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Centre for European Legal Studies
Established in 1972, CELS is one of the UK's oldest centres of its kind
The Centre engages with an international circle of scholars, practitioners, the political community and State and non-State actors
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The Centre’s approach is critical, independent, comparative and contextual. It draws upon a diverse group of research staff and a unique legacy as one of the UK’s earliest and most influential centres in European Legal Studies.
The Centre engages with an international circle of scholars, practitioners, the political community and State and non-State actors. It is assisted in its work by an advisory board. In addition, the Centre maintains collaborative links with other research centres and disciplines on broader themes such as transnational private and commercial law, constitutionalism, human rights, and new forms of governance.
Established in 1972, CELS is one of the oldest centres of its kind in the UK.
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Members
The Centre engages with an international circle of scholars, practitioners, the political community and State and non-State actors. It is assisted in its work by an advisory board
Centre management
| Name | Role | Research interests |
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Sociology, Philosophy, Business ethics, Corporations and associations law, Banking, finance and securities law, Corporate social responsibility, Corporate governance |
Centre colleagues
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Competition law & legal philosophy, Competition law & digital Markets, Regulatory approaches to shaping (competition in) digital markets, EU law, Media law, Internet law, Jurisprudence |
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| Student Member: PhD in Law | ||
| English and French comparative law, Contract, Consumer and Business law | ||
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Law and technology, Data Protection, Privacy, Fundamental rights |
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| Human Rights, Equality, Racial Equality, Non-discrimination, Diversity, Inclusivity, Interdisciplinarity, Disparate performance | ||
| Student Member: PhD in Law | ||
| Environmental Law, Planning Law, Renewable Energy, NSIPs, EI | ||
| EU External economic relations law and policy, EU trade agreements, Regional economic integration | ||
| EU Competition Law, Digital markets, Tying, Article 102(d), Ordoliberalism, Behavioural economics, Algorithmic pricing, Artificial Intelligence, Antitrust | ||
| International and comparative law, commercial law, private law and civil obligations, law in context, conflict of laws(including private international law) | ||
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Alexandre Dumilieu |
Student member | |
| Human rights law, Constitutional law and reform, Free speech and aspects of Criminal justice |
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Corporate Governance, Corporate Power and Lobbying, Corporate Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption and Good Governance, Economic/Financial Crime, Investigative Journalism, State-Corporate Nexus, Transparency, Whistleblowing |
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| Copyright, Intellectual Property Law, information theory (quantum and flow), knowledge theory, legal theory, biotech theory, creativity, and computer science (esp. tracking, watermarking and hex hacking). | ||
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Léa Hoëppe |
Student member | |
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Anouk Joly |
Student member | |
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| Pension law and policy; Company law; Trusts law; Labour law | ||
| Shaoxuan Lei | Student member | |
| European consumer law, European contract law, consumer behaviour, digital content, principle of transparency, big data and private law | ||
| General international law, international humanitarian law, and the law of cyber security | ||
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Ana Murgulia |
Student member | |
| Thitinan Ngamsanguan | Student member | |
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| Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory with a particular focus on the theory and practice of French Constitutional and Administrative Law in a historical context and comparative perspective | ||
| Europeanization of Private Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law, Transnational Commercial Law | ||
