Post:	Professor of European Law
Other posts:	Director of Taught Programmes (Lps School)
Location:	Friston Building FR-238
Email:	M.G.Ross@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7710
UK:	(01273) 877710
International:	+44 1273 877710

Biography

Malcolm Ross joined SLS as Professor of European Law in February 2000 and was Head of Department 2003-2007. As well as writing widely on EU legal matters he has acted as a consultant to the European Commission and was  involved in the training of judges and senior lawyers in Poland and Slovenia in EU state aid law as part of the preparatory arrangements in those States for joining the Union. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Role

Professor of European Law; Director of Taught Programmes (School of Law, Politics and Sociology)

Research

European Union Law generally, but with special reference to the interface of market and social objectives. He has written widely on state aid, the regulation of public services and Union citizenship. He is particularly interested in services of general economic interest (SGEIs) and the extent to which they are subject to the competition and free movement rules of the European Union. His current research addresses more theoretical concerns in relation to the emerging significance of solidarity as a paradigm in EU law and he is writing a monograph for OUP in this area (2010).

Recent and forthcoming papers:

April 2008, Potsdam, Germany: 'Promoting Solidarity? The triangle of States, public service providers and EU citizens'.

May 2008, University of Sussex Workshop (Modern Law Review Seminar Series): 'Solidarity in the EU - an emerging constitutional paradigm?'

Feb 2009: Oxford University European Law Group: 'Solidarity in the EU'.

Oct 2009: 'Citizenship meets solidarity - a troubled relationship?' Sussex University citizenship and democracy research theme conference day.

Oct 2009: 'The Lisbon Treaty's approach to SGIs', 12th annual conference of CEEP (European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public services), Brussels.

Dec 2009: Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Healthcare and Trade, Erasmus University Rotterdam: 'Healthcare, Citizenship and Solidarity in the EU'.

 

Teaching

• Undergraduate LLB: Law and Policy of the EU
• Postgraduate LLM European Law core course: Contemporary Issues in European Law
• Postgraduate LLM option:  EU Competition Law
• MPhil/PhD supervision: currently 3 students working on the following topics: EU financial services regulation; competition law in the EU and Egypt; EU constitutional values.

Malcolm welcomes applications to pursue doctoral research in EU law generally, but particularly in relation to all aspects of competition law, state aid, public services, the single market, EU citizenship, social solidarity, the principle of effectiveness and constitutional development. If you have an idea for a European law research thesis Malcolm will be pleased to discuss it with you - please email him an outline of your ideas in the first instance.

Publications

• M.G.Ross, 'Solidariteà: un nuova paradigma costituzionale per l'Unione europea? (2009) Rivista del Diritto della Sicurezza Socuiale 239-266
• M.G.Ross, 'The value of solidarity in European public services law' in M.Krajewski, U. Neergaard & J van de Gronden (eds) The Changing Legal Framework for Services of General Interest in Europe: Between Competition and Solidarity (T M C Asser Press, 2009), 81-99
• M.G.Ross, 'A healthy approach to services of general economic interest? The BUPA judgment of the Court of First Instance' (2009) 34 European Law Review 127-140
• M.G.Ross, 'Promoting Solidarity: From Public Services to a European Model of Competition?' (2007) 44 Common Market Law Review 1057-1080
• M.G.Ross, 'Effectiveness in the European legal order(s): Beyond Supremacy to Constitutional Proportionality?' (2006) 31 European Law Review 474-496
• A.M.Arnull, A.A.Dashwood, M.Dougan, M.G.Ross, E.Spaventa, D.A.Wyatt, Wyatt & Dashwood's European Union Law (5th ed. Sweet & Maxwell, 2006) 
• M.G.Ross, 'The Europeanization of Public Services Supervision: Harnessing Competition and Citizenship?' (2004) 23 Yearbook of European Law 489-514
• M.G.Ross, 'State aid: decentralisation, effectiveness and modernisation - contradictions in terms?' in A.Biondi, P. Eeckhout & J.Flynn (eds) The Law of State Aid in the European Union (Oxford University Press 2004) 85-101