Morten Broberg: What is your opinion concerning the “construction”of the principles of the ECJ? What is the role played by preliminary reference?

Joseph H.H. WEILER despre ordini juridice, dreptul Uniunii Europene si judecatorul constitutional national

Mariolina Eliantonio

Introducere la volumul „Interviewing European Union. Wilhelm Meister in EU law”, editat de Mihai Sandru si Mihai Banu, Editura Universitară, 2013.

Reinhard ZIMMERMANN

Reinhard ZIMMERMANN

 Reinhard Zimmermann studied law (1972-76) and earned his doctorate (1978) at the University of Hamburg. He was admitted to the bar in Hamburg in 1979. In 1981 he was appointed to the chair of Roman and Comparative Law at the University of Cape Town. In 1988 he returned to Germany to become Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg (Bavaria). In 2002, he was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In addition, in 2008, he joined the Bucerius Law School as Professor in Legal History.

Professor Zimmermann has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Chicago (Max Rheinstein chair), Tulane, Cornell, Stellenbosch, Edinburgh, Berkeley, Auckland, Yale, Cambridge (A.L. Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and Fellow of St. John’s College) and Oxford (All Souls College). In 1996 he received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago, Aberdeen, Maastricht, Lund, Edinburgh, Cape Town, Lleida, Stellenbosch and McGill. He has served as Dean in Cape Town and Regensburg and as Chairman of the Humanities Division of the Max Planck Society from 2006-2010. In 2011 he was elected Chairman of the Association of Professors of Private Law (Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung) and President of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). He is a member of numerous academies of sciences in Germany and abroad.

Eddy WYMEERSCH

Eddy WYMEERSCH

Founder member of the Financial Law Institute, Ghent University Law School.

Founder member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); ECGI Fellow (2002); Chairman of the ECGI (2010-2012).

Chairman of the Committee of European Securities regulators (CESR) (February 2007- July 2010) and of the European Regional Committee of IOSCO. He was Chairman of the Belgian Commission Bancaire, Financiere et des Assurances (CBFA) (chief executive 2001-2007 and chairman of the supervisory board 2007-2010).

Before joining the CBFA, Mr Wymeersch has held several public functions in Belgium („regent” of the National Bank of Belgium from 1992, member of the legislative branch of the Council of State. Between 1990 and 2001, he was a member of the board of several Belgian companies, and from 1998 the Chairman of the Brussels airport. Mr Wymeersch has been an academic at the Ghent Law School where he founded the „Financial Law Institute”, and has participated in several committees advising the Belgian government, especially on financial supervision or corporate governance. In addition, he has acted as an adviser to the European Commission, a consultant to the World Bank and IFC and an advisor to several European financial institutions and stock exchanges. He has published extensively on company law, corporate governance and financial regulations. He is member of the European Corporate Governance Forum and of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He studied law at Ghent University and Harvard Law School.

Christian VON BAR

Christian VON BAR

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult., FBA, University of Osnabrück, European Legal Studies Institute.

Legal education at Freiburg, Kiel and Göttingen (Germany) (1970-1974). Dr. jur. (1976); Assessor (1977); Dr. jur. habil. (Privatdozent) (1979). LL.M. studies in Cambridge/England (October-December 1979). Acting chair in Bochum (summer term 1980) and Bonn (winter term 1980/81).

University Professor at Osnabrück since 1981. Board member of European Union Law Institute (1985-2003). Founder and Director of the Institute of Private International and Comparative Law (from 1987-2003). Founder and Director of the European Legal Studies Institute since 2003. Dean (1988/89).

Doctor iuris honoris causa Catholic University Leuven (2003); Holder of the Lower Saxony State Award (2006); Linnaeus Doctor iuris honoris causa Uppsala University (2007); Dr. iuris honoris causa Tartu University (2007); Dr. iuris honoris causa Helsinki University (May 2010).