| Public international law and the legal aspects of European security and defence policy. | ||
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Imbedding integrity and rule of law in new technologies, Implications of autonomous machines on society, Optimisation of cross border and joint financial crime investigations, Virtual and crypto assets, Disruption of cybercrime and fraud, Countering tax crimes, International trade, investment and security, Principle of solidarity in international relations and trade law, Integrity in citizenship by investment programmes |
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Projects
Publications
| Name | Publications (since 2017) |
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| Luzak J (2024). 3Rs of Sustainable Activism on Social Media: Relatability, Reliability and Redress. Journal of Consumer Policy, 47(4), 511-532. | |
| Luzak J (2023). Regulating the wild world of digital services in the EU. In Savin A & Trzaskowski J (Eds.). Research Handbook on EU Internet Law (Edward Elgar), 368-387. | |
| Luzak J, Wulf AJ, Seizov O, Loos MBM & Junuzovic M (2023). ABC of Online Consumer Disclosure Duties: Improving Transpraency and Legal Certainty in Europe. Journal of Consumer Policy, 46(3), 307-333. | |
| Luzak J & Goanta C (2022). #Paidpartnership Means More than Money. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 5, 188-191. | |
| Luzak J (2022). Influencer marketing as a potentially unfair commercial practice: the Commission's new guidance. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & handelpraktijken, 2, 58-63. | |
| Luzak J (2021). Tailor-made consumer protection: personalisation's impact on the granularity of consumer information. In Corrales Compagnucci M, Haapio H & Hagan M (Eds.). Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology (Edward Elgar), 105-129. | |
| Luzak J (2021). Preserving Consumers' Choice Online: Competition Law to the Rescue!. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & handelpraktijken, 1, 2-5. | |
| Luzak J (2020). Transparency in the Insurance Contract Law in the Netherlands. In Nousia K & Marano P (Eds.). Transparency in Insurance Contract Law (Springer). | |
| “The Transparent Trap: a Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Design of Transparent Online Disclosures in the EU” (2018) Journal of Consumer Policy, . |
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| Luzak J (2018). Digital age: time to say goodbye to traditional concepts. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 4 . |
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| Luzak J (2020). The Steady Creep of an Average Consumer as a Reference Consumer in the Assessment of the Transparent Provision of Mandatory Information. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken, 5 | |
| Luzak J, Wiewiórowska-Domagalska A (2020). Case studies - Polish law. In Baaij CJW, Cabrelli D, Macgregor L (Eds.) Interpretation of Commercial Contracts in European Private Law, Intersentia | |
| Luzak J (2020). A Broken Notion: Impact of Modern Technologies on Product Liability. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 11(3), 630-649. | |
| Luzak J, van der Hof S (2018). Directive 2011/83/EU - Consumer Rights Directive (Electronic Commerce Aspects). In Gijrath S, van der Hof S, Lodder AR, Zwenne G-J (Eds.) Concise European Data Protection, E-Commerce and IT Law, Wolters Kluwer |
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| Luzak J (2018). Who Calls the Tune? Stock Taking of Behavioural Consumer Protection in Europe. In Micklitz H-W, Sibony A-L, Esposito F (Eds.) Research Methods in Consumer Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd: . |
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| Luzak J (2017). Is all fair in war against unhealthy and unsustainable lifestyles? the right to privacy vs. modern technology in consumer contracts. In Siliquini-Cinelli L, Hutchison A (Eds.) The Constitutional Dimension of Contract Law. A Comparative Perspective, Springer, 39-59 Abstract. . |
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| Luzak J (2019). Will the imaginary active consumers please stand up? Case note to Walbusch Walter Busch (C-430/17). Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law . . | |
| Luzak J (2019). In the wind of change: Ten years of the EU consumer credit framework. Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken, 1, 2-4. . |
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| Luzak J, Junuzovi膰 M (2019). Blurred Lines: Between Formal and Substantive Transparency in Consumer Credit Contracts. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 8, 97-107. . |
