Prof Michelle Everson

Positions held:

Professor of Law, Department of Law

Overview

Overview

Biography

Best known for her work on regulatory agencies ('Independent Agencies: Hierarchy Beaters?,' 1:2 ELJ 1995), capital markets (‘The Regulation of the Insurance Sector’, in OUP Handbook for Financial Services 2015) and citizenship (‘A Citizenship in Movement’, 5:5 German Law Journal 2014), Professor Everson has broad teaching and research interests in international economic law, regulatory law, legal theory, European law and constitutional law as it intersects with the interests of the private sphere.
Professor Everson received her PhD from the European University Institute and has held posts in Italy, Germany (Centre for European Legal Policy, University of Bremen) and the UK. She has researched throughout Europe, holding various research grants from the German DFG, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Most recently, Professor Everson helped lead the Jean Monnet network on European Regulatory Agencies, co-ordinated from Maastricht University (https://tarn.maastrichtuniversity.nl/).
Currently, Professor Everson is concentrating upon her interests in economic law and in divergence from a mainstream tradition of European legal thought. Together with Professor Christian Joerges (emeritus, Hertie-School of Governance, Berlin/University of Bremen), she has published recently in each field and is developing a project on ‘Dissenting Voices’ (‘Un querelle allemande? Der Streit um die Wirtschaftsverfassung zwischen Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker und Rudolf Wiethölter‘, in 4:52 Kritische Justiz 2019; ‘Critical European (Union) Law’, in Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory, Edward Elgar, 2020).

Office hours

During Term term, for the period of remote Covid working, Professor Everson is available for meetings by appointment. Please email.
Research
Research

Research interests
- Economic law, European law, Citizenship, European Law, Administrative law, regulatory agancies
- Legal Theory
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

7

Current doctoral researchers
- ANNA GONOURIE WALDENSTROM
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2020 onwards
- MARTIN STEVEN
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2020 onwards
- MIROSLAV BEZECNY
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2017 onwards
- MUKESH BHATT
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  Law and Evolutionary Agency in Outer Space
- PATRICK DEVINE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2020 onwards
Doctoral alumni
- DANIELE D'ALVIA
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2014
  
  Title of thesis:
  Risk, Uncertainty, and Finance: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies as self-regulation instruments
  
  Awarded:
  2020
Teaching

Teaching modules
- Economic Approach to Law (Intensive) (LALA124S7)
- Law, Post-Development and the Critique of Political Economy (Intensive) (LALA147S7)
- Critical Methods in Law & Society Research (LALW065S7)
- Introduction to Commercial Law (LALW082H5)
- Competition Law (LALW090H6)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Everson, Michelle (2016) The continuing relevance of the convention?. Law and Critique 27 (1), pp. 9-12. ISSN 0957-8536.
- Everson, Michelle (2015) An exercise in legal honesty: rewriting the court of justice and the Bundesverfassungsgericht. European Law Journal 21 (4), pp. 474-499. ISSN 1351-5993.
- Everson, Michelle (2013) The fault of (European) law in (political and social) economic crisis. Law and Critique 24 (2), pp. 107-129. ISSN 0957-8536.
- Everson, Michelle (2013) The constitutional structures of the national political economy: barrier to or precondition for European integration?. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 13 (1), pp. 119-128. ISSN 1566-1679.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2012) Reconfiguring the politics-law relationship in the Integration Project through conflicts-law constitutionalism. European Law Journal 18 (5), pp. 644-666. ISSN 1351-5993.
- Everson, Michelle (2011) The limits of the 'conflicts approach': law in times of political turmoil. Transnational Legal Theory 2 (2), pp. 271-285. ISSN 2041-4005.
- Everson, Michelle (2009) European citizenship and the disillusion of the common man. ARENA Reports 9 (1), pp. 173-200. ISSN 0807-3139.
- Everson, Michelle and Zieffler, A. and Garfield, J. (2008) Implementing new reform guidelines in teaching introductory college statistics courses. Teaching Statistics 30 (3), pp. 66-70. ISSN 0141-982X.
- Everson, Michelle and Vos, E. (2008) European risk governance in global context. Connex Report Series (6), pp. 7-36. ISSN 1864-1539/6.
- Everson, Michelle (2003) 'Subjects' of 'citizens' of 'erewhon?': law and non-law in the development of a 'British citizenship'. Citizenship Studies 7 (1), pp. 57-83. ISSN 1362-1025.
- Everson, Michelle (2002) Adjudicating the market. European Law Journal 8 (1), pp. 152-171. ISSN 1351-5993.
- Everson, Michelle (2002) Social pluralism and the European Court of Justice: a court between a rock and a hard place. The Journal of Legislative Studies 8 (4), pp. 98-116. ISSN 1357-2334.
- Everson, Michelle (2001) European agencies: from institutional efficiency to 'good' governance. European Union Studies Association Review 14 (4),
- Everson, Michelle (1999) A German cornucopia. European Law Journal 5 (2), pp. 141-146. ISSN 1351-5993.
- Everson, Michelle (1998) Administering Europe?. Journal of Common Market Studies 36 (2), pp. 195-216. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Everson, Michelle (1998) Beyond the Bundesverfassungsgericht: on the necessary cunning of constitutional reasoning. European Law Journal 4 (4), pp. 389-410. ISSN 1351-5993.
- Everson, Michelle and Preu'ß, U.K. (1996) Konzeptionen von bürgerschaft in Europa. Prokla: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 26 (105), ISSN 0342-8176.
- Everson, Michelle (1995) Independent agencies: hierarchy beaters?. European Law Journal 1 (2), pp. 180-204. ISSN 1351-5993.
Book
- Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E., eds. (2014) EU agencies in between institutions and member states. European Monographs Series Set. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 9789041128430.
- Everson, Michelle van Asselt, M. and Everson, Michelle and Vos, E., eds. (2014) Trade, health and the environment: the European Union put to the test. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138192607.
- Everson, Michelle and Vos, E., eds. (2008) Uncertain risks regulated. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781844721627.
- Everson, Michelle and Eisner, Julia (2007) The making of a European constitution: judges and law beyond constitutive power. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415439053.
Book Review
- Everson, Michelle (2007) Is it just me, or is there an elephant in the room?.
- Everson, Michelle (2005) Majone's Europe.
- Everson, Michelle (2004) Accountability and law in Europe: towards a new public legal order?.
Book Section
- Everson, Michelle (2020) Politicising Europe: liberating the technocratic?. In: Cardwell, J. and Granger, M.-P. (eds.) Research Handbook on the Politics of EU Law. Research Handbooks in Law and Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 144-161. ISBN 9781788971270.
- Everson, Michelle (2019) Facticity as validity: the misplaced revolutionary praxis of European law. In: Christodoulidis, E. and Dukes, R. and Goldoni, M. (eds.) Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 407-427. ISBN 9781786438881.
- Everson, Michelle (2015) Banking on union: EU governance between risk and uncertainty. In: Dawson, M. and Enderlein, H. and Joerges, C. (eds.) Beyond the Crisis The Governance of Europe's Economic, Political and Legal Transformation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198752868.
- Everson, Michelle (2015) Regulating the insurance sector. In: Moloney, N. and Ferran, E. and Payne, J, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation. Oxford Handbooks in Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199687206.
- Everson, Michelle (2014) European agencies: barely legal?. In: Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E. (eds.) EU Agencies In Between Institutions and Member States. European Monographs Series Set. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 9789041128430.
- Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E. (2014) European agencies in between institutions and member states. In: Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E. (eds.) EU Agencies In Between Institutions and Member States. European Monographs Series Set. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 9789041128430.
- Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E. (2014) What is the future of European agencies?. In: Everson, Michelle and Monda, C. and Vos, E. (eds.) EU Agencies In Between Institutions and Member States. European Monographs Series Set. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 9789041128430.
- Everson, Michelle and Correia Goncalves, Rui (2014) Article 16 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: defining the European economic constitution. In: Peer, S. and Hervey, T. and Kenner, J. and Ward, A. (eds.) The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Commentary. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781849463089.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2014) Who is the guardian for constitutionalism in Europe after the financial crisis?. In: Kroger, S. (ed.) Political Representation in the European Union: Still democratic in times of crisis?. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138683532.
- Everson, Michelle (2012) A very cosmopolitan citizenship: but who pays the price?. In: Dougan, M. and Shuibhne, N.N. and Spaventa, E. (eds.) Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen. Modern Studies in European Law. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 145-170. ISBN 9781849462358.
- Everson, Michelle and Rodrigues, F. (2012) A crisis of governance: can comitology theory help legitimize ECB/ESCB operations?. In: Chiti, E. and Menéndez, A. J. and Teixeira, P. G. (eds.) The European Rescue of the European Union? The existential crisis of the European political project. Oslo, Norway: Arena. pp. 193-228. ISBN 9788293137405.
- Everson, Michelle (2011) European economic rights and national state aids policy in conflict: the problem of the democratic securing of welfare. In: Szyszczak, E. (ed.) Research Handbook on European State Aid Law. Research Handbooks in European Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781849802741.
- Everson, Michelle (2010) Politics, power, and a European law of suspicion. In: Neyer, J. and Wiener, A. (eds.) Political Theory of the European Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199587308.
- Everson, Michelle (2009) Agencies: the "dark hour" of the executive?. In: Hofmann, H.C.H. and Türk, A.H. (eds.) Legal Challenges In EU Administrative Law: Towards an Integrated Administration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 116-135. ISBN 9781847207883.
- Everson, Michelle (2009) European agencies: an uncertain future. In: Hoffmann, H.C.H. and Turk, A.H. (eds.) Legal Challenges In EU Administrative Law: Towards an integrated administration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847207883.
- Everson, Michelle (2008) Three intimate tales of law and science: hope, despair and transcendence. In: Everson, Michelle and Vos, E. (eds.) Uncertain Risks Regulated. Law, Science and Society. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge-Cavendish. pp. 347-358. ISBN 978-1-84472-162-7.
- Everson, Michelle and Vos, E. (2008) The scientification of politics and the politicisation of science. In: Everson, Michelle and Vos, E. (eds.) Uncertain Risks Regulated. Law, Science and Society. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge-Cavendish. pp. 1-18. ISBN 978-1-84472-162-7.
- Everson, Michelle and Eisner, Julia (2008) Judges and lawyers beyond constitutive. In: Oddvar Eriksen, E. and Joerges, C. and Rodl, F. (eds.) Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union: The unsettled political order of Europe. Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 61-84. ISBN 9780415462273.
- Everson, Michelle and Eisner, Julia (2008) Judges and lawyers beyond constitutive power. In: Eriksen, E.O. and Joerges, C. and Rödl, F. (eds.) Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415462273.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2008) Consumer citizenship in postnational constellations?. In: Trentmann, Frank and Soper, K. (eds.) Citizenship and Consumption New York. Consumption and Public Life. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230553460.
- Everson, Michelle (2006) Judicial constitution making. In: Joerges, C. and Erikson, E. (eds.) Law and Democracy in Europe’s Post-National Constellation. Norway: Arena.
- Everson, Michelle (2005) Control of executive acts: the procedural solution. 'proportionality, state of the art decision-making and relevant interests'. In: Curtin, D. and Kellerman, A.E. and Blockmans, S. (eds.) EU Constitution: the Best Way Forwards (Proceedings of the Asser Colloqium 2004). Asser Press. ISBN 9789067042000.
- Everson, Michelle (2005) Good governance and European agencies: the balance. In: Geradin, D. and Muñoz, R. and Petit, N. (eds.) Which Regulatory Authorities in the EU?. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781845422677.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2005) Law, economics and politics in the constitutionalisation of Europe. In: Eriksen, E.O. and Fossum, J.E. and Menendez, A.J. (eds.) Developing a Constitution for Europe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415375344.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2005) Re-conceptualising Europeanisation as a public law of collisions: comitology, agencies and an interactive public adjudication. In: Hoffmann, H.C.H. and Turk, A.H. (eds.) EU Administrative Governance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781845422851.
- Everson, Michelle (2004) Law and non-law in the constitutionalisation of Europe: comments on Eriksen and Fossum. In: Joerges, C. and Sand, I.-J. and Teubner, G. (eds.) Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781847311771.
