Dr Mel Kenny
Senior Lecturer
Law
Personal statement
Mel has a range of research and teaching experience in Contract, Commercial, Consumer and EU law and has particular interests in issues of Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Private law in general and Comparative law. In Strathclyde Mel leads on the Law of Business Associations and co-directs the postgraduate Construction law programme. He is a member of the Strathclyde Centre for Antitrust Law and Empirical Study (SCALES).
Mel has been Marie Curie Fellow in both Bremen (2005-7, Europeanisation and Suretyships' Law) and Durham/Leeds (2008-11, Europeanisation of Consumer Protection and Private law). He was, previously, SNF Fellow in Lucerne (2001-5) and, subsequently, Schumann Fellow in Muenster (2018). In the UK he has also held posts in Leicester (2010-12). De Montfort (2012-14) and Exeter (2014-16).
Mel is an External Examiner at the University of London (QMUL).
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