Chairman of the Study Group on a European Civil Code (1999-2009). Member of the Commission on European Contract Law (Lando-Group) since 1992. Consultant to the UNIDROIT working group on international commercial contracts since 2005.

Editor of three law serials. Editor and Commentator of the Staudinger Commentary on the German Civil Code/Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch. Co-Editor of the outline and the full editions of the Draft Common Frame of Reference (Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law). Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of Il Foro Padano, of Europa e diritto private, of the European Review of Private Law, of Aansprakelijkheid en Verzekering, of the Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, of Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht, of International Public and Private Law (Moscow), of the Romanian Journal of Comparative and Private International Law (Bucharest), of Juridica and of Juridica International (Tartu).

Author of approximately 350 books, articles and reviews.

 

Liesbet VAN DEN BROECK

Liesbet VAN DEN BROECK 

Agent before the Court of Justice of the European Union and EFTA Court (2006-). Teaching Assistant at Ghent University (2009-).

Legal advisor in the area of EU law, with broad experience in defending the Belgian interests before the Court of Justice of the European Union and EFTA Court. Also experienced in teaching the basic principles of EU law and the procedures before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Particularly interested EU law concerning the free movement of persons and services.

 

 

Alexander TÜRK

Alexander TÜRK

Professor, Kings’ College, London.

Alexander Türk studied history (MA) and law (first and second state exams) in Augsburg, Germany. He obtained an LLM in European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (1994-95). He also holds a PhD from the University of London. He worked as Lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht, Netherlands (1995-96) before joining the the School of Law in 1996 as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Lektor.

Professor Türk is Director of the LLM Programme. He is also General Editor of LexisNexis EU Tracker. He teaches on the London Programmes of the London Law Consortium and Pepperdine University, California. He is an adjunct Professor of Georgetown University, Washington.

His publications include: The Concept of Legislation in European Community Law (Kluwer Law International, 2006); EU Administrative Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006), co-edited with Prof. H.C.H. Hofmann; Legal Challenges in EU Administrative Law: Towards an Integrated Administration (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009), co-edited with Prof. H.C.H. Hofmann; Judicial Review in EU Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009); Administrative Law and Policy of the European Union (OUP, 2011), together with Prof. H.C.H. Hofmann and Prof. Gerard Rowe.

 

Jan SMITS

Jan SMITS

 

Jan Smits holds the Chair of European Private Law at Maastricht University and is the academic director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (MEPLI). He is also research professor of Comparative Legal Studies in the University of Helsinki. After his study of law at the universities of Leiden and Poitiers (1986-1991), Jan Smits defended his PhD at the University of Leiden (1995), developing a theory of how contractual liability can be best explained. In 1995 and 1996 he taught at the universities of Stellenbosch and Tilburg. He then was appointed at Maastricht University, first (1996-1999) as an associate professor and then (1999) to the newly created Chair of European Private Law (the first chair for this field worldwide). At Maastricht, Jan Smits led the private law research group of the Ius Commune Research School. From 2008 to 2010, he was distinguished professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law at Tilburg University, a post he gave up in late 2010 to return to Maastricht and found the Maastricht European Private Law Institute. He held visiting positions at a number of foreign institutions, including Tulane Law School, Leuven University, the University of Liège, Louisiana State University and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. From 2010-2012, he also held the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) Visiting Chair on the Internationalisation of Law. Jan Smits is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

 

Daniel SARMIENTO

Daniel SARMIENTO

Daniel Sarmiento Ramirez-Escudero

Consultant – Uría Menéndez

Professor of EU and Administrative Law
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
November 2010 – Present (4 years 4 months)Madrid

Legal Secretary
Court of Justice of the European Union
November 2007 – January 2015 (7 years 3 months)Luxembourg

SURSA

Référendaire at the European Court of Justice.

Assistant Professor at Law School of University Complutense of Madrid (2006-2010); adviser for the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency (2004-2006) and the Spanish Supreme Court (2006-2007).

