European Union Law Course 2020 Faculty

Ségolène Barbou des Places is Professor of Public and European Law at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 University. She is also a Fellow of the Institut Migration, and teaches at La Sapienza University in Rome. She has been a Marie Curie Fellow and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. She is a founding editor of European Papers. A Journal on Law and Integration. Professor Barbou des Places has published on a variety of subjects in the fields of European integration, migration law and legal epistemology. She currently investigates, and tries to conceptualise, the transformation of mobility law in Europe. 

Sacha Garben is Professor of EU Law at the Legal Studies department of the College of Europe, Bruges. She is on leave from the European Commission, where she was appointed as an official in 2013, and where she worked as a Legal Officer on EU labour law until joining the College of Europe in 2015. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in 2010, winning the Jacqueline Suter Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in European Law 2009 – 2011. In 2008, she spent a semester at Harvard Law School as a visiting scholar. She has previously worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the London School of Economics. Sacha has published on a range of constitutional and substantive EU law issues, with a particular focus on social law, education law, and competences in the EU legal order. She is the General Editor (together with L. Gormley and K. Purnhagen) of the OUP Online Encyclopedia of EU Law (forthcoming in 2020).

Martin Ruhs is Chair in Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute. He is on leave from the University of Oxford. Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. His books include The Price of Rights. Regulating International Labour Migration (Princeton University Press, 2013), Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-Making on Migration and Integration (Oxford University Press, 2019, co-edited with Kristof Tamas and Joakim Palme), and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2010, co-edited with B. Anderson). He is currently working on a research monograph on “multinational corporations, migrant labour and the nation state”, and a collaborative research project (with Joakim Palme and colleagues at Uppsala University) on “national institutions and the politics of free movement in the European Union”, funded by Horizon2020.