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Vilija Vėlyvytė

Vilija Vėlyvytė

Areas of interest

Vilija specialises in EU and public law. Her research interests include: federalism and the balance of competences and powers in the EU; the intersection between the EU’s internal market and social policy; and fundamental rights, with a focus on socio-economic rights.

Background

Vilija joined the School of Law as Lecturer in Law in September 2023. She was previously British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, where she also held the position as a Lecturer in EU Law and Constitutional Law. She also led seminars in Law and Public Policy for students reading for the MPP degree at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Prior to that, Vilija was Emile Noël Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law.

Academic qualifications

Vilija holds a doctorate in EU Law from the University of Oxford, where she also graduated from the Magister Juris (Distinction) and MPhil in Law degrees, all three supported by the highly competitive Weidenfeld Scholarship. During her doctorate, she was awarded Michigan Grotius Research Fellowship and spent a semester at the University of Michigan. 

 

Vilija completed Bachelor of Laws and Master’s in International Law degrees at the Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania, where she was ranked top of the class for both degrees. During this time, Vilija also studied at Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III) University (France) and Ghent University(Belgium). After graduation, Vilija held a position as a Lecturer of International Law at Mykolas Romeris University and later worked as a stagiaire at the Legal Service of the European Commission. 

Awards and honours

Vilija’s recent monograph Judicial Authority in EU Internal Market Law: Implications for the Balance of Competences and Powers (Hart Publishing 2022), funded by the British Academy, has received the Recognition Award from Oxford University Faculty of Law and was also shortlisted for UACES Best Book Prize 2023 for the most substantial and original contribution to knowledge in contemporary European studies.

Books

2022 V Vėlyvytė, Judicial Authority in EU Internal Market Law: Implications for the Balance of Competences and Powers (Oxford: Hart Publishing) 312 pp.

  • Finalist for UACES Best Book Prize 2023 for the most substantial and original contribution to knowledge in contemporary European studies

Journal Articles

2023 V Vėlyvytė, ‘Competence Creep in EU Free Movement Case Law’, forthcoming in European Law Review

2016 V Vėlyvytė, ‘The Power to Shape the Internal Market: Implications of CJEU Case Law for the EU’s Institutional Balance’ 12 Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy 25–47

2015 V Vėlyvytė, ‘Right to Strike in the EU after Accession to the ECHR: Identifying Conflict and Achieving Coherence’ 15 (1) Human Rights Law Review 73–100

Contributions to Books

2024 V Vėlyvytė, ‘Judicial Authority’, forthcoming in S Garben, L Gormley (eds), Oxford Encyclopedia of EU law (Oxford: OUP)

2014 V Vėlyvytė, ‘The Right to Strike in the EU after Accession to the ECHR: A Practical Assessment’ in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds) EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 75–94

Open Access Conference Papers

2019 V Vėlyvytė, ‘Are Social Rights “Rights”? – A Reply to C Barnard’ (European Centre of Expertise in the Field of Labour Law Annual Conference: The Charter of Fundamental Rights from an EU Labour Law Perspective, European Commission, Brussels), available at dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4274202

2018 V Vėlyvytė, ‘A Constitution with Multiple Judicial Voices: The Challenge of Canon Construction in European Constitutionalism’ (ICONs Annual Conference, Hong Kong), available at ssrn.com/abstract=4332713

Blog Posts

2022 V Vėlyvytė, ‘Does the European Court of Justice Respect the Limits of EU Competence?’ (EU Law Analysis, 18 December 2022), available at http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/12/does-court-of-justice-of-european-union.html

Book Reviews

2023 V Vėlyvytė, Book Review: The Changing European Union: A Critical View on the Role of Law and the Courts, edited by T Capeta, I Goldner Lang & T Perišin (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022), forthcoming European Law Review

Publications