Professor
MA (Oxford), LLM (Virginia), Solicitor of the Supreme Court

Email: robin.white@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2374

Robin C A White has been a Professor of Law since 1988, and a member of the academic staff since 1973. He holds a part-time judicial office as a Judge of the Upper Tribunal, where he is assigned to the Administrative Appeals Chamber. He has served as Head of Department (1987-90), Dean of the Faculty (1990-3), Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1993-7), Public Orator (1998-2001), Dean of Law (1999-2003), and Head of Department (2005-8). He was editor or joint editor of the European Law Review from 1987 until the end of 2002, and a member of its Editorial Board until the end of 2007. He is a member of the School's Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI).

Research Interests

European Union Law, especially free movement of persons, including co-ordination of social security; the European Convention on Human Rights.

Selected Publications

• 'A New Era for Human Rights in the European Union?', (2011) 30 Yearbook of European Law 100-130; doi: 10.1093/yel/yer003
• (with D Bonner, I Hooker, R Poynter, N Wikeley and P Wood), Social Security Legislation 2011/12: Volume I: Non Means Tested Benefits and Employment and Support Allowance, (Sweet & Maxwell, London 2011); and Supplement (Sweet & Maxwell, London 2012).
• (with M Rowland), Social Security Legislation 2011/12. Volume III: Administration, Adjudication and the European Dimension, (Sweet & Maxwell, London 2011); and Supplement (Sweet & Maxwell, London 2012).
• 'Social Solidarity and Social Security' in A Arnull and others (eds), A Constitutional Order of States? Essays in EU Law in Honour of Alan Dashwood, (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2011), at 301-19.
• 'Revisiting free movement of workers' (2010) 33 Fordham International Law Journal 1564-87.
• 'The new European social security regulations in context' (2010) 17 Journal of Social Security Law 144-63.
• (with C Ovey), The European Convention on Human Rights, (5th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010)
• (with I Boussiakou), 'Voices from the European Court of Human Rights', (2009) 27 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 167-89.
• (with I Boussiakou), 'Separate Opinions in the European Court of Human Rights', (2009) 9 Human Rights Law Review 37-60.
• The Strasbourg Perspective and its Effect on the Court of Justice: Is Mutual Respect Enough?' in A Arnull, P Eeckhout and T Tridimas (eds) Continuity and Change in EU Law. Essays in Honour of Sir Francis Jacobs, (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008) 139-56.

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