Dr Mel Kenny
Senior Lecturer
Law
Personal statement
Mel specialises in Private law, Company & Commercial law as well as Consumer law and EU law. His research has been published in leading journals including: Modern Law Review, Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Business Law, European Law Review, Columbia Journal of European Law and New Zealand Universities Law Review.
Mel maintains links to Civil law jurisdictions: publishing in Europarecht, Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego and Jurista Vards amongst others; and promoting Strathclyde students' European mobility opportunities within the Erasmus and School LML programmes.
In Strathclyde Mel teaches Business Law, Law of Business Associations and Consumer Law and Policy at UG level. At PG level he teaches on International Business Law, Business Law & Human Rights, Dispute Resolution and Law of the Construction Industry.
Mel is an External Examiner at the University of London.
Upcoming presentation: Threats to Consumer Protection in the Online Space, Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2024 (more to follow).
Publications
- The Windsor Framework : finding a new way forward for EU/UK relations?
- Kenny Mel
- 2023 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.17176/20230503-131533-0
- Das 2022 Northern Ireland Protocol Bill : Chronik eines angekündigten EU/UK Handelskrieges?
- Kenny Mel
- Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien - ZEuS Vol 26, pp. 57-96 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.5771/1435-439X-2023-1-57
- Descending the circles of "Brexit" : toxicity of future EU-UK relations and the road to EU re-accession?
- Kenny Mel
- Columbia Journal of European Law Vol 28, pp. 36-100 (2022)
- Brexit, the 'unwritten' constitution and the populist policy agenda of the elective dictatorship
- Kenny Mel, Cardesa-Salzmann Antonio
- El Brexit y sus Consecuencias (2022) (2022)
- Der inszenierte „Brexit“ II : Endloses Feilschen und verfassungsrechtliche Zerreißprobe?
- Kenny Mel
- Europarecht Vol 56, pp. 375-415 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.5771/0531-2485-2021-4-375
- Those magnificent men in their unifying machines : exploring the wreckage of the unification initiative in European Private Law
- Kenny Mel
- Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law (2019) (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431271
Professional Activities
- Post-Brexit Policy Agenda, the “unwritten” UK Constitution and the Elective Dictatorship
- Speaker
- 31/5/2021
- Trends in Consumer Credit and Financial Transactions: Anarchy in the UK?
- Speaker
- 21/1/2020
- Managing Brexit(?)
- Speaker
- 10/4/2018
- Unfair Terms, Charges and Penalties: Post-Brexit Reassertion of Freedom of Contract?
- Speaker
- 18/12/2017
- Unfair Terms, Bank Charges, Penalty Clauses and Articles 41 and 47 CFR
- Speaker
- 22/11/2017
- Norbert Reich Memorial Seminar
- Organiser
- 29/6/2017