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The Europa Institute    
Staff associated with the Institute
 

 Staff and Students of the Europa Institute (June 2007)

             
Name   Post   School/Subject Group   Research keywords 
             
Chairman of the Europa Institute
Prof Sir David Edward     Emeritus Professor   Law    EU law and institutions, competition law, constitutional law, comparative procedural law
             

Co-Directors of the Europa Institute

Prof Drew Scott   Professor of European Union Studies   Law  

Governance; regions; Economic and Monetary Union; regional economic policy; Scotland and Europe; subsidiarity 

             
Dr Chad Damro       Senior Lecturer      SSPS/Politics & International Relations        EU in international politics; regulation and competition policy; trade policy; environmental policy
             

Academic staff and postdoctoral fellows 

             

Dr Mark Aspinwall 

  Senior Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

Regional integration; Britain and Europe; political economy 

             
Dr Elizabeth Bomberg    Senior Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

EU policymaking and politics; EU environmental politics and governance; sustainable development in the EU

             
Dr Christina Boswell    Senior Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

EU Immigration and Asylum Policy; the External Dimension of JHA; sociology of the European Commission; knowledge utilisation and legitimation in the Commission

             
Dr Caroline Bouchard    Teaching Fellow   SSPS/Politics & International Relations   The European Union and human security at the United Nations
             
Abbe Brown    Lecturer in IT Law    Law   

Interface of intellectual property, competition law and fundamental rights

             
Dr Caitríona Carter    Senior Lecturer in EU Politics   Law/Social Sciences  

Political sociology of institutions; comparative transformation of industry, UK-EU Fisheries; National/regional parliaments and EU scrutiny; Interaction global/EU and regional/local processes of change

             
Prof Jochen Clasen    Professor of Comparative Social Policy    SSPS/Social Policy    Welfare states in comparison; employment; social security 
             
Dr Rachael Craufurd Smith    Senior Lecturer in EC Law   Law   

Regulation of culture and the mass media;  fundamental rights

             
Dr Lynn Dobson    Senior Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

Political philosophy; value pluralism & political agreement; liberal perfectionism; justification, legitimacy & obligation; citizenship & democracy

             
Navraj Singh Ghaleigh    Lecturer in Public Law     Law    Constitutional law; party and campaign finance law; the law of climate change 
             
Dr Eve Hepburn    ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow     SSPS/Politics & International Relations   

Political mobilisation on European integration; EU regional and structural policy; 'Europe of the Regions' networks, discourse and party activism

             
Prof Chris Himsworth   Professor of Administrative Law     Law   Local and regional democracy in Europe; EC and comparative administrative law; environmental law 
             
Dr David Howarth    Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer   SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

Economic and Monetary Union; European Central Bank; political economy of European integration; France and European integration; political economy of France

             
Prof Charlie Jeffery    Professor of Politics; co-Director of the Institute of Governance   SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

Regions and multi-level governance in the EU; European constitutions; German EU policy

             
Gezim Krasniqi   Research Fellow, CITSEE Project   Law/Political Science   Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia
             
Dr Robert Lane    Senior Lecturer in EC Law    Law   

EC/EU constitutional law; judicial protection; internal market law; competition law; comparative federalism

             

Dr Cormac Mac Amlaigh

  Lecturer in Public Law   Law   Sovereignty and constitutionalism in European integration;  EU integration theory; postnational legal theory; European economic constitutional law; European public law
Dr Luke March   Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics            SSPS/Politics & International Relations   Russia, Moldova, Russia-EU relations and EU neighbourhood policy; Radical left parties in Europe; Populism in Europe
Prof Lesley McAra   Professor of Penology    Law    Transformations in criminal justice and penal systems in the context of multi-level governance; comparative youth justice 
             
Dr Elisa Morgera Lecturer in European Environmental Law Law       EU environmental law; environmental integration in EU policies; international and comparative environmental law
Dr Niamh Nic Shuibhne        Reader in EC Law   Law   Internal market law; free movement law, EU citizenship; EC law and language policy, EC law and fundamental rights, judicial protection in the EU, European Court of Justice
             
Dr Pontus Odmalm    Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations    Comparative politics, citizenship, immigration, civil society, political integration 
             
Dr Richard Parry    Reader in Social Policy   SSPS/Social Policy    Public sector, public expenditure, public employment, devolved and intermediate government 
             
Prof John Peterson    Professor of International Politics    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

EU politics and policy-making, US-EU relations, EU policy networks, American foreign policy 

             
Lisa Pilgram   Junior Research Fellow   Law   Comparative citizenship law
             
Ljubica Spaskovska   Research Fellow, CITSEE Project   Law/Political Science   Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia
             
Prof Lynn Staeheli    Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography    Geosciences/ Human Geography    Feminist, urban, and political geography; democracy and citizenship; public space; immigration 
             
Dr Igor Štiks   Postdoctoral Fellow, CITSEE Project    Law/Political Science   Citizenship in the Former Yugoslavia 
             
Dr Wilfried Swenden    Senior Lecturer    SSPS/Politics & International Relations  

Comparative federalism; multi-level governance 

             
Stephen Tierney    Professor of Constitutional Theory   Law    Comparative constitutional law; constitutional theory; European human rights law; law and national identity; law and multiculturalism 
             
Alan Trench   Research Fellow   Law     Institutional and policy-making aspects of territorial politics in the United Kingdom and comparatively
             
Prof Neil Walker   Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations   Law   EU Constitution; postnational legal theory; Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
             
             
Honorary Professors and Fellows
Prof Peter Cameron  

 

Honorary Fellow/Professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy   

  Law   International and European energy law
             
Prof Sir David Edward   Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Europa Institute    Law    EU law and institutions, competition law, constitutional law, comparative procedural law
             
Prof Sir Neil MacCormick   Emeritus Regius Professor
of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations
  Law   Sovereignty in Europe; EU constitutional theory
             
Richard McAllister    Honorary Fellow    SSPS/Politics & International Relations   CFSP; ESDP; enlargement; institutional evolution
             
Dr. Andy Smith    Honorary Fellow/Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France   Law/Politics & International Relations   EU trade and industry policies; political economy; territorial politics
             
Prof Alastair Sutton    Honorary Professor/Partner in White and Case, Brussels    Law     
             
             
Administrative staff    Post   School    Email contact
Shirley Fraser   Administrator (temporary)   SSPS/Politics & International Relations   shirley.fraser@ed.ac.uk  

 

 

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