The Law Department provides a stimulating and supportive environment bringing together LLM researchers, doctoral researchers, post-doctoral researchers, professors and visitors from more than 35 countries. In broad terms, members of the Department focus on what can be termed Transnational Law. This includes Public International Law, European Public and Private Law and Comparative Law, but also more amorphous forms of legal ordering that transcend the state in multiple and evolving ways.
The Department is methodologically diverse, and professors and researchers adopt many different approaches, including doctrinal, critical, law-in-context, normative, empirical, sociolegal, historical and mixed methods. They frequently draw insights from other disciplines and many researchers undertake research which is theoretical in its orientation.
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As an international organisation by nature, the EUI, including the Law Department, has no dominant research or legal culture. Rather, it provides an open, multilingual, and welcoming international environment. Each member of the faculty brings their specialism and focus to the Department’s principal research strands.
Law department research themes
Full-time Professors
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Loïc Azoulai
Full-time Professor
Chair in Law and Social Europe
Department of Law
Research themes
European law and institutions,
Law and society,
Migration,
Citizenship,
Philosophy of Law
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Arnulf Becker Lorca
Full-time Professor
Co-Director of the Academy of European Law
Department of Law
Research themes
Global governance,
Climate change governance,
Human rights,
Global, imperial and colonial history,
Colonialism,
Latin America,
International law and international relations,
Comparative international law,
Theory of international law,
History of international law,
Spanish Empire,
Politics of international law,
Eurocentrism and international law,
Critical approaches to international law,
Public international law,
Third World approaches to international law
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Deirdre Curtin
Full-time Professor
Department of Law
Dean of Graduate Studies
Office of the Dean of Studies
Research themes
European law and institutions,
EU constitutional and administrative law,
Protection of fundamental rights in Europe,
Accountability of European governance,
Privacy and security in a global context,
Transparency and secrecy in law and practice
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Gráinne De Búrca
Full-time Professor
Co-Director of the Academy of European Law
Department of Law
Research themes
European law and institutions,
European Union (EU),
Democracy,
Human rights,
EU governance,
Gender equality,
Transnational governance
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Martijn Hesselink
Full-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Private law,
Constitutional law,
Consumer law,
Social justice,
Democracy,
Political theory,
Legal theory,
Critical theory,
European private law
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Sarah Nouwen
Full-time Professor
Department of Law
Co-Director of the Academy of European Law
Academy of European Law
Research themes
Public international law,
Politics of international law,
International criminal law,
International human rights law,
Transitional justice,
Peace negotiations, peacebuilding, peacemaking,
Third World approaches to international law,
International law and international relations,
International law and constitutional law,
Anthropological approaches to international law,
Qualitative empirical research in international law,
Critical approaches to international law,
History of international law,
Eurocentrism and international law,
Africa
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Nicolas Petit
Head of Department
Full-time Professor
Director of Research
Department of Law
Research themes
Antitrust Law,
Artificial intelligence (AI),
Intellectual property (IP), intellectual property rights,
Law and technology,
Law and economics
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Sergio Puig De La Parra
Full-time Professor - Joint Chair
Department of Law
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Research themes
International economic law,
Trade law,
Business and human rights,
Empirical legal methods, empirical legal studies,
International human rights law,
Development
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Joanne Scott
Full-time Professor
Department of Law
Co-Director of the Academy of European Law
Academy of European Law
Research themes
European environmental law and regulation,
Climate change law and governance,
EU external relations,
EU governance,
International environmental law
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Mathias Siems
Director of Graduate Studies
Full-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Corporate and securities law,
Comparative law,
European private law,
Law and economics,
Empirical legal methods, empirical legal studies,
Transnational private law, private international law
Part-time Professors
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Giuseppe Contissa
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
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Neha Jain
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
International human rights law,
Public international law,
Theory of international law,
Comparative international law,
International criminal law,
International human rights law,
Humanitarian law, international humanitarian law,
Criminal law theory,
Diversity
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Claire Kilpatrick
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Social dimension of EU,
Economic and monetary union: legal and social aspects,
Labour and social rights as human and fundamental rights,
Public interest lawyering in Europe,
Equality and anti-discrimination law,
Court of Justice of the European Union
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Francesca Lagioia
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Computable law,
Artificial intelligence and the law,
Human rights,
Privacy and surveillance,
Consumer protection,
Discrimination and marginalisation,
Democracy,
Digital transformation,
Artificial intelligence (AI),
Technological change and society,
Law and technology,
Internet, online platforms,
Information and disinformation,
Intellectual property (IP), intellectual property rights
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Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
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Urska Sadl
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Theory and practice of judicial decision making,
Empirical legal methods, empirical legal studies,
International courts,
Court of Justice of the European Union
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Giovanni Sartor
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Computable law,
Artificial intelligence and the law,
Intellectual property (IP), intellectual property rights
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Martin Scheinin
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
Research themes
Public international law,
International human rights law,
Comparative constitutional law
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Anna Masutti
Part-time Professor
Department of Law
For a more detailed indication of the supervisory interests of each Professor, please visit their profiles