John Cotter

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About John Cotter

John Cotter BCL, LLB (Hons)(NUI), BL (King's Inns), Barrister (unregistered)(Middle Temple), PhD (Dubl), FHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Keele University. John completed a BCL (Law and German) degree at University College Cork in 2004, spending the academic year of 2002/03 at Universität Konstanz, Germany. He subsequently received a first class honours LLB degree from University College Cork in 2005, before being called to the Bar of Ireland in 2006, having graduated from King's Inns with merit. He passed his PhD viva without corrections at Trinity College Dublin in November 2016: his thesis was entitled:"Extra-Legal Steadying Factors in the Article 267 TFEU Preliminary Reference Procedure". John worked as a Research Assistant at the Office of the Attorney General on the Statute Law Revision Project in 2006-2007. He practised at the Irish bar from 2007 to 2011. He lectured and tutored part-time at Dublin City University from 2010-2012, lecturing Advanced European Union Law, Advanced Tort Law, Advanced Contract Law, and Introduction to Law, as well as tutoring Jurisprudence. From January-July 2012, John was a Visiting Scholar at Universität Rostock, Germany. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Middle Temple in July 2014. From January 2013-August 2017, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, where he lectured in, among other subjects, European Union Law and Public Law. Between September 2017 and November 2019, John was a lecturer at the Department of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University and a visiting lecturer at Hasselt University. John's primary research interests are European Union institutional and procedural law. His monograph,'Legal Certainty in the Preliminary Reference Procedure' was published by Elgar in 2022. He has also had articles published in the European Law Review and European Public Law.