Pauline Melin (P.V.M.)

Pauline Melin is Assistant Professor in EU Law at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on social security rights of migrants, free movement regimes for EU citizens and third-country nationals, and governance frameworks on free movement. She currently coordinates and teaches a bachelor course on Internal Market and EU Competition Law as well as teaches a course on EU Citizenship Rights and Remedies.

Since January 2025, she is the coordinator of the LL.M. in European Law composed of one general programme and four specializations. She is also the Moot Court Coordinator for the Faculty of Law where she coordinates coaches, students, and support staff involved in the 17 moot court competitions the Faculty participates in. Pauline is also a member of the management team of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) where she organizes monthly research seminars with external guest speakers.

She defended her PhD at the same university on the External Dimension of EU Social Security Coordination in 2018, supported by an ITN Marie Curie Action grant (TRANSMIC). Prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor, she has been a lecturer in European Law at Maastricht University and a post-doc research at KU Leuven researching on EU social law with Prof. Elise Muir. In addition, Pauline is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Social Security for which she reports on the CJEU cases in the field of EU social security law.