Dr Melanie Smith
Position: Lecturer
School: Law
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75287
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: SmithM12@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 75287
Point of contact:
Sharon Willicombe
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Introduction
Melanie completed her LLB (Hons) degree in Law at King's College London, then went on to obtain an LLM (with distinction) in Public Law at King's in 2003. She completed her doctorate in European Law at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Before joining Cardiff as a Lecturer in 2006, Melanie worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and then an external tutor for the law school at Manchester University whilst completing her PhD.
Melanie's teaching and research interests include EU law, Administrative Law and Public Law, with a particular interest in the constitutional and administrative development of the EU. Her European work has concentrated upon the theme of 'legitimacy', whilst her domestic work on administrative law is currently focused upon Ombudsmen and access to justice. Building upon and developing empirical research gathered during her PhD, Melanie recently published a monograph entitled Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU (Routledge, 2009). This work has been taken up by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, and as a consequence Melanie has been invited to speak in the Parliament on the topic of enforcement of EU law. She has been appointed as an expert advisor to sit on a working group in the European Parliament on EU administrative law.
Melanie is now developing a new project which aims to bring together work on Ombudsmen (domestic and from across the EU) and the theme of administrative legitimacy.
Monograph
Smith M, Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU, Routledge Cavendish, London (2009) pp256 ISBN 978-0-415-46784-1.
Contribution/Chapter in Edited Work
Smith M, ‘Tracing the development of administrative principles in the EU: a possible new approach to legitimacy?’ in The Treaty of Lisbon and the Future of European Law (Editors M Trybus, L Rubini), Edward Elgar (2012).
Smith M and Shaw J, ‘Changing Polities and Electoral Right: Lithuania's Accession to the EU’ in Migration, Diasporas and Legal Systems in Europe (Editors P Shah and W Menski), Cavendish Publishing (2006), 147-162 ISBN 1859419801.
Journal Paper/Article ORCA
Smith M, ‘Assessing accountability: the European Parliament, the Commission and enforcement of EU obligations’ (2012) (Forthcoming).
Smith M, ‘Developing administrative principles in the EU: a foundational model of legitimacy’ European Law Journal 18 (2012) 569.
Smith M, ‘Inter–institutional dialogue and the establishment of enforcement norms: a decade of financial penalties under Article 228 (now 260 TFEU)’ European Public Law 16 (2010) 547-570.
Smith M, ‘Enforcement, monitoring, verification, outsourcing: the decline and decline of the infringement process’ European Law Review 33 (2008) 777-802.
Official Reports
Smith M, Report for the European Parliament, 'Legitimacy and EU Administrative Law: Future Prospects' (2011).
Smith M, Report for the JURI Committee, European Parliament 'Administrative Procedures of Article 258 TFEU - an academic perspective' (2011).
Smith M, Report to Legal Affairs Committee, European Parliament, 'Reviewing the Pilot Project' (2010).
Book Review
Smith M, Legitimacy in European Administrative Law: Reform and Reconstruction (2011) (ed) Matthias Ruffert, Europa Law Publishing Common Market Law Review 48 (2011)
Selected Publications
- Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU,
Smith M, Routledge Cavendish, London (2009) pp256 ISBN 978-0-415-46784-1 - Enforcement, monitoring, verification, outsourcing: the decline and decline of the infringement process,
Smith M, European Law Review, 33 (2008) 777-802
