Dr Timothy Jacob-Owens

Timothy Jacob-Owens is an Early Career Fellow in Citizenship Law and Policy and the Programme Director for the LLM in European Law. He teaches public law, EU law, and specialised courses on citizenship law.

Tim’s research interests lie broadly in citizenship, migration, and human rights. His current work focuses on: (1) language rights and immigration in Europe, (2) citizenship and colonialism in the British Empire and Commonwealth, and (3) the regulation of transnational mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. He sits on the steering committee of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and in 2023-24 was an Affiliate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. 

Tim is a graduate of the University of Bristol (BA, MPhil) and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (LLM, PhD). During his doctoral studies, he was Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Legal Studies, held visiting positions at Edinburgh, King’s College London, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, and taught at the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance.

Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School in 2022, Tim was a Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory (EUI), where he remains affiliated as a Senior Research Associate and Regional Coordinator for the Anglophone Caribbean. He previously worked at the European Centre for Minority Issues and the Council of Europe.

Twitter: @TJacobOwens