J C Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar Scheme
We are proud of our well-established post of JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar scheme, successfully welcoming visitors since 1990.
About the scholarship
The fund was established in honour of Professor Sir John Smith, a renowned authority in the field of English criminal law and a key figure in the establishment and development of the School of Law at the 糖心原创.
Sir John served as the Head of the School of Law from 1956 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986.
JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar 2025/26 - Professor Catherine Barnard
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.
Catherine 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/.
Previous visitors
The Visiting Scholarship allows distinguished scholars to visit the School of Law and engage with both staff and students.
Previous visitors have included:
- Professor Andrea Bianchi ( Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2024/25)
- Professor Antony Duff (University of Stirling, 2019)
- Professor Keith Ewing (King's College London, 2018)
- Professor Hilary Charlesworth (University of Melbourne, 2017)
- Professor William Kovacic (Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission and Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, 2016)
- Professor Sandra Liebenberg (Stellenbosch University, 2015)
- Professor John Gardner (University of Oxford, 2014)
- Professor Peter Watts (University of Auckland, 2013)
- Professor JC McCrudden (Queen's University Belfast, 2012)
- Professor Patricia J. Williams (Columbia Law School, New York, 2011)
- Professor David Feldman (University of Cambridge, 2010)
- (Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 2008)
- Professor Yoram Dinstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2007)
- Professor Allan C. Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, 2006)
- Professor Andrew Ashworth QC (University of Oxford, 2006)
- Professor John Gardner (2004)
- Professor Karen Knop (University of Toronto, 2004)
- (New York University, 2003)
- Professor Katerina Tomasevski (University of Lund, 2001)
- Professor Adrian Zuckerman (University of Oxford, 1998)
- Professor Hazel Genn (University College, London, 1995)
- (University of Oxford, 1994)
- (Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, 1993)
- Jack Beatson (then a member of the Law Commission, 1992)
- Professor Peter Birks (University of Oxford, 1991)
- (University of Cambridge, 1990)