Maria Weimer
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room C3.304
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3882026
E-mail: maria.weimer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Maria Weimer teaches at the Department of International and European Law at Maastricht Law Faculty. She also participates in the EU funded project on responsible food innovations (INPROFOOD). She studied law at the Université d’Aix-Marseille and at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her law degree among the top 5 % of her year. Maria carried out her PhD research at the European University Institute in Florence where she wrote a thesis on the European governance of genetically modified organisms and administrative constitutionalism, which she expects to defend in winter 2011/2012. She was a trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission (2008/2009). Since 2010 she acts as both a permanent correspondent on biotechnology regulation and a reviewer for the European Journal of Risk Regulation.
Maria’s main areas of research are EU institutional law, EU administrative governance and constitutionalism, and EU risk regulation with a special focus on EU food law. She participates in the interdisciplinary research project RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme, and co-ordinated at the Arena Centre in Oslo, Norway. In the past, Maria worked as a research assistant and tutor at the Department for Public Law of the University of Hamburg, mainly researching questions of German administrative and constitutional law.
In Maastricht Maria is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law. She undertakes research on EU risk governance, and provides for the legal input on the part of the Faculty of Law to the interdisciplinary research project INPROFOOD (Towards Inclusive Research Programming for Sustainable Food Innovations) funded under EU 7th Framework Programme, and co-ordinated by the Hohenheim University, Germany. She teaches EU law and EU food law and regulation.
Selected representative publications
- "EU Risk Governance of ‘Cloned Food’ – Regulatory Uncertainty between Trade and Non-Trade” In: Marjolein Van Asselt, Esther Versluis and Ellen Vos (eds) Science and Politics in EU Risk Governance: Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, forthcoming 2012
- "Administrative Constitutionalism and European Conflicts Law” in: Christian Joerges and Tommi Ralli (eds) After Globalisation – New Patters of Conflicts, RECON Report No 15 (Arena, Oslo, 2011)
- “What Price Flexibility? – The recent Commission Proposal to allow for national ‘opt-outs’ on GMO cultivation under the Deliberate Release Directive and the Comitology post-Lisbon”, Vol. 1 (4) European Journal of Risk Regulation (2010), 345
- “Applying Precaution in EU Authorization of Genetically Modified
Products – Challenges and Suggestions for Reform,” Vol 16 (5) European Law Journal (2010), 624
- “Regulating Animal Cloning under WTO Law – Policy Choice versus Science,” Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 20 (2009), 291
