As a top 10 global university, UCL is one of the world’s foremost centres for teaching and research relevant to Europe, across departments, domains and disciplines.
Our expertise on EU and European politics, policy and law stands out for both its breadth and its depth.
Academics specialising in this field hail from many departments – among them Laws, Political Science, European and International and Political Studies, Economics, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, or the Energy Institute.
See below for a small selection of UCL academics, hailing from different departments and faculties, to get a sense of the breadth and wealth of UCL expertise on European and EU Law, Politics and Policy. Click on academics’ individual profiles to find out more about their work or explore themes and interests that cut across their work.
European & International Social & Political Studies Nationalism, representations of warfare, Europeanism; international relations & WWI; German history
Faculty of Laws Religious freedom, pluralism and democracy; European Convention of Human Rights; comparative methodologies; the role of courts in Europe; French laïcité
Faculty of Laws Law and policy of environmental protection; the effect of Brexit on environmental law; planning law; public participation and environmental democracy
School of European Languages, Culture & Society French & European politics; religions and laïcité; ideologies and French republicanism; French far right; France & the EU
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is one of the UK's largest institutions for research and teaching on Russia, the Baltics, and Central, Eastern and South-East Europe.
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
The School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) offers the widest range of language-based degrees in the UK, with programmes in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Iberian and Latin American Studies as well as cross-cutting degrees. Visit their website.
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
The UCL European Institute has been a proud Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016, a designation that provides funding via the Erasmus+ programme. Our five project strands centre on how intensely held beliefs and new ways of doing politics increasingly challenge the status quo in Europe: