Members of the IEL

Director of the Institute:

Professor Martin Trybus

Professor Martin Trybus

Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean of Birmingham Law School

Birmingham Law School

The research of Martin Trybus aims to make a contribution to the understanding and development of the Law of the European Union, especially its economic and constitutional aspects, to establish ‘European Union Defence and Security Law’ as a separate legal subject, and to contribute to the understanding and development of European Union Public Procurement Law.

 

 

Members of the Institute:

Professor Anthony Arnull

Professor Anthony Arnull

Emeritus Professor of European Law

Birmingham Law School

Anthony Arnull specialises in the law of the European Union. He worked at the European Court of Justice from 1989-92 and was Head of Birmingham Law School between 2006 and 2009. He was Acting Head of the College of Arts & Law at Birmingham from April to August 2015. Professor Arnull is the author of The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (Leicester University Press, 1990); The ...

Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Sophie Boyron is a Associate Professor whose interest lies mainly in public law and European law. She adopts a comparative approach to all her work.

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

Birmingham Law School

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski’s research interests are in the field of environmental law and EU law, including certain aspects of public international law. Her research agenda is inter-disciplinary and explores the intersection of law and other disciplines, in particular politics, science, public policy and language. Aleksandra is the College of Arts and Law Director of Global ...

Professor Rilka Dragneva-Lewers

Professor Rilka Dragneva-Lewers

Professor of International Legal Studies
Associate Dean of Birmingham Law School

Birmingham Law School

Rilka Dragneva-Lewers is Professor of International Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. She works on regional integration, EU external policy, legal reform and international diffusion of norms with a special reference to Eastern Europe. Her recent publications focus on Eurasian economic integration and its overlaps with EU initiatives in the post-Soviet region. Rilka’s work has strong ...

Professor Evelyn Ellis

Professor Evelyn Ellis

Emeritus Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Evelyn Ellis began work at the University of Birmingham in 1972. She was Professor of Public Law between 1996 and 2008 and is now an Emeritus Professor at Birmingham Law School. Her main research interests lie in the field of anti-discrimination law, in particular the EU aspects. She has written a number of books which include: Sex Discrimination Law (Gower, 1988), European Community Sex Equality ...

Dr Julian Lonbay

Dr Julian Lonbay

Honorary Professor

Birmingham Law School

Julian researches and advises on the law relating to legal education, lawyers and other professionals; and cross-border practice and the rules affecting such practice. Julian is the UK representative on the Training Committee of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) (since 2001), which he chaired from 2003-2010. He is a member of the External Relation Council of the ...

Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow

Birmingham Law School

Professor McAuliffe’s principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order.  By clarifying the ways in which language plays a key role in determining judicial outcomes at the EU level, she challenges EU scholarship to look beyond more conventional approaches to the development of a rule of law that draw on law alone.  ...

Dr Marianne Wade

Dr Marianne Wade

Reader in Criminal Justice

Birmingham Law School

Dr Wade’s activities focus on cross-border criminal justice co-operation and particularly related developments within the EU. Work focusing on the crimes of terrorism and trafficking human beings and their prevention, investigation and prosecution at a national, regional and global level forms part of this. The genesis of a European public prosecutor’s office and the concept of ...