Dr. Vilija Vėlyvytė

Biography

Vilija Vėlyvytė is a Lecturer in EU Law at King’s College London, having previously served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading and as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford. In Oxford, she was involved in lectureships focused on EU Law and Constitutional Law and participated in the teaching team for the Regulation of the Internal Market course on the BCL/MJur programme. She also led seminars for the Law and Public Policy MPP degree at the Blavatnik School of Government. Prior to this, she was an Emile Noël Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law. Vilija earned her DPhil in EU Law from the University of Oxford and a Magister Juris degree with Distinction, along with an MPhil in Law, supported by the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship. Her research is concentrated in EU Public Law, specifically in areas like Federalism, the balance of competences and powers within the EU, and the intersection of the EU’s internal market law with social policy and fundamental rights, particularly socio-economic rights in the context of the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory framework. Vilija's publications include her monograph 'Judicial Authority in EU Internal Market Law: Implications for the Balance of Competences and Powers', which received the SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Early Career Legal Scholarship (Second Prize, 2024). Currently, she is available for PhD supervision.

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