Author of several books and articles on EU law and public comparative law. Teaching and lectures, inter alia, at the University of Oxford, the European University Institute, Sorbonne-Paris I, the London School of Economics, the University of Lyon and the University of Amsterdam. Part of the Ius Publicum project and editor (2002-2009) of the Revista Española de Derecho Europeo.

Albert SÁNCHEZ GRAELLS

Albert SÁNCHEZ GRAELLS

Dr. Albert Sánchez Graells (born 1980) is Lecturer in Public Law at the Law School of the University of Hull (UK). Albert holds an LLB in Law (Nebrija, Valedictorian) and a BA in Business Administration and Management (Nebrija, Valedictorian), as well as a European Doctorate in Law (Autónoma de Madrid, summa cum laude). Prior to joining Hull, Albert was Lecturer in European and Commercial Law at the Law Faculty of the Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid, Spain), as well as Director of its Master in International and European Business Law. Albert has spent significant research time at the Library of Congress (Washington, USA), the Center for Competition Law and Policy of the University of Oxford (UK) and the Law Department of the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). His teaching and research interests are in law and economics, especially regarding competition and public procurement law. His main publication to date is “Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules” (Hart Publishing, 2011).

 

Norbert REICH

Norbert REICH

Prof. (em.) Dr. Dr. h.c., University of Bremen

Short CV

Norbert Reich, born on 9.98.1937 in Berlin, is Professor (Emeritus) of Comparative and EU Economic Law at Bremen University. He received his Dr. Iur. in 1966, his Habilitation about ‘Sozialismus und Zivilrecht’, both University of Frankfurt/Main in 1972, and his Dr. h.c. from the University of Helsinki in 2000. He conducted studies in law and political science in Frankfurt (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Georgetown University, Washington DC (USA) 1964-1965, and at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, 1968-1972. His career includes posts as Full Professor at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg (1972-1978); Full Professor (1978-1982) and Dean (1979-1981) at the Law Faculty II Hamburg; Director of the Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik, University of  Bremen (1982-1991); Dean of Bremen Law School (1995/6) and Professor till his retirement in 2005. He took leave as Rector of the Riga Graduate School of Law from 2001-2004. In addition, Norbert Reich was Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School (1982); Université de Montpellier (1984), Sydney Law School (1991); Université de Fribourg (1997), Universität Luzern/ both Switzerland (2006-2009), Tartu (2006-2008), Vilnius (Lithuania 2008), Leuven (Belgium 2008), Braudel Senior Research Fellow, EUI Florenz (2009), Groningen (2013/14). He was President of ELFA (European Law Faculties Association), 2000-2002 and of IACCL (International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law) 2000-2002. His current research includes citizen’s rights and free movement in the EU and Accession countries, Comparative Economic, and EU Competition and Consumer Law. Norbert Reich is the author of a great number of publications, eg Bürgerrechte in der Europäischen Union (Civil rights in the EU, 1999); Understanding EU Law; 2^nd ed. 2005 (3^rd ed. in preparation for 2014); Understanding EU Consumer Law (with Hans Micklitz, Peter Rott and Klaus Tonner), 2009,2^nd ed. 2013.Individueller und kollektiver Verbraucherschutz in der EU (2012). General Principles of EU Civil Law,2014. More than 400 contributions to law journals.

Kurzlebenslauf

Norbert Reich, geboren am 9.9.1937 in Berlin, ist emeritierter Professor für Zivilrecht, EU-Recht und Rechtsvergleichung der Universität Bremen. Er erhielt seinen Dr. iur. von der Universität Frankfurt im Jahre 1966. Er habilitierte sich dort im Jahre 1972 mit einer Arbeit über „Sozialismus und Zivilrecht“. Im Jahre 2000 erhielt er den Titel eines Dr. h.c. von der Universität Helsinki.

