Andrew joined Loughborough University in October 2025 as a Lecturer in Law. His research focuses on Marxist and critical political economy approaches to the European Union, with a particular emphasis on climate and environmental law.
Before joining Loughborough, Andrew was a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He has also held a number of visiting positions at international institutions, including as a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan (2019), a Visiting Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (2023), and he will undertake a Vibeke Sørensen Fellowship at the European University Institute in 2026.
Andrew’s research examines the interplay between law, capitalism, and political power within the European Union, with a particular focus on environmental and climate law. He is recognised as a leading voice in the emerging field of Marxist approaches to EU law. In 2025, he co-edited a symposium on Marxist Approaches to EU Law for European Law Open, contributing a foundational article (co-authored with Dr Robert Knox and Dr Eva Nanopoulos) that sets out a foundational framework for the development of Marxist approaches. He has also contributed an article on Pashukanis’ commodity form theory of law to Dr Ivana Isailovic’s special issue on “Critical Approaches to EU Law” in Transnational Legal Theory.
Grounded in Marxist legal theory and political economy, Andrew’s work explores how EU law structurally sustains capitalist social relations and manages ecological crises. His article in European Law Open offers a Marxist critique of the EU Emissions Trading System through theories of rent, while his Industrial Law Journal article shows how the EU’s early interventionist and socially embedded environmental policy gave way to a neoliberal model treating environmental protection as a tool for market efficiency.
His current research explores the relationship between the state and capital in electricity supply, particularly in the context of renewable energy transition. One strand critiques the EU’s “de-risking” approach to renewable investment; another examines the law and political economy of the UK’s post-war nationalisation of electricity.
Andrew has taught widely across EU law, public law, and climate law.
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Denaturalising the Neoliberal Turn: The Political Economy of Early EU Environmental Policy (1971–93)’ (2025) 54(2) Industrial Law Journal https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwaf016
- Robert Knox, Eva Nanopoulos and Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Introduction: symposium on Marxist approaches to EU Law’ (2025) 4 European Law Open 286–289
- Robert Knox, Eva Nanopoulos and Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach’ (2025) 4 European Law Open 290–327 https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2025.10018
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘The de-politicisation of decarbonisation through climate rent: a Marxist critique of the EU emissions trading system’ (2025) 4 European Law Open 369–386 https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2024.41
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Commodity-form theory of law, the climate crisis, and the European Union’ (2024) 15(4) Transnational Legal Theory 616–628 https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2024.2399989
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Book Review: The political economy of European constitutional imaginaries: Between ideology and utopia’ (2024) 49(3) European Law Review
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘Process review as panacea: A critique of process review advocacy in the European Union’ (2020) 45 European Law Review 373–395
- Andrew Woodhouse, ‘With great power, comes no responsibility? The “political exception” to duties of sincere cooperation for national parliaments’ (2017) 54 Common Market Law Review 443–474