J.H.H.Weiler - Director

Professor J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School and then the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and the Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of International Lawand the International Journal of Constitutional Law. His recent publications include Un'Europa Cristiana (translated into nine languages), The Constitution of Europe (translated into seven languages), and a novella, Der Fall Steinmann.

Dr. Karine Caunes - Jean Monnet Research Fellow

Karine Caunes is Jean Monnet Research Fellow within the Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU School of Law and the coordinator of the Total Law program. She holds a Doctorate in Law from the European University Institute (Florence) and is specialized in legal theory and EU law, fields in which she has published several articles. She taught in various academic institutions such as Sciences Po Paris, the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization in Venise, the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, the University of Ljubljana, and the European University Institute where she was research assistant to Professor Wojciech Sadurski. She was also Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She participated at various research projects mainly on European industrial relations and social affairs and on the relationship between the European Union and the Member States. She was consultant for the French government during the French presidency of the European Union. Lastly, she was a founding mother of the European Journal of Legal Studies and Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law.

Emilia Berezinsky - Research Associate

Emilia Berezinsky joined the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law  as a Research Associate in April 2008.

Previously Mrs. Berezinsky held a position as a paralegal in the Legal Services Department at the New York Association for New Americans providing  legal services to recent immigrants.  Mrs. Berezinsky is bilingual in English and Russian.