Ramses A. Wessel

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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, University Dean of Educational Innovation and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies. The Chair is part of the Law & Regulation group of de Department of Public Administration. Additional functions include:

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

Editor of Nijhoff Studies in European Union Law; Member of the Advisory Board of The European Union in International Affairs book series

Member of the editorial boards of 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 member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG) and the Research School Ius Commune;

Fellow of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of the Law (HiiL); Fellow of the Centre for Conflict and Security Law; and Member of the Governing Board and co-founder 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

Research – Innovating the Governance of Multilevel Regulation

Research expertise lies in the field of international and European institutional law, with a focus on international organizations, EU external relations, European and global foreign, security and defence policy, and the vertical relations between legal orders (global-EU-domestic). These themes are approached from the perspective of new developments and innovations in EU and global governance and multilevel regulation as part of the multi-disciplinary research program Innovation of Governance, which focuses mainly on changes in the relationships between citizens and their government at various levels, with specific attention for the emergence of multilevel governance, from the viewpoints of legitimacy and effectiveness. Research activities are also embedded in the program Constitutional Processes (theme: Constitutional Processes in the International Legal Order) of the Ius Commune Research School.

My whereabouts

>27-28 November 2013: Conference on EU External Action, Universidad de Granada, Spain

>27-28 November 2013: Annual Conference Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), University of Twente

>27-28 June 2013: Academy of European Law, Trier, Germany

>25-26 June 2013: Master of Public Management University of Twente, study trip Copenhagen, Denmark

>24 June 2013: Lecturing at the 1^st CLEER Summer School on The Law of EU External Relations, Brussels

>9-10 June 2013: The Immunity of International Organizations, International Conference, University of Leiden

>23-25 May 2013: European Society of International Law – Research Forum International Law as a Profession, Amsterdam

>21-22 March 2013: Workshop EEAS 2.0, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

>14-16 March 2013: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain

>22 February 2013: CLEER-ICCT Conference: The External Dimension of EU Counter-terrorism Policy, Brussels

>5 December 2012: Guest lecture European Security Law, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University

>23 November 2012: Conference The European External Action Service: Changing the Nature of Diplomacy or Old Wine in New Bottles?, conference at Europe House organised by the London School of Economics, and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust, London

>16 November 2012: Closed Workshop EU External Relations Law, University of Copenhagen

>9 November 2012: CLEER Workshop Linking trade and non-commercial interests: the EU as a global role model?, Centre for the Law of EU External Relations, The Hague

>25-26 October 2012: Cambridge-Durham European Law Workshop on External Relations Law of the European Union , Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge

>4 October 2012: Workshop European External Action Service, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (Sieps), Stockholm, Sweden

>21 September 2012: Workshop Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy, Organised within the framework of the project The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking at the University of Amsterdam

>13-15 September 2012: Conference Regionalism and International Law, 5^th Bi-annual conference European Society of International Law, Valencia, Spain

>3-5 September 2012: UACES Conference Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2012: Old Borders – New Frontiers, Passau, Germany [paper]

>earlier events

News

>Recent case law: Today in Luxembourg

24-28 June 2013: 1^st CLEER Summer School on The Law of EU External Relations, Brussels

>8 February 2013: EEAS Commentary published. S. Blockmans, M. Cremona, D. Curtin, G. De Baere, S. Duke, C. Eckes, C. Hillion, B. Van Vooren, R. Wessel, and J. Wouters, EEAS 2.0: A Legal Commentary on Council Decision 2010/427/EU Establishing the Organisation and Functioning of the European External Action Service, edited by S. Blockmans and C. Hillion, Brussels: CEPS / Stockholm: Sieps, 2013

>11 January 2013: OUT NOW: The 2^nd Informal International Lawmaking book is full-text available - A. Berman, S. Duquet J. Pauwelyn, R.A. Wessel, and J. Wouters, (Eds.), Informal International Lawmaking: Case Studies, The Hague: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2012

> 4 January 2013: OUT NOW: R.A. Wessel and S. Blockmans (Eds.), Between Autonomy and Dependence: The EU Legal Order Under the Influence of International Organisations, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, 2013

> 21 December 2012: OUT NOW: Aurel Sari and Ramses A. Wessel (Eds.), Human Rights in EU Crisis Management Operations, CLEER Working Papers

>9 November 2012: Workshop Linking Trade and Non-Commercial Interests: The EU as a Global Role Model?, Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), The Hague

>October 2012: Launch of the EEAS 2.0 project – Redrafting the 2010 Council Decision on the organisation and functioning of the European Action Service

>29 September 2012: OUT NOW: Informal International Lawmaking, edited by J. Pauwelyn, R.A. Wessel and J. Wouters – Oxford University Press

>9 September 2012: OUT NOW: Principles and Practices of EU External Representation, CLEER Working Paper series

>old news

Key Projects

>2012-2014: EEAS 2.0 project – Redrafting the 2010 Decision on the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service

>2011-now: NanoNextNL, project 01C.04 Governance and regulation

>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)

Teaching

The Chair is responsible for a number of courses in the European Public Administration and European Studies programs. Undergraduate courses include: European Legal Integration, European Legal Governance, EU External Legal Relations, and Introduction to Law

Graduate course: European Union Law

Post-graduate: Masterclass Europa in de Publieke Sector

Ph.D supervision

As promoter

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

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

Martin Holterman, The Transaction Costs of Semi-Public Institutions: The History of the Railways as a Challenge for Coase (successfully defended September 2011)

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)

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

As member of the assessment committee

Muhire G. Yves, The African Union’s Right of Intervention and the UN System of Collective Security (Utrecht University, 2013)

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)