School of Law

Professor Maria Fletcher

  • Professor (School of Law)

telephone: 01413304897
email: Maria.Fletcher@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 428, 8 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895

Biography

Maria Fletcher is Professor in European Law and Student Experience Director in the School of Law.  She convenes and teaches on multiple courses, including EU Law, EU Institutions and Policies and Immigration Law. Her research interests and approaches to research have evolved over her career but are broadly motivated by a desire to reflect on how EU law works to generate, extend and defend rights for individuals, particularly those who find themselves ‘at the margins’. The fields of migration, EU citizenship, EU criminal justice and women and the law have been the main focus of her work. Committed to ensuring that her academic endeavours make a meaningful impact on students and wider society, Maria is on the leadership team of the GO Justice Centre (Glasgow Open Justice) in the School of Law. Its mission is to drive social change through legal education, collaboration and research. She is co-founder and co-lead of the Women in Law Project -  which seeks to uncover the hidden histories and stories of women in law in Scotland and advocate for a more diverse and equitable legal sector, locally and globally. Maria is co-chair of the law centre, JustRight Scotland.  She follows and supports the work of the University of Glasgow's Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) 

 

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

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2026

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (Eds.) (2026) Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press)

de Waele, Henri and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 (2026) Scotland and the Court of Justice of the European Union: An Enduring Legacy? Radboud University Press: Nijmegen. (In Press)

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (2026) 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. (In Press)

2025

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X (2025) Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace: by Helen Kay and Rose Pipes, 2024, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 232pp., £90 (Hardback), ISBN 9781399514521. Women's History Review, 34(4), pp. 669-671. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2025.2493464)[Book Review]

2024

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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

2023

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (2023) Women in Law Project. [Exhibitions]

Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 (2023) 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. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 273-306. ISBN 9781683932512 (doi: 10.5040/9781683934981.ch-9)

2021

Armstrong, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 (2002) Asylum and Immigration; picking up the pace at the European Level. SCOLAG, 229, pp. 163-165.

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Articles

Da Lomba, Sylvie, Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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

Shaw, J., Miller, N. and Fletcher, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (2026) 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. (In Press)

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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

Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 (2023) 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. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 273-306. ISBN 9781683932512 (doi: 10.5040/9781683934981.ch-9)

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 and Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X (2025) Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace: by Helen Kay and Rose Pipes, 2024, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 232pp., £90 (Hardback), ISBN 9781399514521. Women's History Review, 34(4), pp. 669-671. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2025.2493464)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Cannon, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-7412, Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (Eds.) (2026) Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press)

de Waele, Henri and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895 (2026) Scotland and the Court of Justice of the European Union: An Enduring Legacy? Radboud University Press: Nijmegen. (In Press)

Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614 and Fletcher, Maria ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid (2023) Women in Law Project. [Exhibitions]

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Supervision

  • Campbell, Marc Allan
    This research will investigate the experiences of gay men seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.

Research datasets

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2023

Fletcher, M. , Peevers, C. , Stevenson, S. and McPherson, R. (2023) Women in Law Project - 100 Voices. [Data Collection]

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