John Cotter

Dr. John Cotter is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Keele University, where he joined in 2019 and was promoted in 2023. He previously held lecturing positions at Maastricht University (Netherlands) and Hasselt University (Belgium) from 2017–2019, and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. His qualifications include a BCL (Law and German), LLB (Hons) from University College Cork, a PhD in Law from Trinity College Dublin, and barrister qualifications from Ireland and England & Wales (unregistered).

• Research Focus: European Union constitutional institutional law, American legal realism (particularly Karl Llewellyn's work), and legal certainty in preliminary reference procedures.
• Publications: Authored the 2022 monograph Legal Certainty in the Preliminary Reference Procedure and contributed to journals such as the European Law Review and Common Market Law Review.
• Teaching: Specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, and European Union law at the undergraduate level.

His recent scholarship examines EU democracy, accountability of office-holders, and impeachment mechanisms, with upcoming 2025 publications addressing EU institutional legitimacy and impeachment as a legal concept. He also explores intersections between legal realism and procedural stability in EU courts.

John Cotter welcomes PhD supervision in EU institutional and procedural law. No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. No details on labs or teams are available.