Prof. Dr. Monica Claes (Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room B2.017a
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883048
Fax: + 31 43 3884907
E-mail: Monica.Claes@Maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Monica Claes is professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. She was previously Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional at Tilburg University. She studied law at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and European law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). She has a PhD from Maastricht University.
Monica’s main areas of interest are the relationship between European and national constitutional law, the development of a European constitutional space, common constitutional principles and the concept of national constitutional identity. Since 2008, she heads the European and National Constitutional Law Project EuNaCon, funded by the European Research Council, see www.eunacon.eu.
Monica is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law, a member of the Ius Commune Research School and of the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht. She is a member of De Jonge Akademie (DJA). She is on the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst) and of the Tijdschrift voor Constitutioneel Recht (TvCR). She was a member of the Royal Commission on the Review of the Constitution (Staatscommissie Grondwet, 2009-2010).
Monica teaches Comparative Constitutional Law at Maastricht Faculty of Law.
Selected publications
Monica Claes, The National Courts’ Mandate in the European Constitution (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006)
M Claes and M de Visser, ‘Reflections on comparative method in European constitutional law’, in M Adams and J Bomhoff, Reflections on comparative method in European constitutional law: An approach from the inside out (Cambridge University Press, 2011), forthcoming
M Claes and G Leenknegt, ‘A Case of Constitutional Leapfrog - Fundamental rights protection by Dutch courts, the ECJ, and the ECtHR’, accepted for publication in P Popelier and C Van den Heyning (eds), European Human Rights Protection between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice (Cambridge: Intersentia 2011), forthcoming
M Claes, ‘De Europese grondrechtenmozaïek’, in RA Wessel & RH van Ooik (eds), De Europese Unie na het Verdrag van Lissabon (Deventer: Kluwer, 2010), 151
M Claes, ‘Van Gend en Loos, de autonomie van de Europese rechtsorde en het leerstuk van de rechtstreekse werking’, in RJKB Schutgens, Canon van het Recht (Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri, 2010), 145
M Claes and M De Visser, ‘Courts United? On European judicial networks’, in B De Witte and A Vauchez, The European Legal Field (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010), forthcoming.
M Claes en G van der Schyff, ‘Towards Judicial Constitutional Review in the Netherlands?’, in G van der Schyff (ed), Constitutionalism in the Netherlands and South Africa. A Comparative Study, (Nijmegen, Wolf Legal Publishers, 2008), 123-142.
M Claes, The European Constitution and the role of national constitutional courts, in A Albi and J Ziller (eds), The European Constitution and national Constitutions: Ratification and Beyond (The Hague/London/New York: Kluwer Law International, 2007), 235-247.
