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Jeffrey Kenner

Professor of European Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise Summary

Jeff Kenner read law at King's College London and was awarded the degree of Master of Laws at University College London in 1990. He began his academic career at the University of Leicester before joining the School of Law at Nottingham in 2001 and becoming Professor of European Law in 2006. Jeff has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia School of Law and at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, New York City. He is a member of the Council of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation. He has acted as an expert for the European Commission and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development. He is a member of the editorial board of the Human Rights Law Review. Jeff's principal teaching and research interests lie in the fields of EU employment, human rights and international relations law. In addition to many published articles in leading journals, he is author of EU Employment Law: From Rome to Amsterdam and Beyond (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003 - new edition, 2012). He is editor of the Routledge Student Stautes' series of European Union Legislation. Jeff is currently working on his next book on The EU and Global Labour Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013).

Research Summary

Research interests lie in the fields of European Union law and employment law.

Selected Publications

  • KENNER J., 2012. Economic Partnership Agreements under the Cotonou Framework: Enhancing the Labour Dimension of Global Governance?. In: VAN VOOREN B. BLOCKMANS S. & WOUTERS J., ed., The Legal Dimension of Global Governance: What Role for the EU? Oxford University Press.
  • KENNER J., 2009. New Frontiers in EU Labour Law: From Flexicurity to Flex-Security. In: DOUGAN M. & CURRIE S., ed., 50 Years of the European Treaties: Looking Forward and Thinking Back Hart Publishing. 279-310
  • KENNER J., 2011. The Court of Justice of the EU and Human Rights in 2010 - Entering a Post-Lisbon Age of Maturity?. In: BENEDEK, W., BENOIT-ROHMER, F., WOLFRAM, K. and NOWAK, W., eds., European Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 Vienna: Neur Wissenschaftlicher Verlag - NMW. 173-185
  • KENNER J., 2011. Labour Clauses in EU Preferential Trade Agreements: An Analysis of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. In: BAGWELL K. & MAVROIDIS P., ed., Preferential Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Economics Cambridge University Press. 180-209

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work on the following areas:

  • Employment law: national, EU, international, comparative, human rights
  • EU law: employment, constitutional/governance, internal market, external/international relations, development, neighbourhood policy, human rights
  • Human rights: social rights

Recent PhD Students

  • Azopardi, Keith: Sovereignty And The Stateless Nation: How Has Gibraltar's Democratic & Governance Deficit Emerged And How Should It Be Addressed In The Modern European Legal Context? (co-supervised with Professor David Harris)
  • Ghazaryan, Nara: How Effective is the European Neighbourhood Policy in Transposing the EU's Concept of Democratic Values into the Legal Order of Armenia and Other Countries of Southern Caucasus?
  • Kalogeropoulou, Konstantina: The Legal Framework of Cross-border Portability of Supplementary Occupational Pension Rights
  • KENNER J., 2012. Economic Partnership Agreements under the Cotonou Framework: Enhancing the Labour Dimension of Global Governance?. In: VAN VOOREN B. BLOCKMANS S. & WOUTERS J., ed., The Legal Dimension of Global Governance: What Role for the EU? Oxford University Press.
  • KENNER J., 2011. The Court of Justice of the EU and Human Rights in 2010 - Entering a Post-Lisbon Age of Maturity?. In: BENEDEK, W., BENOIT-ROHMER, F., WOLFRAM, K. and NOWAK, W., eds., European Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 Vienna: Neur Wissenschaftlicher Verlag - NMW. 173-185
  • KENNER J., 2011. Labour Clauses in EU Preferential Trade Agreements: An Analysis of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. In: BAGWELL K. & MAVROIDIS P., ed., Preferential Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Economics Cambridge University Press. 180-209
  • KENNER J., 2011. European Union Legislation 2011-2012 Abingdon.
  • KENNER J., ed., 2010. European Union Legislation 2010-2011 Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish.
  • TORTELL L and DELARUE R. & KENNER J., 2009. The EU and the ILO Maritime Labour Convention: ‘In our common interest and in the interest of the world'. In: ORBIE J. & TORTELL L., ed., The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization: How the EU influences the world London: Routledge. 113-130
  • KENNER J., 2009. New Frontiers in EU Labour Law: From Flexicurity to Flex-Security. In: DOUGAN M. & CURRIE S., ed., 50 Years of the European Treaties: Looking Forward and Thinking Back Hart Publishing. 279-310
  • KENNER J., ed., 2009. European Union Legislation 2009-2010 Abingdon: Routledge.
  • KENNER J., 2008. The European Union. In: KELLER W.L. & DARBY T.J, ed., International Labor and Employment Laws 3rd. I. Washington DC: BNA Books. 1-274
  • KENNER, J., 2007. Regulating working time: beyond subordination. In: WEATHERILL, S., ed., Better regulation Oxford: Hart Publishing. 195-217
  • KENNER J., 2007. The Remodelled European Community GSP+: A Positive Response to the WTO Ruling?. In: BERMANN G.A. & MAVROIDIS P.C., ed., WTO Law and Developing Countries Cambridge University Press. 292-305
  • KENNER, J., 2005. Worker involvement in the societas Europaea: integrating company and labour law in the European Union? Yearbook of European Law. 24, 223-259
  • KENNER, J., 2005. The constitution that never was: is there anything worth salvaging from the wreckage? Industrial Relations Journal. 36(6), 541-567
  • KENNER, J.S., 2005. Differentiation in EU Labour Law In: European Union Studies Association Ninth Biennial Conference.
  • KENNER, J., 2004. Working time, Jaeger and the seven-year itch Columbia Journal of European Law. 11(1), 53-76
  • KENNER, J., 2004. Re-evaluating the concept of working time: an analysis of recent case law Industrial Relations Journal. 35(6), 588-602
  • KENNER, J.S., 2004. The Statute for a European Company (Societas Europaea): A Fifty-Year Journey from Uniformity to Flexibility? In: Seminar on European Union Law.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2004. The EU and Global Labour Law In: Seminar.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2004. The Case for Inclusion in <em>Vision</em>: The Research Magazine of the University of Nottingham
  • KENNER, J., 2003. EU employment law: from Rome to Amsterdam and beyond Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • HERVEY, T.K. and KENNER, J.S., eds., 2003. Economic and Social Rights Under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Legal Perspective Hart Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2003. Economic and social rights in the EU legal order: the mirage of indivisibility. In: HERVEY, T.K. and KENNER, J., eds., Economic and social rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: a legal perspective Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd. 1-25
  • KENNER, J., 2003. Siofra O'Leary, Employment Law at the European Court of Justice: Judicial Structures, Policies and Processes International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. VOL 19(NUMBER 3), 405-409
  • KENNER, J.S., 2003. European Union. In: International Labor and Employment Laws American Bar Association, Chicago, USA. 1-175
  • KENNER, J.S., 2002. Economic and Social Rights in the EU Legal Order - The Mirage of Indivisibility In: Interantional Workshop on Economic and Social Rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2002. The Litigation Procedure in Discrimination Disputes In: European Labour Law and Social Security Congress.
  • KENNER,J.S., 2001. Review of R. Nielsen, European Labour Law (DJOF Publishing, 2000) European Law Review. 26, 209
  • KENNER, J.S., 2001. European Employment Law In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2001. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Panacea for EU Labour Law In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2001. The New EU Social Policy Agenda In: Lawtel Conference on Making New Legislation Work for Employers.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2001. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Panacea for EU Social Law In: European Community Studies Association Annual Conference.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. The Employment Title: Enhancing or Undermining EC Social Policy In: University Association for Contemporary European Studies Annual Conference.
  • KENNER, J., 2000. Employment and macroeconomics in the EC Treaty: a legal and political symbiosis? Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative law. 7(4), 375-397
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. The European Commission's Anti-Discrimination Package: An edifice Built on Soft Law Foundations In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. The EU Employment Title In: Embassy of the European Union.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. The Paradox of the Social Dimension. In: Reforming the European Union: From Rome to Amsterdam 108-129
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. EU Social Law In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. Article 13 EC and Soft Law In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J., 2000. Eu Employment Law New Law Journal. ISSU 6954, 1458-1459
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. The EU Employment Title and EMU: A Legal and Political Symbiosis? In: The Impact of Economic and Monetary Union on European Union Employment and Social Policy.
  • KENNER, J.S., 2000. European Social and Employment Law at the Millennium In: International Centre for Management, Law and Industrial Relations.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1999. Cohesion or Fragmentation? - The Aftermath of the Berlin Summit In: Unknown.
  • KENNER,J.S., 1999. Amsterdam and Beyond New Law Journal. 149, 1328-1329
  • KENNER,J.S., 1999. Review of T.K. Hervey, European Social Law and Policy (Longman, 1998) European Law Review. 24, 317
  • KENNER, J.S., 1999. Cohesion or Fragmentation? - The Aftermath of the Berlin Summit In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1999. EU Employment Policy: Making Soft Law Work? In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1999. EC Employment Law Developments In: Butterwoths Employment Law Conference.
  • KENNER, J., 1999. The EU Employment Title and the 'Third Way': Making Soft Law Work? International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. VOL 15(NUMBER 1), 33-60
  • KENNER, J.S., 1998. The EU Social Charter In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1998. The European Union: Past, Present and Future In: RAF Legal Service.
  • KENNER,J.S., 1998. EC Employment Law New Law Journal. 148, 1316-1317
  • KENNER, J., 1997. A Distinctive Legal Base for Social Policy? The Court of Justice Answers a "Delicate Question" European Law Review. VOL 22(NUMBER 6), 579-586
  • KENNER,J.S., 1997. Review of T. Colaianni, European Works Councils Directive: A Legal and Practical Guide (Sweet and Maxwell, 1996) European Law Journal. 22, 186-187
  • KENNER,J.S., 1997. Opening up a New Chapter New Law Journal New Law Journal. 147, 1162-1166
  • KENNER,J.S., 1996. EC Labour Law - Time for Reflection New Law Journal. 146, 1129-1130
  • KENNER, J.S., 1996. Soft Law and European Community Social Policy In: Conference on the European Social Fund and European Social Policy.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1996. Concepts of Equality and Identity in European Community Law In: Unknown.
  • KENNER, J.S., 1995. Citizenship and Fundamental Rights: Reshaping the European Social Model. In: Trends in European Social Policy: Essays in Memory of Malcolm Mead (Emploment and European Union Law Series) Dartmouth Publishing Co. Ltd, Aldershot. 3-85
  • KENNER,J.S., 1995. EC Labour Law - The Soft Option New Law Journal. 145, 1090-1091
  • KENNER, J., 1995. EC Labour Law: The Softly, Softly Approach International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. VOL 11(NUMBER 4), 307-326
  • KENNER,J.S., 1995. Trends in European Social Policy: Essays in Memory of Malcolm Mead (Emploment and European Union Law Series) Dartmouth Publishing Co. Ltd, Aldershot.
  • KENNER,J.S., 1994. European Social Policy - New Directions International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 10, 56-63
  • KENNER,J.S., 1994. Economic and Social Cohesion - The Rocky Road Ahead Legal Issues of European Integration. 1, 1-37
  • KENNER,J.S., 1994. Review of A. Byre, EC Social Policy and 1992: Cases and Materials (Kluwer Law International, 1992) European Law Review. 19, 114-115
  • KENNER,J.S., 1992. Review of T. Treu and M. Terry (eds.), European Employment and Industrial Relations Glossaries (Sweet and Maxwell, 1991) European Law Review. 17, 287-288

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