Participants of 3rd Sir David Williams European legal Dialogues
President
Sir Patrick Elias
The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Elias was born in Cardiff in 1947. Before becoming a Bencher in 1995, he was a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and served as Assistant Recorder from 1997 to 1999.
He was appointed Deputy High Court Judge in January 1999 and four months later, in May 1999, he was named Judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division. He was President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 2006 to 2009.
Discussants
Paul Craig
Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.
Scholarship & Academia
Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.
Luis Maria Diez Picazo
Born in Madrid, on 21 February 1958.
Present position:
President of the Administrative Law Division, Supreme Court of Spain, since September 2015.
Part-time Professor of Constitutional Law at Colegio Universitario de Estudios Finacieros (Cunef).
Education and previous professional experience:
Law degree at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with distinction.
Scholarship at the Real Colegio de España, for postgraduate studies. Doctorate at Università di Bologna, with a thesis on "Il problema dell'amministrazione degli organi costituzionali" (supervisor: Prof. Fabio Roversi Monaco).
Legal advisor at the Spanish Ministry of Justice, position obtained through competitive examination in 1983.
Full Professor of Constitutional Law since 1990, originally at Universidad de Málaga.
Professor of Comparative Public Law at the European University Institute (Florence) between 1989 and 1997. Head of its Law Department for two years.
Professor of Constitutional Law at the National School for the Judiciary (Barcelona) between 1997 and 1999.
Professor of Constitutional Law at Universidad de Málaga between 1999 and 2001.
Practising lawyer in Madrid between 2002 and 2008 and part-time Professor of Constitutional Law at the Uniersidad de Castilla-La Mancha between 2005 and 2008.
Judge at the Spanish Supreme Court (Administrative Law Division), appointed in 2008.
Linguistic skills:
Fluent in English, French and Italian. Basic knowledge of German.
Books:
La autonomía administrativa de las Cámaras parlamentarias (1985)
La derogación de las leyes (1990)
Régimen constitucional del Poder Judicial (1991)
La criminalidad de los gobernantes (1996; 2nd ed., 2000)
Sobre secretos oficiales (1998)
El poder de acusar: Ministerio Fiscal y constitucionalismo (2000)
Constitucionalismo de la Unión Europea (2002).
Sistema de derechos fundamentales (2003; 4th ed., 2013)
La naturaleza de Unión Europea (2009).
Visiting Professor:
Indiana University
Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica
Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
Université de Bordeaux IV (Montesquieu)
Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.
Membership to groups of experts:
"Stratégies et options pour renforcer le caractère constitutionnel des traités" (President: Giuliano Amato) and "Un traité fondamental pour l'Union Européen (Etude sur la réorganisation des Traités)" (Presidents: Claus Dieter Ehlermann e Yves Mény), both for the European Commission.
“Groupe de juristes pour l’étude de la Convention sur la Constitution européenne” (President: Anne Levade), appointed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Futuro de la Unión Europea” (President: Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesisas), at Real Instituto Elcano.
Working group established to draft the “Ordenanza de Convivencia” at the Municipality of Barcelona.
President of the “Comisión Institucional para la elaboración de una propuesta de texto articulado de Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial”, appointed by the Spanish Government.
Decorations:
Gran Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort.
Mario Chiti
Rui Lanceiro
Fields of interest / research:
Administrative Law
Environmental Law
Constitutional Law
Public International Law
European Union Law
Academic Degrees:
Bachelor of Law, University of Lisbon School of Law, in 2005;
«Intensive International Master of Laws (I.I. LL.M.) in European Public Law», European Academy of Public Law, 2005
Completion of the curricular phase of the Master’s in 2007;
Ph.D., University of Lisbon School of Law, in 2016.
Member of the following groups:
Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional
European Group of Public Law
Member of the following research centres:
Centre for Research in Public Law of the University of Lisbon School of Law.
Member of the following international research projects:
Direito Administrativo Global: da Realidade à Reconstrução Teórica (Centre for Research in Public Law);
Direito Público e investimento no espaço marítimo (Centre for Research in Public Law).
Teaching or research duties in other institutions of higher education:
Law of International Relations (lecturer; course as part of the Bachelor’s programme in European Studies of the University of Lisbon School of Humanities, taught under the Protocol between this institution and the School of Law), academic year 2006/2007.
Law and Environmental Sociology (as co-lecturer; a course of the Integrated Master’s in Environmental Engineering of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon taught under the Protocol between this institution and the School of Law), academic years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.