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| Beduschi A (2024). Extended Reality, Enhanced Protection. European Data Protection Law Review, 10(2), 178-188. | |
| Beduschi AC (2018). Vulnerability on Trial: Protection of Migrant Children’s Rights in the Jurisprudence of International Human Rights Courts. Boston University International Law Journal, 36(1), 55-85. Abstract. . | |
| Danov M (2022). Competition Law Enforcement: Private International Law and Access to Effective Legal Remedies in Cross-Border Cases. In Danov M & Garcia-Castrillon CO (Eds.), A Guide to Global Private International Law, 233-246 | |
| Danov M (2023). Private International Law and Competition Litigation in a Global Context (Bloomsbury Academic). | |
| Danov M (2024). Private Antitrust Enforcement - Improving Injured Parties' Access to Legal Remedies. Global Competition Litigation Review. | |
| Danov M (2020). Cross-Border Litigation: Evaluating the Brexit Impact – a Socio-Legal Model for Data Analysis. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 199-229. | |
| “Cross-Border Aspects of EU Competition Law Enforcement: Comprehensive Reform Needed?” in: Tomljenovic V, Bodiroga-Vukobrat N, Butorac Malnar V, Kunda&苍产蝉辫;滨鈥�(eds.) EU Competition and State Aid Rules: Public and Private Enforcement (2017 Springer) | |
| “Cross-border Litigation in Europe: Some Theoretical Issues and Some Practical Challenges” in: Beaumont P, Danov M, Trimmings K, Yuksel&苍产蝉辫;叠鈥�(eds.) Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (2017 Hart Publishing) | |
| “Data Analysis: Important Issues to be Considered in a Cross-border Context” in: Beaumont P, Danov M, Trimmings K, Yuksel&苍产蝉辫;叠鈥�(eds.) Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (2017 Hart Publishing) | |
| “Effective remedies in cross-border civil and commercial law disputes: a case for an institutional reform at EU level” in: Beaumont P, Danov M, Trimmings K, Yuksel&苍产蝉辫;叠鈥�(eds.) Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (2017 Hart Publishing) | |
| “Introduction: Research Aims and Methodology” in: Beaumont P, Danov M, Trimmings K, Yüksel&苍产蝉辫;叠鈥�(eds.) Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (2017 Hart Publishing) | |
| “The relationship between litigation and ADR: Evaluating the effect of the EU PIL framework on ADR/settlements in cross-border cases” in: Beaumont P, Danov M, Trimmings K, Yuksel&苍产蝉辫;叠鈥�(Eds.) Cross-Border Litigation in Europe (2017 Hart Publishing) | |
| & | Ma膷ák K, Prince S (2017). Constitutional Brexit: Why we need courts to determine the constitutional arrangements of the UK. Politics Home (26 Jan 2017). . |
| Sari A (2023). Instrumentalized Migration and the Belarus Crisis: Strategies of Legal Coercion. Report for the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, 1-52. . | |
| Sari A (2019). The Mutual Assistance Clauses of the North Atlantic and EU Treaties: The Challenge of Hybrid Threats. Harvard National Security Journal, 10, 405-460. | |
| Sari A (2017). Reversing a Withdrawal Notification under Article 50 TEU: can a Member State Change its Mind?. European Law Review, 42, 451-451. . |
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| Caine C (2023). Brexit and environmental law in England: where are we now? Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 41(4), 529-540. | |
| Noussia K, Caine C & Richardson W (2022). European Regulatory and Insurance Aspects of Carbon Capture and Storage. European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 31(6), 383-393. | |
| Caine C (2020). The Race to the Water for Offshore Renewable Energy: Assessing Cumulative and In-combination Impacts for Offshore Renewable Energy Developments. Journal of Environmental Law, 32(1), 83-109. | |
| “The place of the Rochdale envelope approach in offshore renewable energy” (2018) 20(2) Environmental Law Review | |
| “A fresh start for screening under the Habitats Regulations: Case c-323/17 People Over Wind, Peter Sweetman v Coillte Teoranta [2018] Ecr I-244” (2018) 20(3) Environmental Law Review | |
| “Dieselgate” and Consumer Law: Repercussions of the Volkswagen scandal in the United Kingdom” (2017) 6(2) Journal of European Consumer and Market Law | |
| Heldeweg MA & Saintier S (2020). Renewable energy communities as 'socio-legal institutions': A normative frame for energy decentralization? Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 199. | |
| Saintier S (2017). Community energy companies in the UK: a potential model for sustainable development in "local" energy?. Sustainability (Switzerland), 9(8) Available online: | |
| ”Human Dignity is Inviolable. It must be Respected and Protected”: Retaining the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after Brexit” (2018) 2 European Human Rights Law Review | |
