EU free movement and UK immigration law

Professor Jo Shaw is evaluating the relationship between the European Union free movement rules and United Kingdom immigration law, with a view to understanding how the relationship between these two systems is evolving.

The project will include‘law-in-the-books’ examination of the areas where recent case law has shown frictions and overlap between the two systems. It will also include a 'law-in-practice’ approach, engaging with stakeholders such as lawyers, judges and policy-makers, who are actively involved in the ongoing development of the law.

The project is intended to engage stakeholders actively in the production of the research, not only through a phase of interviewing, but also through their involvement in a dissemination event. The project will produce outputs which are designed to be useful to academics, practitioners, policymakers and those with a more general interest in the development of UK immigration law, and the UK’s adjustment to its EU law obligations.