- Everson, Michelle and Eisner, Julia (2004) Forgetting law in the European Convention? Europe's 'hidden' constitution-building and its legitimation. In: O'Keefe, D. and Tridimas, T. (eds.) European Law for the 21st Century. Essays in European Law. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781841134567.
- Everson, Michelle (2003) Comment on "On European Agencies" by Edoardo Chiti. In: Eriksen, E.O. and Joerges, C. and Neyer, J. (eds.) European Governance, Deliberation and the Quest for Democratisation. Oslo, Norway: ARENA: Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation. pp. 323-337.
- Everson, Michelle (2002) Strong evaluations, self-interpretation and constitutional patriotism. In: Eriksen, E.O. and Fossum, J.E. and Menéndez, A.J. (eds.) Constitution Making and Democratic Legitimacy. Oslo, Norway: ARENA: Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation. pp. 177-184.
- Everson, Michelle (2002) The socially embedded market polity and administrative proceduralism. In: Joerges, C. and Dehousse, R. (eds.) Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 231-252. ISBN 9780199246083.
- Everson, Michelle and Majone, G. (2001) Institutional reform in the EU: the case of EU agencies. In: De Schutter, O. and Lebessis, N. and Paterson, J. (eds.) Governance in the European Union. Brussels, Belgium: European Commission. ISBN 9789289403136.
- Everson, Michelle (2000) Beyond the Bundesverfassungsgericht: on the necessary cunning of constitutional law. In: Bankowski, Z. and Scott, A. (eds.) The European Union and its Order: The Legal Theory of European Integration. Oxford, UK: Wiley. ISBN 9780631215042.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2000) Challenging the bureaucratic challenge. In: Eriksen, E.O. and Fossum, J.E. (eds.) Democracy in the European Union. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 164-188. ISBN 9780415225922.
- Everson, Michelle (1999) The constitutional law of the Euro? disciplining European governance. In: Beaumont, P. and Walker, N. (eds.) Legal Framework of the Single European Currency. London, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 119-139. ISBN 9781847314260.
- Everson, Michelle (1999) The constitutionalisation of European administrative law: legal oversight of a stateless internal market. In: Joerges, C. and Vos, E. (eds.) EU Committees: Social Regulation, Law and Politics. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 281-371. ISBN 9781901362688.
- Everson, Michelle (1997) Economic rights within the European union. In: Bellamy, R. and Bufacchi, V. and Castiglione, D. (eds.) Democracy and Constitutional Culture in the Union of Europe. Lothian Foundation Press. pp. 137-152. ISBN 9781872210209.
- Everson, Michelle (1996) Independent agencies. In: Winter, G. (ed.) Sources and Categories of European Union Law. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN https://www.nomos.de/verlag/.
- Everson, Michelle (1996) Women and EU citizenship. In: Hervey, T.K. and O'Keeffe, D.O. (eds.) Sex Equality Law in the European Union. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9780471964360.
- Everson, Michelle (1996) The federal supervisory authority for insurance. In: Majone, G. (ed.) Regulating Europe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 202-228. ISBN 9780415142960.
- Everson, Michelle (1995) The legacy of the market citizen. In: Shaw, J. and More, G. (eds.) New Legal Dynamics of European Union. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. pp. 73-89. ISBN 9780198259800.
- Everson, Michelle (1994) The instrumentalisation of competition policy: the case of the model insurance policy. In: Seehafer, W. (ed.) Jahrbuch Junger Zivilrechtswissenschaftler 1993. Richard Boorberg Verlag. pp. 157-170. ISBN 9783415019249.
Monograph
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2013) Who is the Guardian for Constitutionalism in Europe after the Financial Crisis?. LEQS European Institute.
- Everson, Michelle (2012) A technology of expertise: EU financial services agencies. London, UK: London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Pollak, J. and Everson, Michelle and Lord, C. and Schubert, S.R. and de Wilde, P. (2011) Citizens' weight of vote in selected federal systems. European Parliament Committees.
- Everson, Michelle and Rodrigues, F. (2010) What can the law do for the European system of central Banks? Good Governance and Comitology 'within' the System. Zentrum fur Europaische Rechtspolitik, Universität Bremen.
- Joerges, C. and Braams, B. and Everson, Michelle (2007) The European turn towards new modes of governance: legal problems of a political concept. Bremen, Germany: University of Bremen.
- Everson, Michelle and Joerges, C. (2006) Consumer citizenship in postnational constellations?. Italy: European University Institute.
- Everson, Michelle and Majone, G. and Metcalfe, L. and Schout, A. (2000) The role of specialised agencies in decentralising EU governance. European Commission.
- Everson, Michelle (1999) British citizenship: autonomy and representation. Italy: European University Institute.
- Everson, Michelle and Preuss, U.K. (1995) Concepts, foundations and limits of European citizenship. ZERP an der Universität Bremen.
- Everson, Michelle and Preuss, U.K. (1993) To the constitutional position of the citizen of the United Kingdom. ZERP an der Universität Bremen.
- Dehousse, R. and Joerges, C.H. and Majone, G. and Snyder, F. and Everson, Michelle (1992) Europe after 1992: new regulatory strategies. Italy: European University Institute.

Prof Michelle Everson

Overview

Biography

Office hours

Research

Research interests

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Current doctoral researchers

ANNA GONOURIE WALDENSTROM

MARTIN STEVEN

MIROSLAV BEZECNY

MUKESH BHATT

PATRICK DEVINE

Doctoral alumni

DANIELE D'ALVIA

Teaching

Teaching modules

Publications

Article

Book

Book Review

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Monograph