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Ramses A. Wessel

Professional functions

Full Professor of the Law of the European Union and other International Organizations, Dean (ad interim) at the School of Management and Governance and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies. Additional functions include:

Editor-in-Chief and founder of the International Organizations Law Review;

Editor of Nijhoff Studies in European Union Law

Member of the editorial boards of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Vrede en Veiligheid; the Internationale Spectator, and the CLEER Working Papers series

Member of the standing governmental Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law (CAVV);

Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS); Senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG) and program leader at the Research School Ius Commune;

Fellow of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of the Law (HiiL); and Member of the Governing Board of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) in The Hague;

Member of the International Steering Committee for the European Union in International Affairs (EUIA) conferences

Where to find me

>30 March 2012: Presentation Legal Effects of International Law in the EU Legal Order, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Warsaw, Poland

>15-16 March 2012: Presentation Common Foreign and Security Policy in the

EU, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Master Relaciones Internacionales, Sevilla, Spain

>21-22 February 2012: Workshop EU External Representation and the Reform of International Contexts: Practices after Lisbon, Lisboan Erasmus Academic Network, Clingendael, The Hague

>16-17 February 2012: Conference Tension between Universal and Regional Unification of Private Law; Conflict between EU Law and Maritime & Transport Law Conventions, Erasmus University Rotterdam

>24-25 November 2011: Annual Ius Commune Conference, Workshop Transnational Networks – National, European and International Perspectives (Part I, Part II), Utrecht University

>13-14 October 2011: Conference The Legal Dimension of Global Governance: What Role for the EU?, University of Copenhagen

>14-15 July 2011: I UAM International Conference on European Union Law. Recent trends in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2008-2011), School of Law, Autónoma University of Madrid

>8 July 2011: Europäische Rechtsakademie, Trier, Germany

>22-23 June 2011: 4^th HiiL Law of the Future Conference, The Hague

>20-21 June 2011: Workshop The EU External Relations and the Treaty of Lisbon, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), Stockholm, Sweden

>10 June 2011: Launch of The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague

>27 May 2011: CLEER Workshop The European Union’s Shaping of the International Legal Order, University Foundation, Rue d’Egmont 11, Brussels

>12-13 May 2011: Bristol EU-International Law Forum 2011 on ‘International Responsibility’, Bristol, UK

>15-16 April 2011: Workshop Global Governance as Public Authority: Structures, Contestation, and Normative Change, the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

>30 March 2011: Guest lecture, Master Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain

>17-18 March 2011: High-level expert meeting Informal International Law-Making (INLAW), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands

>6-9 March 2011: Study trip to Aalborg University (Denmark), Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen) and Aalto University (Finland)

>earlier events

News

>Recent case law: Today in Luxembourg

>1 December 2011: New Online submissions International Organizations Law Review

>28 October 2011: Out Now International Law as Law of the European Union, edited by Enzo Cannizzaro, Paolo Palchetti and Ramses A. Wessel

>14 September 2011: Reappointed in the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law (CAVV)

>1 August 2011: Release Internationaal en Europees recht: Een verkenning van grondslagen en kenmerken, Groningen: Europa Law Publishing, 2011 (3rd ed.)

>July 2011: Call for papers The European Union in International Affairs III, Brussels, 3-5 May 2012

>June 2011: Out now Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2010 (theme: Necessity Across International Law)

>28 June 2011: CLEER Seminar The EU as a Polity in International Law, Peace Palece, The Hague

>23 March 2011: Appèl voor internationale rechtvaardigheid voor alle slachtoffers van het gewapend geweld tijdens de Gaza-oorlog (Pax Christi)

>17 March 2011: Seminar Is the EU a Human Rights Organization?, Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), The Hague

>December 2010: Nomination Best Teacher Award

>November 2010: New Book Series Nijhoff Studies in European Union Law

>January 2010: Out Now De Europese Unie na het Verdrag van Lissabon en Internationaal en Europees recht (sinds het Verdrag van Lissabon)

>29 October 2009: Studium Generale lezing Wat maakt een land tot land?