| Cole M (2024). Conditional Rebates and Intel: A Step Backwards by any Standard? Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 20(1-2), 137-154. | |
| Cole M & Hartmann S (2023). Ordoliberalism: What we know and what we think we know. Modern Law Review, 86(6), 1309-1335. | |
| Cole M (2023). No data, no abuse. European Competition Law Review, 44(10), 419-428. | |
| Cole M (2019). Does the EU Commission really hate the US? Understanding the Google decision through competition theory. European Law Review, 44 . |
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Edwards R (2023). Residual liberty. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 73(4). |
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Edwards R (2022). Justice for the blackest malefactors? Determinate prison sentences, early release, and the ECHR. Legal Studies, 42(4), 600-619. |
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Edwards R (2020). Police Powers and Article 5 ECHR: Time for a New Approach to the Interpretation of the Right to Liberty. Liverpool Law Review, 41(3), 331-356. |
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Baaij J, Rueda I & van Schagen E (2022). Designing Information Obligations in EU Consumer and Energy Law: Behavioural Research and Legal Design as 'Best Available Evidence'. European Journal of Law Reform, 24, 104-122. |
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Events
2025 Lasok Lecture delivered by Ms Karen Vandekerckhove
Wednesday 26 March
The annual Lasok Lecture once again led to insightful discussions on a very topical and socially relevant issue: Gender equality.
Ms Karen Vandekerckhove, the Head of the Gender Equality Unity and Deputy Director Equality and Non-Discrimination within the European Commission's DG Justice and Consumers, illuminated the history of EU policies aiming to combat violence against women, fight gender stereotypes and to assure women a place to lead equally throughout society, e.g. through the adoption of a Directive on gender balance in corporate boards or Pay Transparency Directive.
While the pendulum on gender equality policies keeps on swinging, the Roadmap for women's rights adopted by the European Commission earlier this March sets a number of principles that will guide policymakers in assuring gender mainstreaming.
Find out more about the Lasok Lecture series.
Our past events are here.
Studying
LLM Masters of Law
The Exeter LLM is a substantive, rigorous, and genuinely flexible programme of postgraduate study designed for the most ambitious and capable students. Delivered by some of the biggest names in legal research, our LLM allows you to create a bespoke programme of learning addressing your specific academic and professional needs, readying you to fulfil your career ambitions or for doctoral study.
Find out more on our studying pages.
PhD study
We welcome applications from students wishing to study a PhD. You can see our main areas of research on the members tab. Find out more on our PhD pages.
Examples of our students:
Alptekin Koksal
'EU competition law and issues around the commercial use of 'Big Data''
Yanjun Shen
'The new legal framework of competition law in the digitalised EU market from the consumer welfare perspective'
Alexandra Böhme (with Politics)
'Constitutional Theory in Britain and Germany. Conceptual Challenges by Supranationalism and Internationalization'
Kim Soyeon
'Can ASEAN Benefit from the European Union's Experience in the Field of Facilitating Corporate Collaboration?'
Gisela Grabow (Germany)
'EU Law and 'best interest of the child' (jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement in Brussels II-bis; juridiction, recognition and enforcement in the traditional Hague Conventions)'
Hammad Hayssan (Egypt)
Subject of theses: 'Copyright Law'
Undergraduate study
Useful Links for students considering European legal studies
Business Engagement
Our CELS members have a range of consultancy areas they specialise in and provide advisory work, strategic policy development, report writing and law drafting, collaboration with national/regional/international organisations.
| Name | Areas of expertise |
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| EU Competition Law, abuse of dominance, unilateral behaviour, Article 102 TFEU | |
| Public health law, food, alcohol, tobacco, human rights | |
| Pension Law and policy | |
| Consumer protection, data protection, and information transparency | |
| EU corporate governance, EU financial Law, EU capital markets law |
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Centre for European Legal Studies
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