Charlotte Rachel O'Brien

• EU social law, UK public law and human rights law
• EU policies on social security coordination, migration, citizenship, labour law and asylum
• The implementation of these policies into UK law
• Theories of equality and fundamental rights
• Welfare law, policy and reform

I joined York Law School in 2009. From 2006-9, I completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool through an individual AHRC studentship and took part in two research projects on retirement migration funded by the Spanish Ministry for Employment & Social Affairs and Age Concern. These looked at the access to welfare services for post-retirement EU migrants. Prior to the PhD, I completed the LLM in Law at the University of Leeds, where I undertook research assistance work on the EU constitutional treaty. Following my Social & Political Sciences degree I trained as a volunteer Citizens Advice Bureau adviser, and have since continued case work and supervision.