Professor Maria Fletcher
- Professor (School of Law)
telephone:
01413304897
email:
Maria.Fletcher@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 428, 8 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Biography
Maria Fletcher is Professor in European Law and Employability officer in the School of Law. She teaches on EU law-related courses at both under-graduate and post-graduate level and her research interests lie in the field of EU constitutional law and EU criminal Justice and migration. She is on the Steering Group of the University of Glasgow's Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) and the Director of the Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE).
Research interests
Maria’s research interests lie broadly in the field of European Union law. More specifically, her work examines the constitutional dimensions of the EU’s 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (AFSJ) and the subject areas that fall under this heading. These include EU criminal law and policy and EU immigration and asylum law and policy. She has recently concluded a Nuffield-funded research project in collaboration with Professor Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh, exploring the friction and overlap between EU free movement law and UK immigration law.
Publications
2025
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X
(2025)
Helen Kay and Rose Pipes. Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937 : Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace, Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Women’s History Review,
[Book Review]
(Accepted for Publication)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2025)
Madge Easton Anderson: making and shaping legal history from Scotland.
In: Eldridge, Lorren, Ireland, Emily and Derry, Caroline (eds.)
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline.
Hart.
(Accepted for Publication)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2025)
Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future.
Edinburgh University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Burrows, Noreen
(2024)
The language regime of the EU: an analytical approach.
In: Barnard, Catherine, Lazowski, Adam and Sarmiento, Daniel (eds.)
The Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe: Essays in Honour of Eleanor Sharpston.
Hart Publishing.
ISBN 9781509977000
(Accepted for Publication)
2023
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Macpherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2023)
Women in Law Project.
[Exhibitions]
2022
Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2022)
A century of women in the Scottish legal profession.
In: Keane, Eamon and Robson, Peter (eds.)
Law and Justice: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Ian Willock.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
2021
Armstrong, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Fletcher, Maria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2021)
'It starts with conversations': Civic Engagement in the College of Social Sciences.
Discussion Paper.
University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
2019
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2019)
Impact of the Pupino decision on EU Law.
In: Mitsilegas, V., di Martino, A. and Mancano, L. (eds.)
The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis.
Series: Modern Studies in European Law.
Hart Publishing, pp. 67-82.
ISBN 9781509911202
Da Lomba, Sylvie, Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2019)
Scottish legal education after Brexit.
Law Teacher, 53(2),
pp. 138-147.
(doi: 10.1080/03069400.2019.1572269)
2018
Busby, Nicole and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2018)
The Civil Society Brexit Project: Brexit and Women's Rights.
Documentation.
SULNE and Human Rights Consortium Scotland.
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Mancano, Leandro
(2018)
Brexit and Scots law: policing and criminal justice.
Edinburgh Law Review, 22(1),
pp. 144-149.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0465)
2017
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2017)
Brexit, the UK and Scotland: the story so far: A constitutional drama in four acts.
In: Hassan, Gerry and Gunson, Russell (eds.)
Scotland, Brexit and the UK: A Guide to the Future.
Luath Press Ltd..
ISBN 9781912147182
Burrows, Noreen and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2017)
Brexit as constitutional "shock" and its threat to the devolution settlement: reform or bust.
Juridical Review, 2017(1),
pp. 49-57.
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2017)
What options are available to Scotland to remain within the EU given the ‘Brexit’ referendum result?
Edinburgh Law Review, 21(1),
pp. 98-103.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0392)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Herlin-Karnell, Ester and Matera, Claudio (Eds.)
(2017)
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Series: Routledge research in EU law.
Routledge: London.
ISBN 9781138828575
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Herlin-Karnell, Ester
(2017)
Is there a transatlantic security strategy? Area of freedom, security and justice law and its global dimension.
In: Fletcher, Maria, Herlin-Karnell, Ester and Matera, Claudio (eds.)
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Series: Routledge research in EU law.
Routledge: London, pp. 417-438.
ISBN 9781138828575
2016
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2016)
EU criminal law flexibility: what lessons from the UK protocol 36 saga.
In: Mitsilegas, V., Bergström, M. and Konstadinides, T. (eds.)
Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
ISBN 9781783473304
2013
Shaw, J., Miller, N. and Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2013)
Getting to Grips with EU Citizenship: Understanding the Friction Between UK Immigration Law and EU Free Movement Law.
Edinburgh Law School Citizenship Studies: Edinburgh, UK.
