Egle Dagilyte
Email: egle.dagilyte@kcl.ac.uk
Profile
Egle is a PhD candidate at King’s College London School of Law, holding an LLB in Law and Management from Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) and a Masters in International and Comparative Law from Uppsala University (Sweden), where in 2003 Egle was awarded a Scholarship for Socrates/Erasmus studies. Her Master’s thesis focused on the coordination of exportability of family benefits in the EU, with the main emphasis on the United Kingdom and Lithuania.
Egle is one of the contributors to JMCE’s Blog ‘Europe on the Strand’.
Research
Egle’s academic interests lie in the area of human rights, European Union (EU) constitutional law, EU citizenship, free movement of persons and migration. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the balance between social rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU.
Egle’s research is supervised by Dr. Lorenzo Zucca and Prof. Piet Eeckhout. She successfully completed the transfer to the PhD register in June 2008.
Presentations & Publications
Presentations
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‘The Right to Education and Free Movement of Persons: Whose Right is it and how does the EU Protect it?’ Paper presented to ‘Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Enlarging European Union’ Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 2010.
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‘Solidarity after Lisbon: a European Value, a Legal Constitutional Principle, or Both?’ Paper presented to SLSA 2010 Conference, Bristol Law School, the University of the West of England, March 2010.
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‘Social Rights in the EU: What are they?’ Paper presented to CASS Postgraduate Conference ‘Moving Forward’, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, July 2009.
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‘Equal Social Rights at Work? Third-Country Nationals in the European Union’ Paper presented to Equal Opportunities International (EOI) Conference, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, July 2009.
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‘Human Rights Protection in the European Union’ Paper presented to Conference on European Law 2004, Utena College, Utena, Lithuania, 2004.
Publications
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Book review ‘Conflicts of Rights in the European Union. A Theory of Supranational Adjudication by Aida Torres Pérez’ 17:2 European Law Journal (forthcoming)
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Book review 'The Effects of EU Citizenship: Economic, Social and Political Rights in A Time of Constitutional Change by Flora Goudappel' (2010) 12:3 King's Law Journal 597
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‘Social Human Rights and Third Country Nationals in the EU: The Case of Social Dumping?’ in C.C. Murphy and P. Green (eds) Law and Outsiders: Norms, Processes and 'Othering' in the 21st Century (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2011).
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‘The Coordination of Exportability of Family Benefits in the EU’ in Mokslinės minties šventė: studentų tarptautinių mokslinių konferencijų pranešimai (Mykolas Romeris University Publishing Centre, Vilnius 2006).
Teaching & Employment Interests
Egle has been teaching law at the UK higher education institutions since 2007 and at present tutors European Law at King’s College London. She is interested in teaching and/or research opportunities. A full CV is available upon request.