European Union Law

Research topics

• The European internal market and the four freedoms, in particular:

• The free movement of goods, the Distance Selling Directive, online pharmacies;
• The free movement of persons, asylum, immigration, citizenship, EU fundamental rights, visa policy, external borders, Schengen;
• Free movement issues as they apply, or might apply, in “Cyberspace”;
• Discrimination on grounds of nationality, transnational solidarity, equality of member states, protection of minority languages.

• EU constitutional and institutional law, in particular:

• The work of the European Court of Justice, and specifically admissibility/ locus standi issues;
• The history and development of EU law;
• EU equality law;
• EU critical theory;
• Constitutional norms of the EU;
• EU law-making and legislative procedure;
• Implementation/ misimplementation of EU law at national level;
• The impact of UK law on EU law.

• European criminal law, and in particular judicial protection within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.