Professor Kenneth Armstrong

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.