Biography
Juan Ignacio Signes de Mesa is a legal secretary (‘référendaire’) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), where he has worked in fields such as EU sanctions and restrictive measures-EFSP, international trade, competition law and state aid, anti-dumping, intellectual property, fundamental rights, banking and financial supervision, free movement and environmental law.
He is ‘Visiting Professor’ at the College of Europe (Bruges) and ‘Scientific Coordinator’ within the Executive Programme of the Florence School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute. He also teaches EU substantive and procedural law at Universidad Carlos III and Universidad Pontificia Comillas–ICADE (Madrid).
He holds an LLB and PhD from Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and LLM degrees from the College of Europe and the Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA).
He is the director of the Academia de Práctica Jurídica Europea (Madrid, www.apje.eu), and also (co)director of several courses on the Court of Justice of the European Union and its case-law within the academic programs of the Universidad del País Vasco (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, Spain).
He is a member (currently non-active) of the New York Bar and the Madrid Bar, where he co-presides the ‘EU and International Law’ section.
Since 2016, he holds the title of ‘Académico correspondiente’ of the Spanish Royal Academy of Law and Jurisprudence.
He is the author of several publications in leading editorials and legal journals, in particular the books Competition Law (Aranzadi, 2024 SPA), Droit procédural des aides d’État (Larcier, 2019 FR), and Code of European Legal Practice (Iustel, 2017 SPA). Furthermore, he is the editor of the collective book European Procedural Law (Iustel, 2024 SPA), prefaced by Prof K. Lenaerts, President of the CJEU.
He regularly participates upon invitation in European and international fora on topics related to EU law and policy.