Clemens Rieder

Clemens has published in the field of citizenship, solidarity and health care. Currently, he is researching the role of boundaries in their (trans)national context. In his research he is interested in legal doctrinal but also political theory.

Find pdf versions of my papers on SSRN or on Researchgate

Clemens is a Lecturer in EU Law. He studied Law at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and holds a Mag.iur and a doctorate from there. He then completed a Mag.phil in political science also from Innsbruck.

He further completed an LLM from the University of Notre Dame (USA) and a PhD from the University of Reading. While pursuing his PhD at Reading, Clemens was awarded a scholarship as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

In Austria, Clemens clerked for a Court of First Instance (Bezirksgericht) and Court of a Appeal (Landesgericht) in the areas of private law (in particular contract law and employment law). He also worked for a Regional Council in Austria (Bezirkshauptmannschaft) in the field of environmental law. Before moving to the UK in 2005, he was an intern for a political party in the European Parliament.

Clemens started his full-time academic employment as a Teaching Fellow at Reading, before moving to Lancaster where he took up the post as a Faculty Academic Fellow (Lectureship) in Law. During summer 2013, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (Austria), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. 

In 2016, Clemens received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Clemens regularly reviews applications for funders, papers for journals and book proposals for publishers.

UG Teaching

• EU Law (Levels 1-3; Module Coordinator for more than 300 students)
• Current Issues in EU Internal Market Law (optional module)

Postgraduate Teaching

• EU Constitutional Law (MLaw; Module Coordinator)

• EU Law (JD)