Professor Michael Dougan M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D (Cantab)

Michael works primarily in the field of EU Law. His research interests include:

EU institutional and constitutional law - especially the relationship between Union law and the national legal systems.

Law of the Single Market - especially the free movement of goods, persons and services, and Union regulatory competence / strategies.

EU welfare law - especially the free movement and equal treatment rights of Union citizens, and cross-border social security coordination.

UK withdrawal from the European Union - including its impact on both the domestic and European legal systems.

Michael has published extensively in edited collections and scholarly journals - including the Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, European Public Law, European Constitutional Law Review, European Journal of Social Security, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies and Law Quarterly Review. He is the author of National Remedies Before the Court of Justice (Hart Publishing, 2004) and The UK's Withdrawal from the EU: A Legal Analysis (OUP, 2021). Michael is also the editor / co-editor of various collections of essays and special journal issues - including The UK after Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges (Intersentia, 2017).

Since 2007, Michael has been Joint Editor of the Common Market Law Review - the world's leading scientific journal for EU legal studies.