Catherine Sarah Barnard, is a British academic, who specialises in

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

, employment, and

competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, ind ...

law. She has been Professor of European Union and Employment Law at the

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since 2008. She has been a

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since 1996, and is the college's Senior Tutor.

Education

Barnard read law at

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of al ...

(

MA Cantab In the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts are promoted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts (MA) on application after six or seven years' seniority as members of the university (including years as an un ...

), and the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

(

LLM A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: ' or ') is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject. In mos ...

). She earned a

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(PhD) from the

Career

Barnard was elected a

of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1996. She was appointed Reader in European Union Law in the

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on 1 October 2004. On 1 October 2008, she was awarded a chair as Professor of European Union and Employment Law.

Selected works

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References

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