Dorota Leczykiewicz

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow

Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Fellow by Special Election in Trinity College, where she teaches Tort and EU Law. Her research interests focus on legal reasoning, comparative private law, and EU constitutional and private law. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford in comparative judicial reasoning in Tort law. A book based on her DPhil thesis is forthcoming with Hart Publishing. She is one of the senior convenors of the Oxford EU Law Discussion Group. Her publications include articles on the EU law of remedies, codification of EU private law, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the question of private party liability in EU law. Together with Professor Stephen Weatherill she organised a conference and edited a collection of papers on The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships (Hart Publishing 2013), funded in part by a grant from the British Academy. Her Leverhulme project investigates concepts and principles which govern applicability of EU norms against individuals. Its purpose is to identify the inherent limits of applicability of EU norms in horizontal relations, such as those stemming from the established doctrines of EU law, general principles of law and considerations of private autonomy and social justice. Currently, she is working on the question of horizontal effects of EU fundamental rights, distributive effects of EU private law, protection of private autonomy in EU law, and on selected aspects of legality review in the EU.