The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Kenneth Armstrong, LLB (Glas), LLM (Toronto), Ph.D (Glas) has been elected to the Professorship of European Law. This Chair was established in 1994 and was held previously by Professor Alan Dashwood, CBE, QC.
Kenneth Armstrong joined Queen Mary, University of London in 1998 and in 2005 was promoted to Professor of European Union Law. Before joining Queen Mary, he was Lecturer in Law at Keele University (1993-97) and a researcher within the Department of Government, University of Manchester (1992-93). Professor Armstrong obtained his LLB and Ph.D degrees from the University of Glasgow and also holds an LLM from the University of Toronto. He was an elected member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies and a former member of the AHRC Peer Review College. He has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and at the European University Institute, Florence. In Spring 2013 he was a Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, New York University. He is on the editorial board of the European Law Journal.
Professor Armstrong has written extensively in the field of European Union law and policy, with a particular focus on the evolving governance and institutional structures of the EU. Professor Armstrong's book Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and won the 2011 UACES Best Book Prize. He is co-author (with Simon Bulmer) of The Governance of the Single European Market (Manchester UP). He is currently researching the European Union’s response to the economic crisis, and his article, 'The New Governance of Fiscal Discipline' will be published by the European Law Review later this year.