Theodore Konstadinides

Theodore joined the Law School as a Senior Lecturer in 2016, and has been Professor of Law since October 2018. His research and teaching interests lie broadly in the field of constitutional and administrative law, EU Law and constitutional theory. He has written on a number of issues, primarily on constitutional principles, the European context in which public law develops and the balance of competence between the European Union and the Member States.

Theodore has previously taught at the University College London and the University of Surrey. He has been a visiting professor at various institutions and a research fellow, most recently at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London and the Centre for European Law at Kings College London. He advised the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons and acted consultant for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office during the Government's Balance of Competence Review prior to the 2016 UK-EU referendum. He has also undertaken twice (in 2014 and 2018) research on the constitutional challenges in the European Monetary Union funded by the European Central Bank. Theodore is currently senior editor of the Nordic Journal of European Law based at Lund University's Faculty of Law.

Theodore is the author of three monographs. His first book entitled 'Division of Powers in EU Law' was quoted by Advocate General Tanchev of the Court of Justice of the EU in Case C-414/16 Egenberger (2017) concerning the extent to which occupational requirements of religious organisations may be judicially reviewed. His most recent book on the 'Rule of Law in the European Union' has been reviewed in the European Human Rights Law Review (2018), the European Law Review (2019) and Public Law (2019) where it has been described as 'a fundamental doctrinal input to the dialectic exercise surrounding rule of law debates'.

Theodore is currently working on a new monograph entitled 'The UK Constitution and Foreign Affairs' which will be published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. The aim of the book is to explore the constitutional limits to executive power in the conduct of foreign policy. He is also working on a piece about judicial independence in the UK after Brexit which follows up from his work as national rapporteur for the UK at the congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE 2021) on the role of national courts in the EU legal order.