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Dr Alun Gibbs LLB (Wales), M.Res and PhD (EUI), Barrister (Lincoln's Inn)

Associate Professor in Public Law, Director of the Centre for Law, Policy and Society

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Dr Alun Gibbs is a Associate Professor in Public Law and Director of the Centre for Law, Policy and Society within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton.

Our undergraduate programmes offer a vibrant culture of partnership and collaboration between students and the academic community through research led teaching

I joined Southampton Law School in 2009 following the completion of my doctorate at the European University in Florence. I was appointed as City Solicitor’s Trust Lecturer in Administrative and Constitutional Law.

In 2012 I was made Senior Lecturer in Public Law.

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Research interests

My principal area of research is in the field of constitutional theory. In 2011 I published a monograph with Ashgate based on doctoral work looking at the role of constitutional theory in understanding the emerging policy area of internal security in the EU.

Currently, my work involves advancing a theoretical understanding of constitutional adjudication based upon hermeneutic philosophy.

I am also currently engaged in a project looking at the relationship between transitional justice and constitutional law with the particular focus on empirical work looking at the role of constitutional courts and their legal reasoning in moments of constitutional transformation.

I am currently the admissions tutor for the PhD and MPhil programmes in the Law School and also I have responsibility for developing internationalisation links with particular focus on Canada.

Articles

Gibbs, A. (2018). End of the conversation or recasting constitutional dialogue. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 31(1), 127–143. DOI: 10.1007/s11196-017-9528-7
Gibbs, A. (2017). Theorizing transformative constitutional change and the experience of Latin American constitutionalism. Law, Culture and the Humanities.
Gibbs, A. (2016). The economic crisis and the rule of law in Europe. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 8(2), 323-336. DOI: 10.1007/s40803-016-0040-z
Gibbs, A. (2015). The horizons of the constitution: Politeia, the political regime and the good. Law and Critique, 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-015-9166-8
Gibbs, A. H. (2013). Paths for constitutional thinking beyond the state? Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studiess, 14, 209-241.
Gibbs, A. H. (2011). Reasoned 'balance' in Europe's area of freedom, security and justice. European Law Journal, 17(1), 121-137. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0386.2010.00541.x

Book

Gibbs, A. H. (2011). Constitutional Life and Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. (Applied Legal Philosophy). Ashgate.

Book Chapters

Gibbs, A. H. (2013). Public foundation as the striving for security. In M. Fichera, & J. Kremer (Eds.), Law and Security in Europe: Reconsidering the Security Constitution (pp. 113-126). Cambridge, GB: Intersentia.
Gibbs, A. (2012). Taking agency seriously: an examination of legal integration and constitutionalism. In A. Daniel (Ed.), Integration Through Law Revisited (pp. 47-60). (Edinburgh/Glasgow Law and Society Series). Farnham, GB: Ashgate.

LLB: Constitutional and Administrative Law LAWS1013 (Coordinator Semester1);
Jurisprudence (second semester) LAWS3066;
Constitutional Law of Canada Laws 3099 (JD Pathway Coordinator).

Dr Alun Gibbs
Faculty of Business, Law and Art, Building 4 University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK

Room Number:4/3017

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