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Professor Kenneth Armstrong, LLB (Glas), LLM (Toronto), PhD (Glas)

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Professor of European Union Law

Location: Mile End
email: k.a.armstrong@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3939
Fax: +44 (0)207 882 7042

Follow Kenneth Armstrong on Twitter @ProfKAArmstrong

Kenneth Armstrong joined Queen Mary 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 research officer within the Department of Government, University of Manchester (1992-93). Professor Armstrong obtained his LLB and PhD 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 is currently on the editorial board of the European Law Journal and a 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 2013 he will be a Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, New York University.

Professor Armstrong has written extensively in the field of European Union law and policy, with a particular focus on the evolving governance structures of the EU. His research has explored the governance of the Single European Market and more recently the emerging governance architecture of the Europe2020 agenda as a successor to the EU’s Lisbon strategy. His work has attracted external funding from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. In 2013, and with support from the British Academy, he will be starting a new project on 'Reforming EU Economic Governance: A Crisis for Law or a Crisis of Law?'.

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.

Publications:

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Books

Key Articles and Essays

  • ‘EU Social Policy and the Governance Architecture of Europe 2020’, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, (2012) 18:3, 285-300
  • ‘The Character of EU Law and Governance: From “Community Method” to New Modes of Governance’ (2011)  64 Current Legal Problems 179-214.
  • ‘Governance and Constitutionalism After Lisbon’ (2008) 46 Journal of Common Market Studies 784.
  • (with C. Kilpatrick), ‘Law, Governance or New Governance? The Changing Open Method of Coordination’ (2007) 13 Columbia Journal of European Law 649.
  • 'The "Europeanisation" of Social Exclusion: British Adaptation to EU Co-ordination' (2006) 8 British Journal of Politics and International Relations 79
  • 'How Open is the United Kingdom to the OMC Process on Social Inclusion?' in J Zeitlin and P Pochet (eds), The Open Method of Co-ordination in Action: The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies (PIE Peter Laing Publishing, Brussels, 2005) 287
  • 'Tackling Social Exclusion Through OMC: Reshaping the Boundaries of European Governance' in T Borzel and R Cichowski (eds) The State of the European Union Vol 6 (OUP, Oxford, 2003) 170
  • 'Rediscovering Civil Society: The European Union and the White Paper on Governance' (2002) 8 European Law Journal 102
  • (with Simon Bulmer), The Governance of the Single European Market (Manchester UP, 1998).

Supervision:

Professor Armstrong welcomes applications for research degree supervision in all areas of EU law and UK public law.

Undergraduate teaching:

  • LAW4001 Public Law
  • LAW5105 Law of the European Union

Postgraduate teaching:

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