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Dr. Niall O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School, University of Essex, specializing in EU employment law and fundamental rights. Holding a PhD from Cambridge, LLM from College of Europe, and LLB from Trinity College Dublin, his research examines intersections of EU-derived social rights with domestic employment law, particularly post-Brexit.
Key research areas include: the legal value of 'freedom to conduct business' in the EU Charter, Brexit's impact on employment rights and EU citizenship, and normative tensions between economic freedoms and social protections. His scholarship frequently addresses constitutional implications of Brexit for rights protection frameworks.
O'Connor's publications explore evolving hierarchies between business freedoms and worker protections in EU/UK law, with recent focus on post-Brexit dispute resolution, quasi-citizenship concepts, and gig economy challenges. Methodologically, his work combines doctrinal analysis with constitutional theory.
He previously supervised EU/labor law at Cambridge and co-edited the Cambridge International Law Journal. He welcomes PhD candidates in EU law, Brexit impacts, citizenship, and fundamental rights.
