Adrienne Yong

Adrienne completed an LLB (Hons) at Durham University with First Class Honours in 2011, and an LLM in European Union Law at King's College London in 2012 with Distinction, before joining the PhD programme at King's in October 2012. She was awarded her PhD in July 2016.

Since September 2015, Adrienne has been a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hertfordshire, where she teaches European Law (Year 2), Land Law (Year 2) and Trusts & Equity (Year 3). Prior to this, Adrienne was a visiting tutor in European Law (Year 1) in 2013/14 at King's College London and guest lectured on the King's College London Summer School course in European Law in July 2013. She then convened and lectured on the JESIE/Education Gateway Summer School Programme at King's College London in August 2014. She was Research Assistant to Dr. Cian Murphy in 2013, Prof. Peer Zumbansen in 2014 and Dr. Oana Stefan in 2015.

Adrienne's thesis critically examines the development of Union citizenship rights in the European Union and its relationship with fundamental rights protection in the Court of Justice of the EU, with a particular focus on the effects of the Eurocrisis and increasing Euroscepticism on its decisions in these areas. Her research interests extend to the relationship citizenship has with identity, its disparities at the European Union and national level, legal and political theories of citizenship in the transnational global realm and legitimacy and solidarity in the EU.

European Union Law, Union citizenship, human rights, EU fundamental rights, EU internal market, legal culture of the EU, Eurocrisis, Euroscepticism, migration, politics of the EU