Biography

Theodore Konstadinides is a Lecturer in European law at the School of Law. His research and teaching focuses on European constitutional law. He has previously taught at University College London and at the University of Uppsala in Sweden where he is a guest lecturer. Theodore is a visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London for the 2011-2012 academic year. He has written on a number of issues, including the delimitation of EU competence, judicial protection in EU law, aspects of EU security, and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. 

Research Interests

Theodore’s main area of interest coheres around European constitutional law. His research explores, in particular, the delineation of competence between the EU and the Member States and the impact of European integration on national constitutional systems. 

His research interests broadly include:

• EU constitutional law: for instance, constitutional pluralism, the legal principles that underpin EU law and the European context in which public law develops.
  
• EU security policy: especially, the shift of sovereign-sensitive policy areas from the periphery towards the centre of the EU constitutional framework (e.g. the fight against terrorism and serious crime, and defence cooperation - CSDP).
  
• Protection of fundamental rights in EU law: in particular, effective judicial protection, and the right to mobility through EU citizenship.

PhD Supervision

Theodore has supervised a large number of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in the area of EU constitutional and substantive law. He welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students in a variety of European law-related topics.

Publications

2012

Chapter in a Book

Konstadinides, T. ‘The Constitutional Rhetoric of the Protection of Personal Data and Individual Privacy’, in M. Bergström and A.J. Jonsson Cornell, European Police and Criminal Law Cooperation (Oxford, Hart Publishing, December 2012), Chapter 5. ISBN: 9781849463508

Konstadinides T. ‘Drawing the line between Circumvention and Gap-Filling: An exploration of the conceptual limits around the scope of Article 352 TFEU’ in Tridimas T. and Eeckhout P. (eds.) (2012) 31 Yearbook of European Law (December 2012). ISSN: 0263-326, Online ISSN: 2045-0044

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘Destroying democracy on the ground of defending it? The Data Retention Directive, the surveillance state and our constitutional ecosystem’ (2012) 1 European Current Law IX-XXI. ISSN: 0964-0037

2011

Edited Book

Eckes C. and Konstadinides T. (eds.) Crime within the Area of Freedom Security and Justice: A European Public Order (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011), 344p. ISBN: 9781107002159

Chapter in a Book

Konstadinides, T. ‘The Europeanisation of Extradition: How Many Light Years Away to Mutual Confidence?’ in C. Eckes and T. Konstadinides (eds.) Crime within the Area of Freedom Security and Justice: A European Public Order (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011). ISBN: 9781107002159

Konstadinides, T. ‘Constitutional Identity as a shield and as a sword: The European legal order within the framework of national constitutional settlement’, in C. Barnard and O. Odudu, (2010-2011) 13 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011), Chapter 9, pp.195-218. ISBN13: 9781849461993

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘Destroying democracy on the ground of defending it? The Data Retention Directive, the surveillance state and our constitutional ecosystem’ (2011) 36 (5) European Law Review 722-736. ISSN: 0307-5400

Book Review

M. Fichera, The Implementation of the European Arrest Warrant in the European Union: Law, Policy and Practice (Antwerp, Intersentia, 2011), (2011) 48 (4) Common Market Law Review 1363-1364. ISSN: 1213-4678

Working Paper / Other

Konstadinides, T. ‘EU Citizenship: Breaking loose from the constraints of nation-statist settings and free movement requirements?’ Euroscope Autumn 2011, pages 40-41, Sussex European Institute (available at www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/euroscope).

Konstadinides, T. ‘Civil Protection in Europe and the Lisbon ‘Solidarity Clause’: A Genuine Legal Concept or a Paper Exercise?’ 2011:3 Uppsala Faculty of Law Working Papers (available at www.jur.uu.se).

