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Professor of European Law

LLB (Glas), LLM (Toronto), Ph.D (Glas), MA (Cantab)

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

Kenneth Armstrong was elected to the Professorship of European law in September 2013. He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and from September 2021 he is Vice-Master of the College. 

Before joining the Faculty, Kenneth was Professor of EU law at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also held positions at Keele University and the University of Manchester. He has held visiting positions at Edinburgh University, the European University Institute and at New York University School of Law.

He is Chair and syndicate member of the Academic Publishing Committee of Cambridge University Press. Until 2020 he was editor in chief of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.

Kenneth 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. His book Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and won the 2011 UACES Best Book Prize. His book Brexit Time: Leaving the EU - Why, How and When? was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. 

In 2020 he was appointed as an advisor to the Finance and Constitution Committee of the Scottish Parliament where his advice focusesd on the UK Internal Market.

Kenneth was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to analyse the dynamics of regulatory alignment and divergence after Brexit. The project runs from 2018-22.

Publications

 

Books

Brexit Time: Leaving the EU - Why, How and When? (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Articles

"Regulatory autonomy after EU membership: alignment, divergence and the discipline of law" (2020) 45(2) EL Rev 207-221

Citation:
(2020) 45(2) EL Rev 207-221
Published: Apr 2020

"After EU Membership: the United Kingdom in Transition" (2019) EJLS (Special Issue) 59-86

Citation:
(2019) EJLS (Special Issue) 59-86
DOI:
10.2924/EJLS.2019.003
Published: Oct 2019

"Regulatory Alignment and Divergence after Brexit" (2018) 25(8) Journal of European Public Policy 1099-1117

Citation:
(2018) 25(8) Journal of European Public Policy 1099-1117
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1467956
Published: Apr 2018

"After "Ever Closer Union": Negotiating Withdrawal, Secession, and Accession" (2014) 37 Fordham Int’l L.J. Online 119

Citation:
(2014) 37 Fordham Int’l L.J. Online 119
Published: Jun 2014

"An Independent Scotland in the European Union: Pathways, Pitfalls and Legal Perspectives" (2014) 3(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 181-95

Citation:
(2014) 3(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 181-95
Published: Jun 2014

"The New Governance of EU Fiscal Discipline" [2013] 38(5) ELRev 601-617

Citation:
[2013] 38(5) ELRev 601-617
Published: Oct 2013

"EU Social Policy and the Governance Architecture of Europe 2020" [2012] 18(3) Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 285-300

Citation:
[2012] 18(3) Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 285-300
Published: Aug 2012

"The Character of EU Law and Governance: From 'Community method' to New Modes of Governance" [2011] 64 Current Legal Problems 179-214

Citation:
[2011] 64 Current Legal Problems 179-214
Published: Sep 2011

Book Chapters

"(Br)exit from the European Union - Control, Autonomy and the Evolution of EU Law" in Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (ed(s)), The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 399-430

Pages:
399-430
ISBN 13:
9780192846556
Published Aug 2021

"The Transition" in Federico Fabbrini (ed(s)), The Law & Politics of Brexit - Vol II: The Withdrawal Agreement (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 171-190

"The Open Method of Coordination - Obstinate or Obsolete?" (with Robert Schutze and Takis Tridimas), Oxford Principles of European Union Law (Oxford University Press , 2018)

"Differentiated Economic Governance and the Reshaping of Dominium Law" (with Maurice Adams, Federico Fabbrini, Pierre Larouche), The Constitutionalization of European Budgetary Constraints (Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 63-83

Publisher:
Pages:
63-83
Co-Author/s:
Maurice Adams, Federico Fabbrini, Pierre Larouche
Published Apr 2014

"New Governance in the European Union: an Empirical and Conceptual Critique" (with Gráinne de Búrca, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott), Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance: Liber Amicorum David M. Trubek (Hart Publishing, 2013)

Publisher:
Co-Author/s:
Gráinne de Búrca, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott
Published Nov 2013

"The Lisbon Agenda and Europe 2020: from the Governance of Coordination to the Coordination of Governance" (with Paul Copeland and Dimitris Papadimitriou), The EU's Lisbon Strategy: Evaluating Success, Understanding Failure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 208-28

Publisher:
Pages:
208-28
Co-Author/s:
Paul Copeland and Dimitris Papadimitriou
Published Oct 2012