European Union Law Course 2018 Faculty

Kieran Bradley is the Special Adviser to the European Court of Justice on Brexit and Staff Matters. He was previously a judge of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal, and before that a member of, and latterly Director in, the Legal Service of the European Parliament. He has also served as a référendaire at the European Court of Justice, and as a member of different groups of experts involved in the drafting of the European Constitution. Kieran holds a BA in Legal Science from Trinity College, Dublin, a post-graduate diploma from the College of Europe, Bruges, and an LLB and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, the College of Europe, Bruges, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Evelien Brouwer is Senior Researcher/Lecturer at the Migration Law Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She defended her PhD thesis on the right to effective remedies for third-country nationals in the Schengen Information System at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2007. Her current research involves EU asylum and migration law and, more specifically, border and visa policies and the use of large-scale databases in the EU, with a focus on the right to privacy and data protection, non-discrimination, and effective remedies. For her research on mutual trust in EU migration law, she was awarded a NWO-grant (Dutch Organisation for Science) in 2010. Currently, she is participating in the Horizon 2020 project, CEASEVAL (Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development). Evelien Brouwer is a member of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs and the Meijers Committee. 

Bruno de Witte is Professor of European Union Law at Maastricht University, co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law, and also a part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. His main fields of research and publications are constitutional change in the European Union; relations between international, European and national law; protection of fundamental rights in Europe; the rights of minorities, language law and cultural diversity in Europe; internal market law and non-market values; decision-making and legal instruments of EU law.

Neil Walker holds the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh. His main area of expertise is constitutional theory. He has published extensively on the constitutional dimension of legal order at sub-state, state, supranational and global levels. He has also published at length on the relationship between security, legal order and political community. He maintains a more general interest in broader questions of legal theory as well as in various substantive dimensions of UK and EU public law. Neil was previously Professor of Legal and Constitutional Theory at the University of Aberdeen (1996-2000), and Professor of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence (2000-2008), where he was also the first Dean of Studies (2002-2005). He has also held various visiting appointments, including the Eugene Einaudi Chair of European Studies, University of Cornell (2007); Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Toronto (2007), Global Professor of Law, New York University (2011-2012), Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law, Yale University (2014-2015), International  Francqui  Chair, University of Leuven, (2017) His most recent books are Intimations of Global Law (Cambridge, 2015) and The Scottish Independence Referendum: Constitutional and Political Implications (co-editor, Oxford, 2016).

Ramses A. Wessel is Professor of International and European Law and Governance and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He specializes in EU external relations law and has written and co-edited several books in that area, including The European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy: A Legal Institutional Perspective (1999), Multilevel Regulation and the EU (2008), International Law as Law of the European Union (2011),  Between Autonomy and Dependence: The EU under the Influence of International Organizations (2013), EU External Relations Law (2014),  The European Union and International Dispute Settlement (2017), and numerous other publications in the field of international and European law. Ramses chairs the standing Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law (CAVV) of the government of The Netherlands, is a founding member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) and serves as an Editor of a number of academic journals in the field. https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/pa/staff/wessel/.