ISBN 9780957517608
2012
Craig, S. and Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2012)
The supervision of immigration and asylum appeals in the UK: taking stock.
International Journal of Refugee Law, 24(1),
pp. 60-84.
(doi: 10.1093/ijrl/eer040)
2011
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2011)
EU crime and policing and the OCTs.
In: Kochenov, D. (ed.)
Eu Law of the Overseas: Outermost Regions, Associated Overseas Countries and Territories, Territories Sui Generis.
Series: European monographs (77).
Kluwer Law International: London, pp. 291-306.
ISBN 9789041134455
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2011)
EU criminal justice : beyond Lisbon.
In: Eckes, C. and Konstadinides, T. (eds.)
Crime Within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice : A European Public Order.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 10-42.
ISBN 9781107002159
2009
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2009)
Schengen, the European Court of Justice and Flexibility under the Lisbon Treaty: Balancing the United Kingdom's 'ins' and 'outs'.
European Constitutional Law Review, 5(1),
pp. 71-98.
(doi: 10.1017/S1574019609000716)
2008
Craig, Sarah, Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Goodall, Kay
(2008)
Challenging Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Decisions in Scotland: An evaluation of Onward Appeals and Reconsiderations.
Nuffield Foundation: London.
ISBN 9780852618363
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Loof, R. and Gilmore, B.
(2008)
EU Criminal Law and Justice.
Series: Elgar European law.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
ISBN 9781845426972
2007
Fletcher, M. (2007) The problem of multiple criminal prosecutions: building an effective EU response. Yearbook of European Law, 26,
2005
Craig, Sarah and Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2005)
Deflecting Refugees: A Critique of the EC Asylum Procedures Directive.
In: Shah, P. (ed.)
The Challenge of Asylum to Legal Systems.
Routledge-Cavendish: London, pp. 52-81.
ISBN 978-1859419816
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2005)
Extending 'indirect effect' to the third pillar: the significance of Pupino?
European Law Review, 30(6),
pp. 862-877.
2003
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2003)
EU governance techniques in the creation of a common European policy on immigration and asylum.
European Public Law, 9(4),
pp. 533-562.
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2003)
Some Developments to the ne bis in idem Principle in the European Union: Criminal Proceedings against Huseyn Gozutok and Klaus Brugge.
Modern Law Review, 66(5),
pp. 769-780.
2002
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2002)
Asylum and Immigration; picking up the pace at the European Level.
SCOLAG, 229,
pp. 163-165.
Articles
Da Lomba, Sylvie, Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2019)
Scottish legal education after Brexit.
Law Teacher, 53(2),
pp. 138-147.
(doi: 10.1080/03069400.2019.1572269)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Mancano, Leandro
(2018)
Brexit and Scots law: policing and criminal justice.
Edinburgh Law Review, 22(1),
pp. 144-149.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0465)
Burrows, Noreen and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2017)
Brexit as constitutional "shock" and its threat to the devolution settlement: reform or bust.
Juridical Review, 2017(1),
pp. 49-57.
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2017)
What options are available to Scotland to remain within the EU given the ‘Brexit’ referendum result?
Edinburgh Law Review, 21(1),
pp. 98-103.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0392)
Craig, S. and Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2012)
The supervision of immigration and asylum appeals in the UK: taking stock.
International Journal of Refugee Law, 24(1),
pp. 60-84.
(doi: 10.1093/ijrl/eer040)
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2009)
Schengen, the European Court of Justice and Flexibility under the Lisbon Treaty: Balancing the United Kingdom's 'ins' and 'outs'.
European Constitutional Law Review, 5(1),
pp. 71-98.
(doi: 10.1017/S1574019609000716)
Fletcher, M. (2007) The problem of multiple criminal prosecutions: building an effective EU response. Yearbook of European Law, 26,
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2005)
Extending 'indirect effect' to the third pillar: the significance of Pupino?
European Law Review, 30(6),
pp. 862-877.
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2003)
EU governance techniques in the creation of a common European policy on immigration and asylum.
European Public Law, 9(4),
pp. 533-562.
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2003)
Some Developments to the ne bis in idem Principle in the European Union: Criminal Proceedings against Huseyn Gozutok and Klaus Brugge.
Modern Law Review, 66(5),
pp. 769-780.
Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2002)
Asylum and Immigration; picking up the pace at the European Level.
SCOLAG, 229,
pp. 163-165.
Books
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2025)
Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future.
