About us
J.H.H. Weiler - Director
- Joseph Straus Professor of Law
- European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor
- Director, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice
- Co-Director, Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization
- Director, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice
- Director, J.S.D. Program
Courses Taught
Law School Courses
- Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium
- J.S.D. Forum
- The Passion of the Christ: The Trial of Jesus
- International and Regional Trade Law: The Law of the WTO and NAFTA
- International Law
College Course:
- From Adam & Eve to the Trial of Jesus: Justice & Injustice in the Biblical Narrative
Research:
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- European Integration
- WTO and International Economic Law
Education
- Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1982
- LL.M., Cambridge University, 1982
- Diploma of International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law, 1978
- LL.B., Cambridge University, 1977
- B.A., Sussex University, 1976
NYU School of Law Appointments
- Director, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, 2008
- Co-Director, Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, 2008
- Director, J.S.D. Program, 2008
- Chair and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program, 2002-07
- Joseph Straus Professor of Law, 2002
- University Professor, 2002
- Director, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, 2001
- European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor, 2001
- Visiting Professor of Law, 1998
Other Appointments:
- Manley Hudson Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard Law School, 1992-2001
- Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, 1985-1992
- Professor of Law, European University Institute, Florence, 1978-1985
- Doctorates Honoris Causa, London University, Sussex University, and University of Macerata, Italy
Memberships & other Activities:
- Visiting Professor at London School of Economics
- Visiting Professor at University of Paris
- Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po)
- Visiting Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law at Heidelberg
- Visiting Professor at All Souls College, Oxford
- Visiting Professor at Chicago Law School
- Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School
- Visiting Professor at Yale Law School
- Visiting Professor at the Ortega Y Gasset Institute, Madrid
- Visiting Professor at University of Toronto
- Visiting Professor at University of Frankfurt
- Visiting Professor at University of Ljubljana
- Honorary Professor at University College, London
- Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China
- Reporter of the American Law Institute
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament
- Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law
- Founding Editor of the European Law Journal
- Founding Editor of the World Trade Review
- Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law
- Member of the Groupe des Sages
- Member of the Advisory Group of the Greek Presidency of the European Union
- Member of the WTO Panel
- Member of the NAFTA Panel
- Council Member of the Association for Hebraic Studies, AHS Institute, USA
- Member of the Advisory Board of the American Journal of International Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Common Market Studies
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Cahiers de Droit Européeen
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Common Market Law Review
- Member of the Advisory Board of the European Foreign Affairs Review
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the World Trade Review
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Columbia Journal of European Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard International Review
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Journal of International Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the (Australian) Federal Law Review
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of European Integration
- Member of the Advisory Board of the European Foreign Policy Bulletin online
- Member of the Advisory Board of the ELSA-Selected Papers of European Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Irish Journal of European Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Slovenian Law Review,
- Member of the Advisory Board of the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Journal of Public Law
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International Law and Security Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International, Comparative Law, The Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid
- Member of the Advisory Council of Interdisciplinary University Center, Herzelia, Israel
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies
- Council Member of the Centre for European Economic and Public Affairs, University College, Dublin
- Member of the Board of Management of the European Research Paper Archive
- Member of the Board of Directors of the American Journal of International Law
- Member of the Board of the Centre for the Law of the European Union at University College, London
- Member of the International Council of the Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
- Member of the International Board of the Concord Research Center at the College of Management, Israel
