B. de Witte (Professor of European Union Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room A1.014
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883329
E-mail: bruno.dewitte@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Bruno de Witte is professor of European Union law at Maastricht University, and part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He is co-director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law. Previously, from 2000 to February 2010, he was professor of EU law at the EUI, and co-director of the Academy of European Law there, and before that, from 1989 to 2000, he was professor at Maastricht University. He studied law at the University of Leuven and the College of Europe and obtained a doctorate at the European University Institute in 1985, on ‘The Protection of Linguistic Diversity through Fundamental Rights’.
Bruno De Witte’s principal interest is the constitutional law of the European Union, with a particular focus on the relation between international, European and national law, the protection of fundamental rights, law-making and treaty revision procedures, internal market law and non-market values. His second main field of interest is the law of cultural diversity, with a particular focus on language law, the protection of minorities and the relation between market integration and cultural diversity in European Union law.
Bruno is also a member of the Ius Commune Research School. He is a member of the editorial board of the European Law Journal, the European Human Rights Law Review, the Revista Española de Derecho Europeo, and the Revista de Llengua I Dret. He is a member of the advisory board of the European Journal of International Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the European Journal of Law Reform, and the Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, and correspondent of the Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario.
He currently teaches the course of Advanced EU law in the Master programmes of Maastricht University. He has supervised some 35 doctoral dissertations, partly at the European University Institute and partly at Maastricht University.
Selected representative publications
Editor of the volume Ten Reflections on the Constitutional Treaty for Europe (2003) and co-editor of the volumes, Social Rights in Europe (2005), Constitución Europea y Constituciones nacionales (2005), Genesis and Destiny of the European Constitution (2007), The Framework Convention for National Minorities - a Useful Pan-European Instrument? (2008), and EU Foreign Relations Law – Constitutional Fundamentals (2008).