Edinburgh University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
Shaw, J., Miller, N. and Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2013)
Getting to Grips with EU Citizenship: Understanding the Friction Between UK Immigration Law and EU Free Movement Law.
Edinburgh Law School Citizenship Studies: Edinburgh, UK.
ISBN 9780957517608
Craig, Sarah, Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Goodall, Kay
(2008)
Challenging Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Decisions in Scotland: An evaluation of Onward Appeals and Reconsiderations.
Nuffield Foundation: London.
ISBN 9780852618363
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Loof, R. and Gilmore, B.
(2008)
EU Criminal Law and Justice.
Series: Elgar European law.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
ISBN 9781845426972
Book Sections
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2025)
Madge Easton Anderson: making and shaping legal history from Scotland.
In: Eldridge, Lorren, Ireland, Emily and Derry, Caroline (eds.)
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline.
Hart.
(Accepted for Publication)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Burrows, Noreen
(2024)
The language regime of the EU: an analytical approach.
In: Barnard, Catherine, Lazowski, Adam and Sarmiento, Daniel (eds.)
The Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe: Essays in Honour of Eleanor Sharpston.
Hart Publishing.
ISBN 9781509977000
(Accepted for Publication)
Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2022)
A century of women in the Scottish legal profession.
In: Keane, Eamon and Robson, Peter (eds.)
Law and Justice: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Ian Willock.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2019)
Impact of the Pupino decision on EU Law.
In: Mitsilegas, V., di Martino, A. and Mancano, L. (eds.)
The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis.
Series: Modern Studies in European Law.
Hart Publishing, pp. 67-82.
ISBN 9781509911202
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Zahn, Rebecca
(2017)
Brexit, the UK and Scotland: the story so far: A constitutional drama in four acts.
In: Hassan, Gerry and Gunson, Russell (eds.)
Scotland, Brexit and the UK: A Guide to the Future.
Luath Press Ltd..
ISBN 9781912147182
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Herlin-Karnell, Ester
(2017)
Is there a transatlantic security strategy? Area of freedom, security and justice law and its global dimension.
In: Fletcher, Maria, Herlin-Karnell, Ester and Matera, Claudio (eds.)
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Series: Routledge research in EU law.
Routledge: London, pp. 417-438.
ISBN 9781138828575
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2016)
EU criminal law flexibility: what lessons from the UK protocol 36 saga.
In: Mitsilegas, V., Bergström, M. and Konstadinides, T. (eds.)
Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
ISBN 9781783473304
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2011)
EU crime and policing and the OCTs.
In: Kochenov, D. (ed.)
Eu Law of the Overseas: Outermost Regions, Associated Overseas Countries and Territories, Territories Sui Generis.
Series: European monographs (77).
Kluwer Law International: London, pp. 291-306.
ISBN 9789041134455
Fletcher, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2011)
EU criminal justice : beyond Lisbon.
In: Eckes, C. and Konstadinides, T. (eds.)
Crime Within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice : A European Public Order.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 10-42.
ISBN 9781107002159
Craig, Sarah and Fletcher, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2005)
Deflecting Refugees: A Critique of the EC Asylum Procedures Directive.
In: Shah, P. (ed.)
The Challenge of Asylum to Legal Systems.
Routledge-Cavendish: London, pp. 52-81.
ISBN 978-1859419816
Book Reviews
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X
(2025)
Helen Kay and Rose Pipes. Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937 : Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace, Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Women’s History Review,
[Book Review]
(Accepted for Publication)
Edited Books
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Herlin-Karnell, Ester and Matera, Claudio (Eds.)
(2017)
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Series: Routledge research in EU law.
Routledge: London.
ISBN 9781138828575
Research Reports or Papers
Armstrong, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Fletcher, Maria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2021)
'It starts with conversations': Civic Engagement in the College of Social Sciences.
Discussion Paper.
University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Busby, Nicole and Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895
(2018)
The Civil Society Brexit Project: Brexit and Women's Rights.
Documentation.
SULNE and Human Rights Consortium Scotland.
Exhibitions
Fletcher, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Macpherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2023)
Women in Law Project.
[Exhibitions]
Supervision
- AKSU, PINAR
Art and Justice: using art-based practices for social change - Campbell, Marc Allan
This research will investigate the experiences of gay men seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.
Research datasets
2023
Fletcher, M. , Peevers, C. , Stevenson, S. and McPherson, R. (2023) Women in Law Project - 100 Voices. [Data Collection]