2010

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘La Fraternité Européenne? The Extent of National Competence to Condition the Acquisition and Loss of Nationality from the perspective of EU Citizenship’ (2010) 35 (3) European Law Review 401-414. ISSN 0307-5400

Konstadinides, T. ‘Wavering between Centres of Gravity: Comment on Ireland v Parliament and Council’ (2010) 35 (1) European Law Review 88-102. ISSN 0307-5400

2009

Authored Book

Konstadinides, T. Division of Powers in European Union Law: The Delimitation of Internal Competence between the EU and the Member States (The Hague, Kluwer Law International, European Monographs Series, 2009), 352 p. ISBN: 9888880044  

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘Citizenship within the Scope Ratione Materiae of Community Law: The Current Approach of the Court of Justice’ (2009) 4 European Current Law XI-XV. ISSN 0964-0037

Book Review

S. Currie, Migration, Work and Citizenship in the Enlarged European Union (London, Ashgate, 2008), (2009) 34 (4) European Law Review 665-667. ISSN 0307-5400

2008

Book Review

J.H. Jans, S. Preschal and R.J.G.M. Widdershoven, Europeanisation of Public Law (Groningen, Europa Law Publishing, 2007), (2008) 33 (3) European Law Review 444-446. ISSN 0307-5400

2007

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘The Perils of the Europeanisation of Extradition Procedures in the EU: Mutuality, Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Guarantees’ (2007) 14 (2) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 179-200. ISSN 1023-263X

2006

PhD Dissertation

Konstadinides, T. ‘Towards a Clearer Delimitation of Internal European Community Competences’ (University College London Library).

2004

Journal Article

Konstadinides, T. ‘Now and then: Fischer’s Core Europe in the Aftermath of the Collapse of December 2003 Constitutional Talks’ (2004) 11 (1) Irish Journal of European Law 117-140. ISSN: 0791-5403

Konstadinides, T. ‘The Element of Conditionality in the Pre-Accession Strategy of the East and Central East European Enlargement’, in the Common Law Society (eds.) The Common Law of Europe, 100-page issue commemorating the EU Enlargement (2004) Common Law Review 12-16. ISSN: 1213-4678

Teaching

Spring Semester 2012

Undergraduate modules

EU Law I (Level 1)

EU Law II (Level 2, convenor)

Postgraduate Modules

EU Counter-Terrorism Law (LLM, convenor)

Mobility and Citizenship in the EU (LLM, convenor)

Departmental Duties

Presentations since 2011

2012

09/06/2012, University of Surrey School of Law Workshop, ‘A Europe of Rights: the EU and the ECHR’, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Co-Organiser with the Surrey European Law Unit (SELU).

22/05/2012, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Invited Guest lecture: 'Till we meet again: EU External competence after the Emission Trading Saga'

02/05/2012, University of Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance and VU University Amsterdam Centre for European Legal Studies Joint Workshop (UVA/VU).
Speaker on Panel: ‘When in Europe… EU competence in the sphere of external action after the Emission Trading Scheme saga’

2011

02/12/2011, VU University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Netherlands.
Invited Guest lecture: ‘Legitimate Interests under the prism of Constitutional Identity’

05/09/2011, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Speaker on Panel / Paper entitled: ‘Constitutional Identity and Membership in the EU’

31/03/2011, Uppsala University European Law Colloquium on EU External Relations. ‘The Coherence and Effectiveness of EU External Relations after Lisbon’, Faculty of Law, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Co-organiser with M. Bergström and Speaker on Panel / paper entitled: ‘Civil Protection in Europe and the Lisbon ‘Solidarity Clause’: A genuine legal concept or a rhetorical device?’

16/03/2011, Visiting Fellowship Lecture, Uppsala Forum for Peace, Democracy and Justice, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Lecture entitled: ‘Constitutional identity in the European Union: A light that never goes out’.

23/02/2011, Roundtable discussion: ‘Where do we stand after Lisbon’, Surrey European Law Unit, School of Law, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Organiser and Speaker / paper entitled: ‘The state of EU criminal law after Lisbon’.

16/02/2011, Department of Law, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Guest lecture entitled: ‘EU Citizenship within a Nation-Statist Setting: The state giveth and the state taketh away?’

14/01/2011, Uppsala University European Law Colloquium on Freedom, Security and Security. ‘Information and Data Protection: Towards more Justice, Freedom and Security?’, Faculty of Law, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Invited Speaker on Panel / paper entitled: ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: Lessons from the adoption and transposition of the Data Retention Directive’.