Senior Lecturer in Law
I have joined the University of Bedfordshire from private practice, having worked at a number of well-known law firms in Brussels, specialising in EU law and human rights. I have also worked at the European Commission and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
I have been involved in a wide range of cases, including several before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, concerning such topics as anti-dumping, IP, contract, tax, consumer protection, and competition. Two of these cases have been reported in the European Court Reports.
While obtaining my PhD at Kings College London in 2011, I acted as assistant to the Head of Learning, with particular responsibility for designing a new Legal Method module for the first year LL.B.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) - Hispanic Studies - University of Manchester
- LL.M. - European Law - University College London
- PhD - Law - Kings College London
Research Interests
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The European internal market and the four freedoms, in particular:-
- The free movement of goods, the Distance Selling Directive, online pharmacies;
- The free movement of persons, asylum, immigration, citizenship, EU fundamental rights, visa policy, external borders, Schengen;
- Free movement issues as they apply, or might apply, in “Cyberspace”;
- Discrimination on grounds of nationality, transnational solidarity, equality of member states, protection of minority languages.
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EU constitutional and institutional law, in particular:-
- The work of the European Court of Justice, and specifically admissibility/ locus standi issues;
- The history and development of EU law;
- EU equality law;
- EU critical theory;
- Constitutional norms of the EU;
- EU law-making and legislative procedure;
- Implementation/ misimplementation of EU law at national level;
- The impact of UK law on EU law.
- European criminal law, and in particular judicial protection within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
- The international protection of human rights, in particular the right to property and nullum crimen sine lege.
Research Supervision
Richard is happy to consider supervising PhD candidates in any of his areas of research interest, as listed above.
Teaching Expertise
- EU law
- E-Commerce law
- European criminal law
External Roles
- A Qualified Solicitor
- A non-practising member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn; have given lectures under the auspices of the Academy of European Law to senior civil servants in Malta and Croatia on the subject of data protection
- A member of the Editorial Board of the New Journal of European Criminal Law
Selected Publications
I have published articles in a number of leading journals, including the Common Market Law Review, as well as contributing chapters to books on employment law (from the EU perspective) and police and judicial cooperation.
- Lang, R., “Right end, wrong means” (2012) 162 NLJ 291; this article was first published in New Law Journal www.newlawjournal.co.uk, and can be viewed here -
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- Lang, R., and Heppinstall, A., “A European Divorce” The European Advocate, Spring 2002, page 10
- Lang, R., Note on Case C-322/01, Deutscher Apothekerverband eV v 0800 DocMorris NV and Jacques Waterval, 42 Common Market Law Review (2005), 189
- Lang, R., and Renouf, M., ”European Union” in van Emden, Heuvel and Labat-Oliveau (Eds.), How to Hire & Fire in 76 Jurisdictions (Kluwer, 2005)
- Lang, R., Book Review: K.P.E. Lasok, T. Millett and A. Howard, Judicial Control in the EU: procedures and principles, 42 Common Market Law Review (2005), 1545
- Lang, R., “The Free (?) Movement of Convicted Persons in the EU”, Journal of European Criminal Law, Vol 1, Issue 3, Spring 2007, 9
- Lang, R., “Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights affecting criminal law/criminal procedure” Journal of European Criminal Law, Vol 1, Issue 3, Spring 2007, 71, and every issue since
- Lang, R., “Third pillar developments from a practitioner’s perspective”, in Guild and Geyer (Eds.), Security versus Justice? Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union (Ashgate, 2008).
- Lang, R., “Unlocking the First Protocol: Protection of property and the European Court of Human Rights” 29 Human Rights Law Journal 30 November 2008, 205
Contact Details
T: +44 (0)1582 743141
E: richard.lang@beds.ac.uk
