Biography

Gráinne de Búrca specialises in European Union law, human rights, and global public law. She is currently a Professor of Law at the European University Institute (EUI), on leave from her position as the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at New York University (NYU), where she has been a faculty member since 2011.

Prof. De Búrca's academic journey includes tenured positions at Harvard Law School and Fordham Law School, and an earlier tenure at the EUI from 1998 to 2005. Her career began at the University of Oxford, where she was a lecturer and Fellow of Somerville College from 1990 to 1998, and served as Deputy Director of the Centre for European and Comparative Law.

Her scholarly contributions include co-editing the Oxford University Press series "Oxford Studies in European Law" and co-authoring the leading textbook "EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials." Her research focuses on the intersection of law and politics, European constitutional law, and human rights. She has authored or edited numerous books and articles, and is a co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I·CON)

In 2016 she was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2022 as an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy .

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group
• Constitutional interpretation in emergencies in Europe

Supervisees

• Alexander Schuster
• Anaïs Brucher
• Andrijana Zivic
• Anubhav Shekhar
• Arianda Jonāne
• Marco Mauer
• Yamam Al-Zubaidi

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• DE BURCA, Grainne; KILPATRICK, Claire; SCOTT, Joanne (2022), Questioning the EU's 'principled openness' to international law : an examination of the Court's reception of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, Contribution to book
• DE BURCA, Grainne; YOUNG, Katherine G. (2023), The (mis)appropriation of human rights by the new global right : an introduction to the symposium, Article
• DE BURCA, Grainne (2022), Legal mobilization for human rights, Book
• DE BURCA, Grainne (2021), Reframing human rights in a turbulent era, Book
• DE BURCA, Grainne (2015), Reframing international human rights regimes, Video
• DE BURCA, Grainne (2015), Human rights experimentalism, Other