Assistant Professor in Legal Theory

Qualifications

PhD in Law (Queen Mary University of London, 2020)

MA Legal and Political Theory (University College London, 2014)

LLB in Law (Queen Mary University of London, 2013)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Specialisation

Legal Theory, EU Law

Employment Track

Assistant Professor in Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (2024-present)

Lecturer in Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (2023 – 2024)

Lecturer in EU Law & Theory, School of Law, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (2020 – 2023)

Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London (2016-2020)

Memberships (Academic/Professional)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of Cyprus Branch of FiDE (Fédération Internationale de Droit Européen) (2023-present)

Research Interests

My research interests are in legal and political theory. I am particularly interested in theories of democracy and legitimacy at the national and the European level. I am also interested in questions of democratic authority, legitimacy, justified lawbreaking, and civil disobedience.

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership 

UCLan Cyprus, School of Law:

• LLB Course Leader (2024 to present)
• LLB Deputy Course Leader (2022-2024)
• LLB Module Leader (2024): Public Law, Land Law, Classical Foundations of Modern Law, Jurisprudence
• LLM Module Leader (2024): EU Constitutional Law and Governance
• LLM Modules Team member (2024): Advanced Legal Systems, Dissertation

Administrative Roles

Present Roles

UCLan Cyprus: Member of the ASQAC (Academic Standards and Quality Assurance Committee) (2023 to present)

Past Positions

UCLan Cyprus: Member of the RIC (Research and Innovation Committee) (2020-2023)

Research Roles

Project Manager for the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the Rule of Law and European Values CRoLEV (Centre for the Rule of Law and European Values) (2022-2025). Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Project Number: 101047752 https://crolev.eu

• CRoLEV Dashboard (https://crolev.eu/dashboard) and data collection
• Creation and submission of various project deliverables (e.g., research outputs, reports). See for example, https://crolev.eu/publications/
• Responsible for the organisation of CRoLEV events (summer school, research day)
• Editor of the CRoLEV Edited Volume
• Editor for the CRoLEV Working Paper Series

Researcher, PREPARED – Pro-active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework, Coordination and Support Action (2022-2025). Funded by Horizon Europe https://prepared-project.eu/  (through ICLAIM)

• Participation in the ICLAIM team’s work packages, primarily working on fast‐track procedures during crises, and related policy briefs and policy opinions.

Editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Populism, https://lawpop.eu (since 2021)

Past Positions

Researcher, Cyprus Ombudsman – Closed tender, EU Fundamental Rights Expert, (1/3/23-1/5/24)

Research Fellow for the Jean Monnet Module EU-POP (2019-22), School of Law, UCLan Cyprus https://eupopulism.eu/

Executive Director for Queen Mary’s ‘Centre for Law Democracy and Society’, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/research/research-centres/society-democracy-humanities/centre-for-law-democracy-and-society/

Selective Publications 

Katerina Kalaitzaki and Andreas Marcou, ‘Using EU Funds while Upholding and Advancing Fundamental Rights: A Guide to Applying the New Obligatory Charter Conditionality’ Commissioner for the Administration and the Protection of Human Rights (February 2024) (non-peer-reviewed policy paper, equal co-authorship)

Andreas Marcou (2023) ‘The Crisis of Liberal Democracy In Cyprus: Corruption, Democratic Ethos and Political Participation’ in The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Diagnostics and Therapies (Bertrand Mathieu and George Katrougalos, eds) Intersentia

Andreas Marcou (2022) ‘Courts v. the will of the people: the judiciary, democracy, and the populist narrative’ (EU-POP JMMWP 4/2022) https://eupopulism.eu/working-paper-series-4/

Andreas Marcou (2021) ‘Violence, communication, and civil disobedience’, Jurisprudence, 12:4, 491-511, https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2021.1921494

Andreas Marcou (2020) ‘Obedience and Disobedience in Plato’s Crito and the Apology: Anticipating the Democratic Turn of Civil Disobedience’ Journal of Ethics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09346-y

Andreas Marcou (2019) ‘Review Essay: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should be Uncivil’, Modern Law Review https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12452

Eric Heinze and Andreas Marcou (equal co-author), (2016), ‘Review Essay: The Struggle for European Private Law. A Critique of Codification’, Journal of Comparative Law, Vol.10(1)

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

September 2023            Presentation, ‘The struggle for European values: populism, democracy, and the rule of law’ UACES Conference 2023, Belfast, Northern Ireland

June 2022                     Presentation, ‘Illiberal democracy’ in Europe and populist threats to the rule of law’ UK-IVR Conference (hosted online)

November 2021            Invited Speaker, ‘Democracy, the rule of law, and the rise of populism: ‘illiberal democracy’ in Europe, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society, Queen Mary University of London

March 2020                  Invited Speaker, ‘Civil Disobedience and Non-violence’, University of Portsmouth, Law School Research Seminar Series

November 2019            Invited speaker, ‘Non-violence and Civil Disobedience: Perspectives from Criminal Law’ Juris North Discussion Group

July 2019                      Invited speaker, ‘Moral justifications for civil disobedience: Limits of liberalism and the republican alternative’. Workshop on Legal Realism

September 2018            Presentation, ‘Obedience and Disobedience in Plato’s Crito and the Apology’ POLEMO Workshop at the Central European University, Hungary.

September 2018            Presentation, ‘A republican theory of justified disobedience: the example of Plato’s Crito’ MANCEPT Workshop on ‘Legitimate Injustice and Just Resistance’

Selective Research Funding/ Grant Capture

• Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the Rule of Law and European Values CRoLEV (Centre for the Rule of Law and European Values) (2022-2025). Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Project Number: 101047752

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Funding for completion of PhD Law, Queen Mary University of London, 2015-2019

• Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society Conference. Funding for conference on ‘Resisting Democratic Law: Circumstances, Methods, and Examples’ (August 2019)

Other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

• ICLAIM Resident Expert on issues related to law, society, and values (2022 to present)