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.

Tim’s research and teaching interests lie in three main areas of inquiry: (1) citizenship and migration, (2) European law and empire, and (3) transnational law and legal theory. His work on these themes has appeared in Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Studies, Citizenship Studies, Migration Studies, and International Migration Review, among other leading journals.

Tim is a graduate of the University of Bristol (BA, MPhil) and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (LLM, PhD). Prior to joining Edinburgh full-time in 2022, he taught at the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance and worked as a Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), where he remains affiliated as a Senior Research Associate and Regional Coordinator for the Anglophone Caribbean.