Seine juristische und sozialwissenschaftliche Ausbildung erhielt er an den Universitäten Frankfurt/M, Genf (1960), Georgetown/Wash.(DC) (1964-65) und Lomonosov in Moskau (1968/71). Seine berufliche und wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit umfasst eine ordentliche Professur an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik in Hamburg (1972-1978), die Professur für Zivil- und Wirtschaftsrecht am Reformfachbereich Rechtswissenschaft II der Universität Hamburg (1978-82), geschäftsführender Direktor des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik (1982-1991) und gleichzeitig o. Prof. an der Universität Bremen bis zur Emeritierung 2005. Zwischendurch war er beurlaubt als Rektor der Riga Graduate School of Law von 2001-2004.

Norbert Reich hatte daneben zahlreiche Gastprofessuren und Forschungsaufenthalte an ausländischen Institutionen inne, so an der Stanford Law School (1982), Montpellier (1984), Sydney Law School (1991), Universität Fribourg/Schweiz (1997), Univ. Luzern (2006-2009), Tartu (2006-2008), Vilnius (2008), Kath. Univ. Leuven (2008), Braudel Senior Research Fellow, EUI Florenz (2009), Groningen (2013/2014). Er war Präsident von ELFA (European Law Faculties Association), 2000-2002 and of IACCL (International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law) 2000-2002. Seine gegenwärtigen wissenschaftlichen Interessen befassen sich mit Bürgerrechten und Freizügigkeit in der EU, vergleichendes EU-Wirtschafts-, Zivil- und Verbraucherrecht. Seine wichtigsten Publikationen sind:  Bürgerrechte in der Europäischen Union (1999); Europäisches Verbraucherrecht (mit Hans Micklitz), 3. A. 2004; Understanding EU Law; 2^nd ed. 2005 (3^rd ed. in Vorbereitung für 2014); Understanding EU Consumer Law (mit Hans Micklitz and Peter Rott), 2009, 2nd ed. für 2014; Individueller und kollektiver Verbraucherschutz in der EU, 2012: General Principles of EU Civil Law, 2014. Daneben über 400 Veröffentlichungen in einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften.

Alexander KORNEZOV

Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union since January 2007. Master of Laws from the Sofia University, LLM in European Legal studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, Ph.D. in EU law from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Former member of the Brussels Bar Association and lawyer at Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels, where he specialized in EU trade law, WTO law and competition law. Founding member and member of the board of directors of the Bulgarian Association for European Law. Author of three books on EU law and of numerous articles.

Lecturer of EU procedural law at the Sofia University and the University of National and

World Economy, Sofia, guest lecturer at the British Law Centres. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, possesses working knowledge of Russian, as well as basic understanding of German and Arabic.

 

Juliane KOKOTT

Juliane KOKOTT

 Born 1957; law studies (Universities of Bonn and Geneva); LL.M. (American University/Washington DC); Doctor of Laws (Heidelberg University, 1985; Harvard University, 1990); Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1991); Professor of German and Foreign Public Law, International Law and European Law at the Universities of Augsburg (1992), Heidelberg (1993) and Düsseldorf (1994); Deputy Judge for the Federal Government at the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); Deputy Chairperson of the Federal Government’s Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU, 1996); Professor of International Law, International Business Law and European Law at the University of St Gallen (1999); Director of the Institute for European and International Business Law at the University of St Gallen (2000); Deputy Director of the Master of Business Law programme at the University of St Gallen (2001); Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2003.

Philipp KIIVER

Philipp KIIVER

Associate Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law, Maastricht University.

Law degree (2003) and PhD (2005) from Maastricht University; Associate Dean of the Maastricht Law Faculty (2008-2010). In 2008 he became a Veni grant laureate with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht and a member of the editorial committee of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. Author of “The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity: Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality”, London: Routledge 2012; co-author of an introduction to comparative constitutional law (“Constitutions Compared”, Intersentia, 2nd edition 2009).

 

Alfred E. KELLERMANN

Alfred E. KELLERMANN

Visiting Professor in the Law of the EU, Asser Interuniversity Institute for International Law and European Law; Senior Consultant in European Union Law and Policy Advisor and former Head EU Law Department as well as Former General Secretary, T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague).