Ymre Schuurmans
Prof. Ymre Schuurmans has been part of Leiden’s faculty since 2005, having previously worked as a PhD-candidate and lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She graduated summa cum laude from the same university in both constitutional & administrative law and civil law in 2000. She received the VAR-award from the Dutch Association for Administrative Law for her dissertation on the burden of proof in administrative procedure in 2009. This prize is awarded once every four years and rewards a person who has made an innovative and valuable contribution to the development of general administrative law. In 2008 Dutch Magazine MR. named Ymre best administrative lawyer under 35.
Ymre holds and has held several positions next to her activities as a professor. She, inter alia, acts as a substitute judge at the Rotterdam District Court, is the editor-in-chief of open access journal NALL : Netherlands administrative law library and works as editor for JB-plus.
Ymre Schuurmans is co-founder of the E.A.P. (European Association of Public-Private Partnership), the Dutch Women’s Administrative Lawyers Association and member of the European Group of Public Administration. In 2008 she visited Cardozo School of Law in New York as a research scholar.
Alison Young
Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Robinson College. I currently co-edit the UKCLA blog on constitutional law, and am a member of the Editorial Board of European Public Law. I'm also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I'm affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub and with the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, both at the University of Oxford. I am also an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Before joining the University of Cambridge I studied for a Law (with French) degree at the University of Birmingham, spending a year at the Université de Limoges as part of my degree. I then completed the BCL and D Phil at Hertford College, University of Oxford. I spent three years as a Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to Hertford as a Fellow in Law and later Professor of Public Law at the University of Oxford. At Oxford I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and received awards for Teaching Excellence and Innovation from the University of Oxford.
Ymre Schuurmans
Leiden University
Prof. Ymre Schuurmans has been part of Leiden’s faculty since 2005, having previously worked as a PhD-candidate and lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She graduated summa cum laude from the same university in both constitutional & administrative law and civil law in 2000. She received the VAR-award from the Dutch Association for Administrative Law for her dissertation on the burden of proof in administrative procedure in 2009. This prize is awarded once every four years and rewards a person who has made an innovative and valuable contribution to the development of general administrative law. In 2008 Dutch Magazine MR. named Ymre best administrative lawyer under 35.
Ymre holds and has held several positions next to her activities as a professor. She, inter alia, acts as a substitute judge at the Rotterdam District Court, is the editor-in-chief of open access journal NALL : Netherlands administrative law library and works as editor for JB-plus.
Ymre Schuurmans is co-founder of the E.A.P. (European Association of Public-Private Partnership), the Dutch Women’s Administrative Lawyers Association and member of the European Group of Public Administration. In 2008 she visited Cardozo School of Law in New York as a research scholar.
Directors
David Feldman
David Feldman is the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He previously taught in the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham and at the Australian National University, was the first Legal Adviser to the UK's parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights (2001-04), and a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002-10). His teaching and research are mainly in the field of public law. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Queen's Counsel honoris causa.
Spyridon Flogaitis
Spyridon Flogaitis is the Director of the EPLO and President of its Board of Directors 6.
He is Professor of Administrative Law at the Law School of the University of Athens, Attorney at Law at the High Court and the Council of State of Greece, former President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal and former Caretaker Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs (2015) and Caretaker Minister of Interior, Greece (in 2007 and 2009). He is also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College in the University of Cambridge and a Doctor Honoris Causa at the NSPSPA in Bucharest, Romania and the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
He was born in Lefkas (Greece) and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Athens with a degree in Law. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a PhD in History from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
He speaks fluently English, French, German, Italian and Greek and he is the author of many publications in the area of public law.
He was awarded with the distinction of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur of the French Republic and the distinction of Cavaliere dell’Ordine di Merito of the Italian Republic.
Scientific Secretariat
Georgios Gerapetritis
George Gerapetritis is a lawyer and Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens. He is a graduate of the Athens University Law School and holds an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh in the fields of public law and philosophy of law and a doctorate in European public law from the University of Oxford. He has been a fellow of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ), the British Council, the French Council of State and the U.S. German Marshall Fund.
He has conducted and participated in more than 50 research programs of national, European and international character, has addressed more than 100 seminars and conferences in Greece, Europe and America and has published 5 books and more than 100 articles and contributions in Greek and international journals in three languages. He has been legal counsel to the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization and the Ministry of Education and Religion.
He is practicing law before the Hellenic Council of State, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
