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Dr Oliver Garner

Lecturer

The City Law School Academic law programmes

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Dr Oliver Garner is a Lecturer in Law at City Law School, City St George's, University of London from September 2025. He previously held positions at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Central European University Democracy Institute. He completed his LL.M. and Ph.D. at the European University Institute and holds a BA Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Oliver's fields of research are EU law and UK constitutional law and he teaches Public Law, EU Law, and Immigration Law in the City Law School. His first monograph 'Constitutional Disintegration and Disruption: Withdrawal and Opt-Outs from the European Union' was published in May 2025 by Oxford University Press. He has published articles, book reviews, and editorials in the European Law Review, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Perspectives on Federalism, Les Cahiers Portalis, and the European Journal of Legal Studies.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D., European University Institute, Italy, September 2016 - July 2020
  • LL.M., European University Institute, Italy, 2015 - September 2016
  • BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, October 2011 - June 2015

Employment

  • Visiting Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, November - September 2025
  • Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2025 - present
  • Managing Editor, Review of Democracy and CEU DI Working Paper series, Central European University, Hungary, January 2021 - May 2025
  • Research Leader, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, United Kingdom, September 2019 - May 2025

Publications

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Books (2)

  • Garner, O. (2025). Constitutional Disintegration and Disruption Withdrawal and Opt-Outs from the European Union. Oxford: Oxoford University Press. ISBN 9780198914105.
  • Garner, O. (2025). Constitutional Disintegration and Disruption. Oxford University PressOxford. ISBN 9780198914105.

Chapters (2)

  • Garner, O. (2022). Does Member State withdrawal automatically extinguish EU citizenship? In Kostakopoulou, D. and Thym, D. (Eds.), Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy Navigating Challenges and Crises (pp. 201-223). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788972901.
  • Garner, O. (2021). Justice and Home Affairs. The Law & Politics of Brexit: Volume III (pp. 157-178). Oxford University PressOxford. ISBN 0192848461.

Journal articles (7)

  • Garner, O. (2023). Le monarque   : gardien silencieux de la Constitution du Royaume-Uni ? Les Cahiers Portalis, N° 11(1), pp. 191-200. doi:10.3917/capo.011.0191

    [publisher’s website]

  • Garner, O. (2021). Seven Reforms to Article 50 TEU. European Law Review, 46(6), pp. 784-800
  • Garner, O. (2021). Book review of 'Brexit and the Future of the European Union: The Case for Constitutional Reforms by Federico Fabbrini, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 160pp. inc. index, hardback, £80, ISBN: 9780198871262. European Law Review, 46(4), pp. 568-570
  • GARNER, O. (2018). The Existential Crisis of Citizenship of the European Union:The Argument for an Autonomous Status. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 20, pp. 116-146. doi:10.1017/cel.2018.6

    [publisher’s website]

  • Garner, O. (2017). Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 15(3), pp. 866-872. doi:10.1093/icon/mox064

    [publisher’s website]

  • Garner, O. (2017). Editorial: The Borders of European Integration on Trial in the Courts of the Member States. European Journal of Legal Studies, 9(2), pp. 1-14
  • Garner, O. (2017). THE BORDERS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON TRIAL IN THE MEMBER STATES: DANSK INDUSTRI, MILLER, AND TARICCO. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, 9(2), pp. 1-12

Working papers (7)