Dr Timothy Jacob-Owens

Timothy Jacob-Owens is an Early Career Fellow in Citizenship Law and Policy at Edinburgh Law School. He was previously a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and taught at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (EUI). He received his PhD from the EUI in 2022.

At Edinburgh, Tim’s core teaching focuses on transnational law, European Union law, and citizenship law. He has also taught public law and legal theory. He is the Programme Director for the LLM in European Law and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Tim’s research interests lie principally in the relationship between law and empire, with a geographic focus on Europe and the Caribbean and a substantive focus on citizenship and constitutionalism. He is a member of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, a Senior Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory, and a former Affiliate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.