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
Lecturer in EU Law & Theory, School of Law, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus), 2020 – present
Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, 2016-2020
Memberships (Academic/Professional)
Research Interests
My research interests are in legal and political theory and EU Law. 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, justified lawbreaking, and civil disobedience.
Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)
Teaching and Course Leadership
- LLB Module Leader: Comparative Law, EU Law, Thinking and Arguing the Law, Student Initiated Module
- LLB Module Team member: Land Law, Classical Foundations of Modern Law, Mooting and Legal Debating, EU Single Market Law
- LLM Modules Team member: Advanced Legal Systems, Dissertation
- LLM Module Leader: EU Constitutional Law and Governance
Administrative Roles
Present Roles
Research Fellow for the Jean Monnet Module EU-POP (2019-22) https://eupopulism.eu/
Researcher for the Rule of Law Monitoring Mechanism https://lawblog.uclancyprus.ac.cy/rolmm/
Past Positions
Executive Director for Queen Mary’s ‘Centre for Law Democracy and Society’
Selective Publications
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 (submitted) ‘Non-violence, Communication, and Civil Disobedience’ Jurisprudence
Andreas Marcou (2019) ‘Review Essay: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should be Uncivil’, Modern Law Review DOI. 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
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 Invited speaker, ‘Obedience and Disobedience in Plato’s Crito and the Apology’ POLEMO Workshop at the Central European University, Hungary.
September 2018 Presenter, ‘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
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 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
- Executive Director for Queen Mary’s ‘Centre for Law Democracy and Society’
