberal democracy across the European Union.

Sabine is a trained lawyer and political scientist. She holds a Doctorate (Ph.D) in law from the European University Institute, a Master (LL.M) degree in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges), as well as a bachelor and master degree in political science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Sabine has, furthermore, been a visiting researcher at Princeton University. Prior to joining UvA Law School, Sabine completed a Marie Curie fellowship at iCourts at the University of Copenhagen and worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union as référendaire.