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The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for EU Integration & Citizens' Rights

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for EU Integration and Citizens' Rights (EUICR) at University College Cork explores ways to address the EU's increasing legitimacy crisis through focusing on individuals in society in their status as citizens. EUICR asks how effective activation of citizens' rights within the EU, its neighbourhood and through its global partnerships can ensure the EU's future legitimacy. EU studies researchers with disciplinary focus in legal studies, political science and economics explore the continuing effectiveness of free-movement and anti-discrimination rights within the EU in the post-COVID crisis, the extent to which these rights are extended to citizens of Northern Ireland and the Ukraine as examples of conflictive societies in the EU’s Western and Eastern neighbourhood, how citizens’ engagement with sports can or cannot be furthered through EU rights, whether the Citizens' Initiative truly enables citizens to initiate the generation of rights, and how the EU promotes economic rights in its free trade agreements and human rights in its relations with China. 

Project Team, Staff and Experts

The project is led by Dr Luigi Lonardo. The Project Operational Team (POT) manages the project, consisting of the PI, the project's research assistant and the school of law's marketing and communication officer. 

Name School Research Interests Work Package
Dr Luigi Lonardo School of Law, University College Cork EU External Relations Law, EU Foreign Affairs 
  • WP4
Dr Robert Butler Cork University Business School, University College Cork

Institutional Economics, Economics of Sport

  • WP2
Professor Andrew Cottey  Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork International Relations, International Security 
  • WP3
Dr Stephen Coutts Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh European Law, Citizenship
  • WP2
Mr Tadhg Crowley Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork Communities, Viewpoints, Creativity, Role of the Museum
  • WP5

Ms Aoife Guinee (POT)

School of Law, University College Cork

International Marketing

  • WP5
Dr Niall Duggan Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork Changing Roles of Emerging Powers in Global Affairs, Global Economic Governance, Existing and Emerging Powers 
  • WP4
Professor Fiona Kearney Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork Relationship between Contemporary Art Practice with Research Directions and Academic Contexts 
  • WP5
Ms Romane Lieber (POT) School of Law, University College Cork  Socio-legal Studies, Gender and the Law, EU Law, Human Rights, Migration
  • WPs 1, 5
Dr Mary C. Murphy Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork EU and Northern Ireland Politics
  • WP3
Dr Seán Ó Conaill School of Law, University College Cork Constitutional Law, the Law of Sport, Minority Language Rights, Language Law, Irish Studies 
  • WP2
Dr Theresa Reidy Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork Political Economy, Democratic Reform, Election Integrity in Developing Countries
  • WP2
Professor Dagmar Schiek  Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin EU law in the EU integration project, economic and social integration, integration through rights
  • WPs  2,3

 

EU Integration and Citizens' Rights

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

Áras na Laoi, School of Law, University College Cork, T12 T656

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