Profile

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Deirdre Curtin is Professor of European Law of the University of Amsterdam (since 2008) . She also holds part-time the Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht (since 2003).  

 

She is director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), a centre of excellence of the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. As research leader she co-directs ACELG’s research programme on ‘Compound Constitution(s) in Europe’. ACELG comprises a group of some 25 persons with internationally recognized scholars in the field of European law and European governance, including a large and growing group of Ph.D. fellows.  

 

In 2003 she was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2007 she was awarded the top-level Spinoza prize by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research in the field of European law and governance, the only time it has been awarded to a lawyer. In 2008 she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in law by University College Dublin.  

 

Currently, she co-chairs the organization committee of the ‘Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research’, to be held at Utrecht University on 7 – 9 June 2012. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from North-America and Europe in order to exchange the latest findings and insights concerning transparency and open government.

ACELG + ACELG Research Programme

Utrecht School of Governance

NWO - Spinoza

Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research

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Research

Current research projects include government secrecy, executive power of the EU, open government of the EU, multi-level governance and public accountability in Europe, living constitutions in Europe and the codification of European administrative law.

Inaugural Lecture of October 2011: 'Top Secret Europe'

On the role of accountability in democratic governance, she has co-edited (with Peter Mair and Yannis Papadopoulos) a volume, titled ‘Accountability and European Governance’ (Routledge, West European Politics Series 2012).  The volume attempts to position a broad understanding of the notion of accountability within the overall context of the evolving political system of governance in Europe and in particular in the European Union.

On multi-level governance and public accountability in Europe she co-directs a research project funded (in 2002) by the Dutch Scientific Organization with political scientists at the Utrecht School of Governance. She was research group leader of the thematic group “Democracy and Accountability in the EU” of the CONNEX funded network of excellence (2004-2008).

Multi-level governance and public accountability

On the executive power of the EU, Deirdre Curtin has in 2009 published a monograph with Oxford University Press, Executive Power of the European Union. Law, Practices and the Living Constitution. She supervises a number of research projects and doctoral dissertations related to this subject. She directs the research project Constitutionalising Accumulated Executive Power in Europe, funded by the Dutch Scientific Organization since 2008. Linked with this is a research program on open government in Europe (started in 2009), which she directs, with political science and legal researchers in both Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Open Government in the EU

On the content of European administrative lawshe is a team leader within the ReNEUAL Network on rule making in Europe, a Research Network on EU Administrative Law created in 2009 that brings togetherexperts from different national backgrounds witha view to building a Common Framework of Reference on European Administrative Procedural Law.

 

Deirdre Curtin is one of the project leaders on the cross-disciplinary project ‘The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking’ which investigates the phenomenon of rulemaking in the postnational sphere from the perspectives of European public law, European private law and international public law. The project is one of the University of Amsterdam ’s research priority projects.

ReNEUAL

The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking

ECLN

Teaching

Currently taught courses include Europees Recht, European Constitutional Law and EU Administrative Law and Governance.

Europees Recht

European Constitutional Law

EU Administrative Law and Governance