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About
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 |
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| Dr Luigi Lonardo | School of Law, University College Cork | EU External Relations Law, EU Foreign Affairs |
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| Dr Robert Butler | Cork University Business School, University College Cork | Institutional Economics, Economics of Sport |
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| Professor Andrew Cottey | Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork | International Relations, International Security |
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| Dr Stephen Coutts | Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh | European Law, Citizenship |
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| Mr Tadhg Crowley | Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork | Communities, Viewpoints, Creativity, Role of the Museum |
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| Ms Aoife Guinee (POT) |
School of Law, University College Cork | International Marketing |
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| 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 |
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| Professor Fiona Kearney | Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork | Relationship between Contemporary Art Practice with Research Directions and Academic Contexts |
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| Ms Romane Lieber (POT) | School of Law, University College Cork | Socio-legal Studies, Gender and the Law, EU Law, Human Rights, Migration |
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| Dr Mary C. Murphy | Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork | EU and Northern Ireland Politics |
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| Dr Seán Ó Conaill | School of Law, University College Cork | Constitutional Law, the Law of Sport, Minority Language Rights, Language Law, Irish Studies |
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| Dr Theresa Reidy | Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork | Political Economy, Democratic Reform, Election Integrity in Developing Countries |
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| Professor Dagmar Schiek | Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin | EU law in the EU integration project, economic and social integration, integration through rights |
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