Appointed in September 2011 as Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law. In January 2019, Professor Kilpatrick was appointed as Dean of Graduate Studies.

Before coming to the EUI in 2011, she worked at LSE and before that at Cambridge University. Her interests lie mainly in the law and policy construction of Social Europe, especially the EU’s roles. A focus of her recent work has been EMU and Social Europe with a particular focus on sovereign debt loan arrangements and legal challenges to those arrangements from those within debtor EU states before the Court of Justice and human rights bodies. She is also running research projects on the new generation of Equality Law in Europe and on The Court of Justice in the Archives. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Industrial Law Journal, the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and the Giornale di diritto di lavoro e di relazioni industriali.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

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The Court of Justice in the Archives

Supervisees

Fields of expertise

Social dimension of EU Economic and monetary union: legal and social aspects Labour and social rights as human and fundamental rights Public interest lawyering in Europe Equality and anti-discrimination law Court of Justice of the European Union

Recent research output

DE BURCA, Grainne; KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2022), Questioning the EU's 'principled openness' to international law : an examination of the Court's reception of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, Contribution to book
GINES MARTIN, Diego (2022), When deportation fails : non-removable migrants in the European Union, Thesis
CREMONA, Marise; KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2020), Using the historical archives of the EU to study CJEU case law, Article
CREMONA, Marise; KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2021), The Court of Justice in the archives : introduction, Article
EKLUND, Hanna; KILPATRICK, Claire (2021), Article 21 EU charter of fundamental rights, Working Paper
KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (ed/s), (2021), Contemporary challenges to EU legality, Book

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Additional information

“I welcome research proposals on Social Europe, broadly defined. I am especially interested in new social challenges created by EMU and enlargement and in public interest lawyering before European institutions”

Claire Kilpatrick