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre of the University of Melbourne, Australia
- Member of the International Advisory Panel of the National University of Singapore
- Member of the International Advisory Board, Queen’s University, Belfast
- Member of the International Advisory Board, the Ortega Y Gasset Institute, Madrid
Publications:
Books:
- Un’Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo, (BUR Saggi, Milano, 2003)
- Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) (ed. with I. Begg and J. Peterson)
- European Constitutionalism Beyond the State (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (with M. Wind)
- The European Court of Justice (Academy of European Law, EUI / Oxford University Press, 2001) (ed. with G. de Búrca)
- L'Italia in Europa - Profili istituzionali e costituzionali (2000) (with M. Cartabia)
- The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity?: Responses to Joschka Fischer (Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, 2000) (ed. with C. Joerges and Y. Mény)
- The Constitution of the Common Market Place: The Free Movement of Goods (1999)
- Kompetenzen Und Grundrechte--Beschränkungen Der Tabakwerbung Aus Der Sicht Des Europarechts (1999)
- The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- The European Court and National Courts: Doctrine and Jurisprudence (ed. 1998)
- Der Fall Steinmann (1998 and Supp. 2000) (with trans. Michael Cochu)
Chapters
- "European Communities – Trade Description of Sardines: Textualism and its Discontent," in The WTO Case Law of 2002 (Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- "Les droits fondamentaux et les limites fondamentales: normes communes et valeurs antagoniques dans la protection des droits de l’homme," in Quelle identité pour l’Europe? Le multiculturisme à l’épreuve (R. Kastoryano, ed., Les Presses Sciences Po, 2005)
- "Human Rights, Constitutionalism and Integration: Iconography and Fetishism," in Developing a Constitution for Europe (E.O. Eriksen , J.E. Fossum and A.J. Menéndez , eds., Routledge, 2004)
- "Europe’s Dark Legacy: Reclaiming Nationalism and Patriotism," in Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and Its Legal Traditions (N. Singh Ghaleigh and C. Joerges, ed., Hart Publishing, 2003)
- "In Defence of the Status Quo: Europe’s Constitutional Sonderweg," in European Constitutionalism Beyond the State (J.H.H. Weiler and M. Wind, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- "EC – Asbestos. European Communities – Measures Affecting Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products," in The WTO Case Law of 2001 (H. Horn and P. Mavroidis, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- "Diritti Umani, Costituzionalismo e Integrazione: Iconografia e Feticismo," in Diritti e Confini: Dalle Costituzioni Nazionali alla Carta di Nizza (M. Comba, ed., Edizioni di Comunità, 2002)
- "A Constitution for Europe?: Some Hard Choices," in Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals (J.H.H. Weiler et al., ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2002)
- "The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement," in Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (R. Porter et al. , ed., Brookings Institution Press, 2001)
- "Cain and Abel: Convergence and Divergence in International Trade Law," in The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (J.H.H. Weiler, ed., Oxford University Press, 2000)
- "Why Should Europe Be a Democracy: The Corruption of Political Culture and the Principle of Constitutional Tolerance," in The Europeanisation of Law: The Legal Effects of European Integration (F. Snyder, ed., Hart Publishing, 2000)
- "Sons and Haters...!," in Liber Amicorum in Honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley, Judicial Review in European Union Law (Antonio Bavasso and David O'Keefe, ed., Kluwer Law International, 2000)
Articles:
- "Derechos Humanos, Constitucionalismo e Integración: Iconografía y Fetichismo," 3 Puente@Europa 34 (2005)
- "On the Power of the Word: Europe’s Constitutional Iconography," 3 International Journal of Constitutional Law 173 (2005)
- "Quella Parola che “Gratta”…," 24 Quaderni costituzionali 791 (2004)
- "The Geology of International Law – Governance, Democracy and Legitimacy," 64 ZaöRV 547 (2004)
- "Back to the Future: Europe as Community," 28 Collegium 43 (2003)
- "Constitución europea y tradición cristiana," 271 Revista de Occidente 87 (2003) (with F. Rubio Llorente)
- "Reassessing the Fundamentals: Integration in an Expanding EU," 40 Journal of Common Market Studies 555 (2002)
- "Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, and Autonomous – All at the Same Time? (An Epistolary Exchange)," 34 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 729 (2002) (with R. Stith)
- "The Promised Constitutional Land," 12 King’s College Law Journal 5 (2001)
- "On Superficiality and Legal Education," 25 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 421 (2001) (with Y. Friedman)
Short Articles:
- "The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 9/00 (2001)
- "Federalism and Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg," Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 10/00 (2001)
- An 'Ever Closer Union' in Need of a Human Rights Policy: The European Union and Human Rights." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No 1/99, Cambridge, MA
- "Mancini v. Weiler: Europe-The Case for Statehood … And the Case Against: An Exchange." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 6/98, Cambridge, MA
