Lecturer

KUN (St Petersburg), PhD (Leicester)

Email: oxana.golynker@leicester.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2349

Oxana Golynker was appointed Lecturer in Law at Leicester in 2006. Her teaching career began in Russia where she specialised in Employment Law and carried out research at St Petersburg State University. Later, she carried out doctoral research at the University of Leicester. Her PhD project was devoted to free movement of persons in the European Union and lead to the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2003 and publications. She also taught Employment Law, EU Law, Analysing Law, and Learning Legal Skills as a TA at Leicester. Currently, Oxana teaches Employment Law, European Union Law and Analysing Law. Her current research project deals with challenges of the changing paradigm of social solidarity and socio-economic membership in the European Union. She also works as a headnote writer for Common Market Law Reports.

Dr Golynker is convenor of the Employment Law  module.

From January to June 2010, Dr Golynker will be on sabbatical leave working on her book project ‘Social Europe: The Expanding Universe’. From March to May 2010 she is going to work as a Visiting  Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies , European University Institute,  Florence. This project is funded by the British Academy.

Research Interests

European Union Law, in particular, EU citizenship, social solidarity, free movement of persons, and coordination of social security schemes in the European Union.
Employment Law, in particular, family-friendly policy and influence of EU Law on Employment Law in the UK.

Selected Publications

• Ubiquitous Citizens of Europe: The Paradigm of Partial Migration. Intersentia Academic Publishing, 2006.
• “European Union as a Single Working-Living Space: EU Law and New Forms of Intra-Community Migration” in A. Halpin and V. Röben (eds.) Theorising the Global Legal Order, Hart Publishing, 2009, 145-166.
• Annotation of Case C-158/07, Förster, (2009) 6 Common Market Law Review, 2021-2039.
• “Co-ordination of Social Security Schemes  in the European Union: The Rashomon effect in Bosmann” (2009) 2 Journal of Social Security Law, 61-75.
• “Student Loans: the European concept of social justice, according to Bidar” (2006) 31/3 European Law Review, 390-401.
• “Jobseekers’ Rights in the European Union: challenges of changing the paradigm of social solidarity” (2005) 30/1 European Law Review, 111-122.
• “Partial Migration in the EU after the Baumbast Case: bringing social and legal perspectives together” (2004) 15/2, King’s College Law Journal, 367-397.

PhD supervision

Dr. Golynker is happy to supervise doctoral theses in European Union Law and Employment Law.