Faculty Areas of Supervision

Deirdre Curtin, Joint Law / RSCAS Professor of European Union Law. Research themes: European Law and Institutions; EU Constitutional and Administrative law; Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe; Accountability of European Governance; Privacy and Security in a Global Context; Transparency and Secrecy in Law and Practice

Peter Drahos, Professor of Law and Governance. Research themes: Property theory; Intellectual property rights; Regulatory and governance theory;Trade agreements and development; Law and technology.

Gábor Halmai, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law. Research themes: Comparative constitutional law; Globalization of constitutionalism; Constitutional-making in democratic transitions; Comparative judicial review; Transitional justice; Religious rights; Freedom of expression.

Martijn Hesselink, Professor of Transnational Law and Theory. Research Themes: European private law; private law theory;  transnational law and justice; transnational law and democracy; critical approaches to law.

Neha Jain, Professor of Public International Law. Research Themes: Public International Law; Theory of international Law; Comparative international law; International criminal Law; International human rights Law; International humanitarian Law; Criminal law theory.

Claire Kilpatrick, Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law. Research themes: EU social law and policy; EU internal market and social protection; Comparative labour and employment law; Equality and anti-discrimination law; labour rights as human rights; Globalization and labour.

Jürgen Kurtz, Professor of International Economic Law. Research themes: International economic law including the World Trade Organization and bilateral and regional trade and/or investment agreements, Legal hermeneutics and jurisprudential borrowing in public international law, Political economy, Development theory.

Sarah Nouwen, Professor of Public International Law. Reseach themes: Public International Law, Politics of International Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, Transitional Justice, Peace negotiations / peacekeeping / peacebuilding / peacemaking, Third World Approaches to International Law, International Law – International Relations, International Law – Constitutional Law, Anthropological Approaches to International Law, Qualitative Empirical Research in International Law, Critical Approaches to International Law, History of International Law.

Nicolas Petit, Professor of European Competition Law, LAW/RSCAS. Research themes: Antitrust Law; Intellectual Property; Law in a Context of Technological Change; Theory of Regulation; Law and Economics; Law and AI. 

Urška Šadl, Professor of Law. Research Themes: Theory and practice of judicial decision making; Empirical legal methods; International courts; Court of Justice of the European Union.

Giovanni Sartor, Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory. Research themes: Legal informatics; Legal theory; Computer law; Law and automation in socio-technical systems.

Joanne Scott, Professor of European Law. Research Themes: Environmental law, climate change law, EU extraterritoriality, new modes of EU governance and relationships between different legal orders. 

Mathias Siems, Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation. Research themes: Corporate and Securities Law; Comparative Law; European Private Law; Private International Law; Law & Economics; Empirical Legal Studies.