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Kathryn Wright

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Biography

Dr Kathryn Wright
LLB (Kent), Dip (Amsterdam), MA (Lancaster), PhD (UEA), PGCAP (York)

Chair, Research Committee

My work centres on European Union law and policymaking, regulation and competition, and the role of courts in governance. My research approaches encompass doctrinal legal research, elite interviewing, comparative analysis, content analysis, and interdisciplinary research particularly with political science.

I joined York Law School in 2010. I have held visiting fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence; iCourts Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen; and GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp. During 2018 I was a Parliamentary Academic Fellow providing support and advice to the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee on the UK's future relationship with the EU.

Previously, I was a Research Associate in the multidisciplinary ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). I have carried out commissioned research for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the (then) UK Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, and the Welsh Senedd. Before entering academia, I worked at the European Parliament and in a law firm.

Research

Projects

  • Constitutional challenges of EU regulatory techniques (supported by York-Maastricht Partnership funding, with co-investigator Prof Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht) and colleagues from and beyond both universities)
  • Managing regulatory divergence in the UK's future relationship with the EU (including an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account grant to support a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship)
  • Trust between regulators

I welcome PhD proposals in the following areas:

  • EU constitutional and administrative law
  • EU internal market and competition law
  • Regulatory governance
  • The relationship between the UK and the EU

Please see a full list of my publications, other outputs and activities in the York Research Database.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • European Union Law

  • International Trade Law and Regulation - module leader

Postgraduate

  • Legal Systems - module leader

  • International Trade Law and Regulation - module leader

I have previously designed and led modules in Competition Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and in Law & Language with the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.

External activities

Memberships

  • International Society for Public Law (ICON-S)       
  • European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)      
  • University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)        
  • UK Association for European Law (UKAEL)       
  • Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)        
  • Invited associate member of ESRC Centre for Competition Policy 2012-
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy        

Other Roles

  • European Commission expert evaluator Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship grants
  • White Rose Doctoral Training Centre Socio-Legal Local Pathway Leader 2012-2015        
  • Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) co-convener of EU stream 2013-2015

Contact details

Dr Kathryn Wright
York Law School
LMB/279

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5816