Biography

In his work, Jacob van de Beeten focuses on administrative law, (EU) constitutional law and legal philosophy. He approaches the study of law from a doctrinal, historical, and conceptual perspective, asking questions about the authority of law, the world making capacity of legal concepts and the political dimension of seemingly neutral and technical legal language.

Jacob wrote his PhD thesis at the London School of Economics (LSE). His thesis offers a comprehensive account of systemic principles in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Jacob argues that these principles are used to justify the authority of EU law in a self-referential manner and stabilise the EU legal order in a highly dynamic, and ultimately incoherent, fashion. Previously, Jacob studied at Leiden University, Sciences Po Paris and Bard College Berlin.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Jacob will write a book proposal based on his PhD research and begin a new research project on the voices of European Constitutionalism in a historical perspective. In particular, he aims to write an intellectual history of Piere Pescatore's Law of Integration (1974), examining the core concepts and ideas that informed Pescatore's highly original and influential account of the European Community and its law.

Mentor

• Loïc Azoulai