Anthony Arnull

Anthony "Tony" Arnull KC (Hon) is a British legal scholar specialising in EU law and holds the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham's Law School.

Professor Anthony Arnull KC (Hon)
Academic background
Education	University of Sussex (BA) University of Leicester (PhD)
Thesis	The impact on the individual of the general principles of the law of the European Economic Community (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Alan Dashwood[1]
Academic work
Institutions	University of Birmingham
Website	https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/arnull-anthony.aspx

Early life and education

Arnull studied a BA in Law at the University of Sussex and at the Institut d'études européennes [fr], Université libre de Bruxelles. He later qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales within a Magic Circle law firm.^[2] He then received a PhD from the University of Leicester.^[2]

Career and research

1990

Arnull wrote The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual in 1990, assessing the impact of the European Court of Justice. In a review, Lewis outlined:

"It must also be said that the discussion is certainly thorough and scholarly and Arnull makes thought-provoking observations on the case law."

^[3]

2003

Arnull provided a memorandum to the UK's House of Lords after being asked to comment on the new roles the European Court of Justice would play in the Treaty of Nice^[4]

2010

Arnull contributed to Channel 4's FactCheck on the Lord Pearson's claim: "Most of our national law is now made in Brussels" on Sky (6 April 2010)^[5]

2017

In 2017, Arnull published European Union law: a very short introduction, a book aimed at the general public to introduce the laws of the European Union, within the popular a very short introduction book series from Oxford University Press.^[6][7]

Editor

Arnull is a consultant editor on the European Law Journal^[8]

Honours

In 2024, Arnull was made an honorary King's Counsel, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on European Union Law, which, the Ministry of Justice noted, "is widely respected and has had a significant impact on legislation and case law."^[9]

Publications

Books

• European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction (2017)^[10]
• The European Union and its Court of Justice (2006)^[11]
• The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (1990).
• The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (2015).^[12]