Law Degree University of Leyden (Meester in den rechten) in 1961. Awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, New Bulgarian University (November 2002). Presented 13 October 2004 Liber Amicorum Alfred E. Kellermann: “The European Union – An Ongoing Process of Integration” .

Awarded in 2004 the Royal Knighthood of Orange (“Ridder van Oranje Nassau”).

Former Member of the Advisory Board of European Business Organization Law Review, The Hague. Member of the Scientific Board of Revista română de drept european (R.R.D.E.), Bucharest, since 2004.

Since 2011 Member of the Section European Affairs of the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD).

Visiting Fellow European University Institute Florence. As from 2013 Member of the Editorial Council of the e-journal “Russian Law in Internet”.

Team Leader and Project Director for various EU Enlargement projects.

 

Marc JAEGER

Marc JAEGER

Born 1954; law degree from the Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg; studied at the College of Europe; admitted to the Luxembourg Bar (1981); attaché de justice delegated to the office of the Public Attorney of Luxembourg (1983); Judge at the Luxembourg District Court (1984); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1986-1996); President of the Institut Universitaire International Luxembourg (IUIL); Judge at the General Court since 11 July 1996; President of the General Court since 17 September 2007.

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Participant Interviewing European Union. Wilhelm Meister in EU law

Daniel Mihail Sandru (ed.), Constantin Mihai Banu (ed.), Interviewing European Union. Wilhelm Meister in EU law, Editura Universitară, Bucharest, 2013, ISBN 978-606-591-651-7, 341 p.

Elspeth GUILD

Elspeth Guild holds a Ph.D. in sociology of law from Radboud University Nijmegen (1999) and is the author of numerous books and articles on the development of the EU, particularly in the area of justice and home affairs and the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice.

She is also Professor of European Migration Law (Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen), Solicitor Kingsley Napley London and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.

Niels Fenger

Niels Fenger

Diploma in European Law, European University Institute, Florence (1992); Doctor of Laws (2004).

Head of Section, Ministry of Justice (1992-1993); Head of Section, Ministry of Justice, Civil Office (1993-1994); Référendaire at the Court of Justice, Danish Advocate General (1994-1995); Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (1995-1996); Head of Section, Ministry of Justice, Law Department (1996-2000); Head of Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs (2001-2002); Director of the Legal Service, EFTA Surveillance Authority, Brussels (2002-2009) – he has in that capacity appeared in a considerable number of cases before the European courts; Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (2009-).

He is a qualified solicitor.

Bart DRIESSEN

Bart DRIESSEN

Member of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union.

Author of “Transparency in EU Institutional Law. A Practitioners Handbook – Second completely revised edition”, Kluwer Law International, 2012.

 

Mirjam de Mol

Mirjam de Mol

Mirjam de Mol works as a doctoral researcher at the International and European law department of the Law Faculty of Maastricht University since September 2009. Mirjam de Mol works on a PhD thesis on the ‘Direct effect of Union fundamental rights’. She obtained her Degree of Master of European Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges in 1999. She studied law at the universities of Maastricht, Uppsala and Montpellier. She graduated ‘cum laude’ in 1998. She worked as a senior lawyer at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Legal Affairs Department, European Law Division, 2003-2009). She represented the Dutch government before the Court of Justice of the EU. Until 2005 she was secretary of the Interdepartmental Committee on European Law (ICER). She furthermore worked as a lawyer at the AKD law firm (Eindhoven and Brussels, 1999-2003). Mirjam de Mol is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law and a member of the Ius Commune Research School. Since July 2009 Mirjam de Mol is also deputy justice at the Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (‘College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven’).

Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies

Professor of European Law, Faculty of Law, VU University of Amsterdam.

He was previously a lecturer at the University of Groningen (2000-2007), and a barrister in London. He also teaches at Amsterdam University College. He has taught EU law as a guest or visiting lecturer at various universities in Europe and Canada, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University. His research interests are in European integration, European constitutional law, and the relationship between trade law and non-economic interests.

