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

Armstrong

Professor in 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

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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). Kenneth obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree with honours in Public Law from the University of Glasgow in 1989, completed his Diploma in Legal Practice in 1990 before taking up postgraduate studies at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Master of Laws degree in 1991.

Professor Armstrong has written widely 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 supporting the EU’s Lisbon Strategy and its successor Europe2020 agenda. His work has attracted external funding from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. He has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and at the European University Institute, Florence. He is an elected member of UACES and is on the editorial board of the European Law Journal and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

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

  • ‘The Character of EU Law and Governance: From “Community Method” to New Modes of Governance’ (2011)  64 Current Legal Problems 1-36.
  • ‘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: