Professor Anthony Arnull KC (Hon) | |
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Academic background | |
Education |
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Thesis | The impact on the individual of the general principles of the law of the European Economic Community (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Dashwood [1] |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Birmingham |
Website | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/arnull-anthony.aspx |
Anthony "Tony" Arnull KC (Hon) is a British legal scholar specialising in EU law and holds the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham's Law School.
Arnull studied a BA in Law at the University of Sussex and at the Institut d'études européennes ,Universitélibre de Bruxelles. He later qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales within a Magic Circle law firm. [2] He then received a PhD from the University of Leicester. [2]
Arnull wrote The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual in 1990,assessing the impact of the European Court of Justice. In a review,Lewis outlined:
"It must also be said that the discussion is certainly thorough and scholarly and Arnull makes thought-provoking observations on the case law."
Arnull provided a memorandum to the UK's House of Lords after being asked to comment on the new roles the European Court of Justice would play in the Treaty of Nice [4]
Arnull contributed to Channel 4's FactCheck on the Lord Pearson's claim: "Most of our national law is now made in Brussels" on Sky (6 April 2010) [5]
In 2017, Arnull published European Union law: a very short introduction, a book aimed at the general public to introduce the laws of the European Union, within the popular a very short introduction book series from Oxford University Press. [6] [7]
Arnull is a consultant editor on the European Law Journal [8]
In 2024, Arnull was made an honorary King's Counsel, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on European Union Law, which, the Ministry of Justice noted, "is widely respected and has had a significant impact on legislation and case law." [9]