Executive Power of the European Union
Date:
March 11, 2010 - 17:15 - 19:00 Event type:
Lecture Event audience:
Open to the Public External presenter(s):
Professor Deidre Curtin (Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam) CEU host unit(s):
Department of Public Policy 2010 GUEST LECTURES of the Jean Monnet Module on European Integration
Executive Power of the European Union
Deirdre Curtin is Professor of European Law of the University of Amsterdam and director of the newly established Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance (ACELG). She also holds part-time the Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht. She is an elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW, since 2003) where she is a member of 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 only time it has been awarded to a lawyer. In 2008 she was conferred with an honorary doctorate in law by University College Dublin.