He is the co-author, with Damian Chalmers and Giorgio Monti of EU Law (2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

 

Bill Davies

Dr. Bill Davies is an interdisciplinary legal historian whose work draws upon the fields of history, law and society, government, and public policy. Focused on the transnational aspects of legal ideas and systems, his more recent scholarly endeavours examine the construction and evolution of a constitutional practice of law in the European Union. More specifically, much of Davies’ research tracks the consolidation of European public law since WWII, with an emphasis on the European Court of Justice, its subtle promotion of a supreme European legal framework, and the reception of this framework in various Member States, like the United Kingdom and Germany. Such research serves as the crux of Dr. Davies’ first book, “Resisting the European Court of Justice: West Germany’s Confrontation with European Law 1949-1979”, published in June 2012. While much of Davies‘ scholarship explores the relationship between the federal constitutional ambitions of the European court and national courts in the European Union, his research and teaching interests extend beyond modern-day constitutional politics into the realm of Western legal history from ancient Greece onward. In the future, Davies hopes to embark upon research that embeds the supranational project of the European Union within the larger historical context of Western legal history.

Recent publications

• Why EU Legal History Matters – A Historian’s Response, in American University International Law Review, forthcoming 2013;

• From International Law to a European Rechtsgemeinschaft: Towards a New History of European Law, 1950-1979, Publications of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft: Baden-Baden, Accepted, Forthcoming 2013;

• Toward a New History of European Law: An Introduction in Contemporary European History, 21, 3, August 2012 (Co-author: Morten Rasmussen);

• Pushing Back: What Happens When Member States Resist the ECJ: A Multi-Modal Approach to the History of European Law in Contemporary European History, 21, 3, August 2012;

• Dealing with the Fallout: West Germany’s Response to the Solange Decision (1974) in American Consortium of European Studies Working Paper Series, July 2011, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/ACES/index.htm ;

• The Incoming Tide: Britain’s Struggle with the Supremacy of European Law 1970-1990: An Introductory Survey in American Consortium of European Studies Research Seed Grant Series, July 2011, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/ACES/index.htm;

• Bipartisanship in 20th Century Europe, Bi-Partisan Policy Center, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/news/idea-gallery/2010/06/14/bipartisanship-20th-century-europe, June 2010;

• Meek Acceptance? The West German Ministries’ Reaction to the Van Gend en Loos and Costa Decisions in Journal of European Integration History, 14, 2 January 2009, pp 57-76.

Forthcoming

• The Incoming Tide: Britain’s Ongoing Struggle with European Integration, book manuscript examining the enigmatic reception of EU law in the UK, which as a Member State is at once both a reluctant political partner and also one of the most compliant states to EU law;

• The Failure of the European Constitutionalism: The German Case. Book Chapter in forthcoming collection: Constitutionalisation in Question: Alternative Theories and New Interpretations;

• From the Cell to the Courtroom: The Remarkable Life of European Jurist Walter Much. Journal article piece to be presented for first time at EUSA 2013 conference in Baltimore.

Thomas COTTIER

Thomas COTTIER

Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern and Director of the World Trade Institute (WTI) and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern. He directs the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence) located at the WTI. He is an associate editor of several journals. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and also currently teaches at the Europa Institut Saarbrücken, and at Wuhan University, China. He was a member of the Swiss National Research Council from 1997-2004 and served on the board of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) Rome during the same period. He served the Baker & McKenzie law firm as Of Counsel from 1998 to 2005.

Prof. Cottier has a long-standing involvement in GATT/WTO activities. He served on the Swiss negotiating team of the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1993, first as Chief negotiator on dispute settlement and subsidies for Switzerland and subsequently as Chief negotiator on TRIPs. He held several positions in the Swiss External Economic Affairs Department and was the Deputy-Director General of the Swiss Intellectual Property Office. In addition to his conceptual work in the fields of services and intellectual property and legal counselling, he has also served as a member or chair of several GATT and WTO panels.