Senior Emile Noël Fellows
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Dieter Grimm
Dieter Grimm was born in Kassel, Germany, on May 11, 1937. After completing school in Kassel, he studied law and political science in Frankfurt (M), Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Harvard. From 1967 until 1979 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt. From 1979 until 1999 he was Professor […]
Research Project:
The Global Impact of the Weimar Constitution and Weimar Consitutional Thought. In 1988, I published the first volume of a […]
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Hèctor López Bofill
Professor Hèctor López Bofill has built a nearly 30-year academic career, primarily at the Department of Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), distinguished by significant contributions in teaching, research, and academic management. Contact: hl6590@nyu.edu
Research Project:
The Development of the Rule of Law in the European Tradition. This research investigates the historical evolution and conceptual foundations […]
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Jacob Werksman
Jacob Werksman has, since 2012, served as Principal Adviser to the Directorate General for Climate Action (DG-CLIMA) of the European Commission, where his work focuses on the international aspects of European climate policy. He is Head of Delegation for the European Union to the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and […]
Research Project:
Searching for Opportunities for Trans-Atlantic Cooperation on Climate, Energy, Trade and Industrial Policy in the Current Geopolitical Contex. In recent […]
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Jan Komárek
Jan Komárek is a Professor of EU law at the University of Copenhagen (currently on leave). In 2025-2027 Jan holds Donatio Universitatis Carolinae Chair at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, where he pursues a project on the “third role” of a university in a polarised society. Before coming to Copenhagen, Jan was […]
Research Project:
Constitutional scholarship under pressure: integrating freedom, power, and accountability for resilience. Constitutional scholarship plays an important role in law and […]
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Johann Justus Vasel
Johann Justus Vasel is professor for public law with a focus on artificial intelligence at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. He received his habilitation and doctorate from the University of Hamburg, did his legal traineeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal and completed his master’s degree at New York University. He was a Max Weber Fellow […]
Research Project:
A Digital Leviathan? – Security, Safety, and Surveillance in the Age of AI. Winds of Change – The Transformation of […]
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Nora Markard
Nora Markard is a Professor of Public Law and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity and Pluralism” at the University of Münster, Germany. Her recent work has focused on inequalities, social rights, and migration, across constitutional and international law. Her most recent book, “Jura not alone” (with Ronen Steinke, 2024), […]
Research Project:
Holistic Liberty and the Right to Health. Using the right to health as an example, the project aims to develop […]
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Óscar Sánchez Muñoz
Óscar Sánchez Muñoz is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valladolid (Spain) and a substitute member of the Venice Commission representing Spain. He has been pursuing his academic career for thirty years, focusing his research on electoral law, political finance, political parties, freedom of expression, and federalism. He has authored more than […]
Research Project:
The Global Digital Oligarchy: Implications for Democracy and the Rule of Law. Over the past two decades, the digital transformation […]
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Yasmine Ergas
Yasmine Ergas is the Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Co-Director of the Concentration in Human Rights, Gender and Equity at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Among other commitments at Columbia, she serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Institute of Global Politics and on […]
Research Project:
After Gender: On plasticity, humanity and the return of the “woman question”. Is the era of “gender” over? This question […]
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Alezini Loxa
Alezini Loxa is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in EU law at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on EU law, legal history, constitutionalism and fundamental rights protection. She holds a PhD in EU law from Lund University, Sweden and an LL.M. and LL.B. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During her PhD studies […]
Research Project:
Revisiting the Normative Foundations of EU Migration Law. In EU politics migration is presented both as the reason behind national […]
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Elie Tassel-Maurizi
Born and raised in Paris, France. After majoring in French in high school, began university studies in English language, literature, and civilization, before returning to the original plan of pursuing law. Completed six years at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, graduating summa cum laude with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in comparative and international law. Earned a […]
Research Project:
Testing the Impossible: A Legal Framework for Forgiveness in Transitional States. Over the past thirty years, forgiveness has evolved into […]
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Jacob van de Beeten
Jacob’s research focuses on the conceptual and historical foundations of European Union law. He has been educated in The Netherlands, Germany, France and the United Kingdom and has completed his PhD degree at the London School of Economics. His thesis identifies a systemic orientation in the case law of the Court of Justice of the […]
Research Project:
Forgotten Visions: Imagining the Nature of European Union Law (1950-1965) . My research project aims to provide the first intellectual […]
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Maciej Krogel
Maciej Krogel is a lecturer in European Law at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies. In 2024 Maciej defended his PhD thesis, titled The Intellectual Sources of the European Union’s Response to the […]
Research Project:
Constructing the Theoretical Framework of Knowledge Formation in the Context of the European Union’s Response to the Rule of Law […]
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Michela Leggio
Michela Leggio is a legal scholar specialising in Administrative and Public Law, with an interdisciplinary focus on the digital transformation of the public sector. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she earned her PhD in 2023. In recent years, she has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University (2022) […]
Research Project:
Artificial Intelligence in Research: The Role of Central Regulation and University Autonomy. Digitalisation – particularly through Artificial Intelligence (AI) – […]
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Rosalba Famà
Rosalba Famà is a lawyer and in January 2025 she received a PhD summa cum laude in European Union law from Bocconi University. Her PhD dissertation focused on the EU budget following Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine, and the principle of financial solidarity. She is a research fellow at the Bocconi Lab for European […]
Research Project:
The evolution of the principle of budgetary balance in the European Union following Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. The […]