Guest Lecture: Executive Power of the European Union

University of Amsterdam Law Professor Deirdre Curtin will speak Thursday evening on the executive power of the European Union, part of the ongoing 2010 Jean Monnet Module on European Integration guest lecture series hosted by CEU's Department of Public Policy.

Curtain is a top expert in European law and governance, holds a part-time Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht. In 2003, she was elected as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science, where she is on the management team of the law section. In 2007 she was awarded the top-level Spinoza prize by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research in the field of European law and governance, the first time the prize had been awarded to a lawyer. In 2008 she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in law by University College Dublin.

The lecture will be chaired by Department of Public Policy Professor Ewe Puetter. It begins at 5:20 in the Monument Building, Room 201.