Professor Anthony Arnull KC (Hon) | |
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Academic background | |
Education |
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Thesis | The impact on the individual of the general principles of the law of the European Economic Community (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Dashwood[1] |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Birmingham |
Website | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/arnull-anthony.aspx |
Anthony "Tony" Arnull KC (Hon) is a British legal scholar specialising in EU law and holds the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham's Law School.
Early life and education
Arnull studied a BA in Law at the University of Sussex and at the Institut d'études européennes , Université libre de Bruxelles. He later qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales within a Magic Circle law firm.[2] He then received a PhD from the University of Leicester.[2]
Career and research
1990
Arnull wrote The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual in 1990, assessing the impact of the European Court of Justice. In a review, Lewis outlined:
"It must also be said that the discussion is certainly thorough and scholarly and Arnull makes thought-provoking observations on the case law."
2003
Arnull provided a memorandum to the UK's House of Lords after being asked to comment on the new roles the European Court of Justice would play in the Treaty of Nice[4]
2010
Arnull contributed to Channel 4's FactCheck on the Lord Pearson's claim: "Most of our national law is now made in Brussels" on Sky (6 April 2010)[5]
2017
In 2017, Arnull published European Union law: a very short introduction, a book aimed at the general public to introduce the laws of the European Union, within the popular a very short introduction book series from Oxford University Press.[6][7]
Editor
Arnull is a consultant editor on the European Law Journal[8]
Honours
In 2024, Arnull was made an honorary King's Counsel, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on European Union Law, which, the Ministry of Justice noted, "is widely respected and has had a significant impact on legislation and case law."[9]
Publications
Books
- European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction (2017)[10]
- The European Union and its Court of Justice (2006)[11]
- The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (1990).
- The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (2015).[12]
References
- ^ British Library (1987). The impact on the individual of the general principles of the law of the European Economic Community (Ph.D. thesis). University of Leicester.
- ^ a b "Professor Anthony Arnull". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Lewis, Clive (1990). "The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual. By Anthony Arnull. [London and Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1990. x, 282 (List of cases) 7, (Select Bibliography) 7 and (Index) 4 pp. Hardback £45.00 net]". The Cambridge Law Journal. 49 (3): 527–528. doi:10.1017/S0008197300122408. ISSN 0008-1973.
- ^ "House of Lords - European Union - Memoranda". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Newman, Cathy (15 April 2010). "Is most of the UK's law made in Brussels?". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Arnull, Anthony (2017). "European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction". doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198749981.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-874998-1. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ "European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ University of Birmingham (2021). "Tony Arnull". University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020.
- ^ "New King's Counsel and Honorary King's Counsel welcomed by Lord Chancellor".
- ^ Arnull, Anthony (2017). European Union law : a very short introduction (1st ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-874998-1. OCLC 967869382.
- ^ Arnull, Anthony. (2006). The European Union and its Court of Justice (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925884-8. OCLC 65407133.
- ^ Chalmers, Damian; Arnull, Anthony, eds. (23 July 2015). The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672646.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-175143-1.