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Professor of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Member, CSaP Management Committee
Catherine Barnard, FBA, FLSW, FRSA is Professor of European law and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies. She is the author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2025, 8th ed), and (with Peers ed), European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2023, 4th ed, 5th ed due in 2026). She has also written (with Costello and Fraser Butlin), Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, the Town, the Street, (Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2024), an innovative work exploring the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK post Brexit and the issues face securing their rights which won the UACES book of the year which won UACES book of the year in 2025. She has just submitted the manuscript for Reimagining Employment Dispute Resolution (with Sarah Fraser Butlin and Maayan Menashe). She is a member of the European Commission funded European Labour Law Network (ELLN). She is also a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE) (http://ukandeu.ac.uk/) project (UKCE). This is an authoritative, non-partisan think-tank which does research and provides information about all aspects of Brexit.
Catherine’s work focuses on the legal issues around migration, together with the legal and constitutional issues associated with Brexit, in particular examining the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Part of UKCE’s remit is to make that information accessible to the general public. She has appeared on the main media channels - BBC, ITV and Sky - as well as some of the more specialist programmes such as Law in Action, Woman's Hour, Question Time, Any Questions and the Briefing Room. She has also written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has given evidence to numerous select committees on the legal issues connected with Brexit. She has her own podcast, 2903cb, and she blogs on Brexit and related issues, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/.
