Biography

Theodore Konstadinides is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law. His research and teaching focuses on European constitutional law. He has previously taught at University College London and has been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Stockholm, Uppsala, Vrije Amsterdam and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He has written on a number of issues, including EU competence delimitation, judicial protection in EU law and aspects of EU external relations. 

Theodore is currently working on his second monograph on the rule of law in the European Union. The purpose is to identify the procedural and substantive dimension of the rule of law in EU internal and external policies in order to provide a better understanding of the evolution, scope and application of EU law in practice. The monograph will be published by Hart in 2016.

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).
  
• EU external relations: particularly, the relationship between EU and public international law and the external dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
  
• Protection of fundamental rights in EU law: in particular, effective judicial protection, and the right to mobility through EU citizenship.

PhD Supervision

Theodore welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students in a variety of European law-related topics.

Current Student

Miss Anastasia Karatzia researching on the transition of the EU from Representative to Participatory Democracy.

Publications

Books (Authored & Edited)

Konstadinides, T. (auth.) The Rule of Law in the European Union: The Evolution and Scope of the European Constitutional Project (Oxford, Hart Publishing, Modern Studies in European Law, forthcoming: 2016).

Dzehtsiarou K., Konstadinides T., Lock T., and O’Meara N. (eds.) Human Rights Law in Europe: The influence, overlaps and contradictions of the EU and the ECHR (London, Routledge, Research in European Union Law, forthcoming: 2014).

Dyson T. and Konstadinides T. (auth.) European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and International Relations Theory  (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, New Security Challenges Series, forthcoming: 2013).

Eckes C. and Konstadinides T. (eds.) Crime within the Area of Freedom Security and Justice: A European Public Order (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011), 328p. ISBN: 9781107002159

Konstadinides T. (auth.) 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), 352p. ISBN: 9888880044

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Konstadinides, T. and O'Meara N. ‘Rebalancing Fundamental Rights and Judicial Protection in Criminal Matters after Lisbon and Stockholm’ in C. Murphy and D. Acosta Arcarazo (eds.) EU Justice and Security Law: After Lisbon and Stockholm (Oxford, Hart Publishing, Modern Studies in European Law, forthcoming: 2014).

Konstadinides T. ‘Mass Surveillance and Data Protection in EU Law: The Data Retention Directive Saga’ in Bergström M. and Jonsson Cornell A.J. (eds.) European Police and Criminal Law Cooperation (Oxford, Hart Publishing, forthcoming: 2013), Chapter 5. ISBN: 9781849463508

Konstadinides T. ‘The Europeanisation of Extradition: How Many Light Years Away to Mutual Confidence?’ in Eckes C. and Konstadinides T. (eds.) Crime within the Area of Freedom Security and Justice: A European Public Order (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011), Chapter 7, pp.192-223. ISBN: 9781107002159

Articles in Journals

Konstadinides T. ‘Civil protection cooperation in EU law: Is there room for solidarity to wriggle past?’ (2013) European Law Journal (forthcoming). ISSN: 1351-5993.

Konstadinides T. ‘When in Europe: Customary international law and EU competence in the Sphere of External Action’ (2012) 13 (11) German Law Journal 1177-1201. ISSN: 2071-8322

Konstadinides T. ‘Drawing the line between Circumvention and Gap-Filling: An Exploration of the Conceptual Limits of the Treaty’s Flexibility Clause’ (2012) 31 (1) Yearbook of European Law 227-262.  ISSN: 0263-326, Online ISSN: 2045-0044

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
*Reproduced by arrangement in (2012) 1 European Current Law IX-XXI (Focus Article). ISSN: 0964-0037

Konstadinides T. ‘Constitutional Identity as a Shield and as a Sword: The European Legal Order within the Framework of National Constitutional Settlement’ (2011) 13 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 195-218. ISBN13: 9781849461993

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

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 (Focus Article). ISSN: 0964-0037

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

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’ (2004) 1 Common Law Review 12-16. ISSN: 1213-4678

Electronic Publications / Other

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 1-21 (available at www.jur.uu.se).

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

Book Reviews

Fichera M. 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

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

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

Teaching

2012-2013

Undergraduate modules

EU Law II (Level 2, convenor)
Counter-Terrorism Law (Level 3, convenor)

Postgraduate Modules

EU International Relations Law (LLM, convenor)

Departmental Duties

Conferences & Lectures in 2012

28/11/2012, King's College, London
Paper entitled: 'Justice, Security and respect for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms after Lisbon and Stockholm'

12/11/2012, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.
Paper entitled: 'European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and International Relations Theory'

03/09/2012-05/09/2012, The University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 42nd Annual Conference, ‘Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2012: Old Borders – New Frontiers’, Passau, Germany.
Paper (with Dr T. Dyson) entitled: ‘The Drivers and Destination of CSDP: Reconciling EU Law and IR Theory’.

28/06/2012-29/06/2012, Birmingham Institute of European Law, 3rd Conference on the Future of European Law and Policy, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham.
Paper entitled: ‘Reconciling Constitutional identity with the obligations of EU Membership’.

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

22/05/2012, University of Uppsala, Faculty of Law, Sweden.
Guest lecture: ‘When in Europe… EU competence in the sphere of external action after the Emission Trading Scheme saga’.

02/05/2012, University of Amsterdam Centre for European Law (ACELG) and Governance and VU University Amsterdam Centre for European Legal Studies Joint Symposium, ‘EU Law Qua Global Governance Law?
Paper entitled: ‘When in Europe… EU competence in the sphere of external action after the Emission Trading Scheme saga’.