>24 June 2009: HiiL tender on New Transnational Constitutionality: Democracy and Accountability in the Context of Informal International Public Policy-Making awarded to a consortium of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Centre for European Studies (University of Twente)

>28 April 2009: Research program in which Ramses Wessel participates (Innovation of Governance) rated as ‘excellent’ and ‘at the international top’

>23 February 2009: Interview Radio Nederland Wereldomroep on Military Missions of the European Union

>25 August 2008: Interview NOS Radio 1 on South Ossetia and Abkhazia

 

Projects

>2010-2012: Informal International Law-Making (INLAW), HiiL (Geneva, Leuven, Twente)

>2010-2011: Marie Curie Initial Training Network EXACT in the field of EU External Action

>2008-now: EUPERFORM network on the performance of the EU in multilateral institutions

>2004-2008: EU Network of Excellence Connecting Excellence on European Governance (CONNEX)

Research interests

Research interests lie in the field of international and European institutional law, with a focus on international organizations, EU external relations, peace and security and European foreign, security and defence policy (CFSP and ESDP). A general focus lies on ‘multilevel regulation’, as part of the multi-disciplinary program Innovation of Governance of the IGS, which focuses mainly on the legitimacy and effectiveness of the structures and processes of multilevel governance within the European Union. Main parts of this program are connected to the EU-funded CONNEX Network of Excellence as well as to the HiiL-funded project on Informal International Law-Making (INLAW). Research activities are also embedded in the program Constitutional Processes (theme: Constitutional Processes in the International Legal Order) of the Ius Commune Research School.

Teaching

The Chair is responsible for a number of courses. Undergraduate courses include: European Legal Integration, European Legal Governance, EU External Legal Relations, Internationaal en Europees recht, International Negotiations

Graduate course: European Union Law

Ph.D supervision

As promoter

Chris Breuer, EU Regional Policy in a Multilevel Context (successfully defended April 2011)

Wibke Franz, Legitimacy of Decisions of International Organizations (in progress)

Karolien Pieters, EU External Relations and the Mediterranean (successfully defended 1 October 2009)

Claudio Matera, The European Union as an International Actor in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. A Legal Constitutional Analysis (in progress)

Maurits Sanders, Publiek-private samenwerking: Theorie en praktijk over de institutionele inbedding van besluitvorming (in progress)

Lesley Broos, Smart (Legal) Regimes for Smart Infrastructures (in progress)

Nupur Chowdhury, Legal certainty under pressure in multi-level safety and quality regulation related to medical products (in progress)

Evisa Kica, The Regulation and Standardisation of Nanotechnology (in progress)

Martin Holterman, The Transaction Costs of Semi-Public Institutions: The History of the Railways as a Challenge for Coase (in progress)

Marcel Kiers, Nederlandse provincies en de beïnvloeding van EU-beleid (in progress)

As member of the assessment committee

Dennis Gyllensporre, The EU as a Crisis Management Actor: An Examination of the Common Security Defence Policy through Lenses of Idealism and Realism (University of Maastricht, 2010)

Bart van Vooren, A Paradigm for Coherence in EU External Relations Law: The European Neighbourhood Policy (European University Institute, Florence, 2010)

Gloria Fernandez Arribas, Las capacidades de la Unión Europea como sujeto de Derecho Internacional (University Pablo de Olavide of Seville, 2008)

Frederik Naert, International Law Aspects of the EU’s Security and Defence Policy, with a particular focus on the law of armed conflict and human rights (Catholic University Leuven, 2008)

Derek Jan Fikkers, Geruisloos beleid: West-Europese regio's in hun zoektocht naar hoger opgeleiden (University of Twente, 2008)

Steven Blockmans, Tough Love: The European Union’s Relations with the Western Balkans (University of Leiden, 2007)

Stephen Sieberson, Dividing lines between the European Union and its member states: assessing the impact of the constitutional treaty (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2007)

Tobias Nowak, How Judgments Become Law and How Law Restricts Judgments: The Infuence of the European Court of Justice on the Legislative Process of the European Community (University of Groningen, 2007)

Isabel Nunes, Multilevel Role Prescriptions: Portugal, NATO and the CFSP (University of Twente, 23 August 2006)

Aleš Vlk, Higher Education and GATS: Regulatory Consequences and Stakeholders’ Responses (University of Twente, 29 June 2006)

Tanja Aalberts, Politics of Sovereignty (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 7 June 2006)

Mendeltje van Keulen, How the Dutch Government Shapes European Union Policy (University of Twente, 30 March 2006)

Delano Verwey, The European Community, the European Union and the International Law of Treaties (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 7 October 2004)