Notes on Contributors
Andrej Auersperger Matić
is a member of the Legal Service of the European Parliament, with over fifteen years’ experience as a lawyer working in and with European institutions. He specialises in European, human rights and trade law and holds degrees from the University of Ljubljana, Yale Law School and Maastricht University.
Fabian Blandfort
is a research assistant at the Chair for public law, European law and public international law of Professor Marc Bungenberg at Saarland University. He completed his law degree at Saarland University (First State Exam) at the top of his class, specialising in European Union and public international law as well as human rights protection law. His main fields of research are international investment law and European Union law.
Jacques Bourgeois
is senior legal adviser at Sidley Austin, guest professor at Ghent University (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) and professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). Prior to entering private practice, Jacques served for over 25 years as a senior official with the European Commission, joining its Legal Service in 1965. From 1987 to 1991, he was the principal legal adviser of the Commission in charge of foreign trade policy and, later, antitrust policy. Previously, he served for several years as head of the Trade Policy Instruments Division in the Directorate-General for External Relations, and was responsible for the implementation of the EU’s regulations on anti-dumping and subsidies, as well as for safeguard measures and protection against illicit commercial practices.
Colin M. Brown
is an international trade and investment lawyer and since 2013 Deputy Head of Unit of Unit F.2 – Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. He leads the team of lawyers working on investor-state dispute settlement in the trade and investment policy of the European Union. He is the lead EU delegate to uncitral Working group iii on isds reform. He also leads the teams providing legal advice on EU ftas, including the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (epa), the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (ceta) with Canada and the Transatlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement (ttip). Before joining dg Trade in October 2006 he worked for 6 years for the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he litigated wto and EU law cases. He has been chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty between 2004 and 2017. He is guest lecturer in EU External Economic Relations Law at the Law School of the University of Edinburgh and has taught EU and wto law at ielpo, University of Barcelona and the Université catholique de Louvain.
Marc Bungenberg
is Director of the Europa-Institut and a professor of public law, European law and public international law at Saarland University in Germany, visiting professor at the University of Lausanne/Switzerland. Marc received his doctorate in law from the University of Hannover and wrote his habilitation treatise at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He holds an LL.M. from Lausanne University. His main fields of research are European (Common Commercial Policy, public procurement and state aid law) and international economic law, particularly international investment and wto law.
Merijn Chamon
is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Maastricht University. Previously he was a postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (fwo) at the Ghent European Law Institute (Ghent University) where he also obtained his PhD. Merijn has a broad interest in EU law with a specific focus on EU constitutional law, EU institutional law and the law of EU external relations.
Barbara Cooreman
leads the sustainability and trade policy practices at Hanover Brussels, advising organizations across a variety of business sectors on the political and regulatory environments in order to develop and implement advocacy and reputation strategies and campaigns targeting both EU policymakers and stakeholder audiences. Before joining Hanover, Barbara worked at the Aerospace & Defence Industries Association of Europe (asd) on EU and international environmental and energy policy. She started her career in academia as a researcher and lecturer in EU and wto law. She holds a PhD in international trade law and EU environmental law.
Marise Cremona
is Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute, Florence. She was Professor of European Law and a co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute (2006 – 2017). She was Head of the Department of Law at the eui (2009–2012) and President ad interim of the eui (2012–2013). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Common Market Law Review. Her research interests are in the external relations law of the European Union, in particular the constitutional basis for EU external relations law and the legal and institutional dimensions of EU foreign policy.
Philippe De Baere
is managing partner of Van Bael & Bellis’ Brussels office. His practice focuses on EU and international trade law. He has been involved in most major EU trade defence proceedings since 1990 and has represented numerous clients before the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the wto Appellate Body. He frequently advises sovereign clients during their fta negotiations with the EU or on Brexit-related matters. Philippe regularly lectures on EU Trade Law at the University Carlos iii in Madrid and the Catholic University of Leuven (kul).
Juhi Dion Sud
is a partner at vvgb Advocaten. Her practice focuses on EU and international trade law and wto law. Ms. Sud obtained her LL.M. from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (summa cum laude) and LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, Delhi University. She holds a B.A. in History from St. Stephens College, Delhi. She has authored many articles.
Bart Driessen
reads law in Nijmegen and Budapest and received a Ph.D. in EU law from the University of Leuven (2006). Between 1994 and 2000 he worked as a trade lawyer in private practice, with a one-year interlude in dg trade. For the last two decades Dr Driessen has been a member of the Legal Service of the Council of the EU, dealing with institutional matters and external relations. Since 2016 Dr Driessen is the legal adviser to the Trade Policy Committee. He has been an agent for the Council in well over 200 cases before the Union courts, including in Opinion 2/15 (Singapore fta) and the Opinion 1/17 (ics).
Sophie Gappa
Sophie Gappa has been serving as a civil servant since 2014 in different functions in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. She has been working in the Ministry’s division for trade policy for several years and – in this function – has been a member of the Trade Policy Committee (Deputies). She holds a PhD degree from the University of Münster.
Attila Gerhäuser
is Director at the German Tax Adviser Association in Berlin. Previously he worked in Brussels as Head of EU Office of the German Chemical Industry Association and as Policy Adviser in the Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament. Attila obtained his LL.M. from the Europa-Institut (University Saarland) with a special focus on EU trade law and internal market law.
Sieglinde Gstöhl
is Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, where she has been Professor since 2005. From 1999–2005 she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at Humboldt University Berlin. She holds a PhD and an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva as well as a degree in Public Affairs from the University of St. Gallen. Her recent books include The Proliferation of Privileged Partnerships between the European Union and its Neighbours (ed. with D. Phinnemore, Routledge, 2019); The European Union’s Evolving External Engagement: Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies? (ed. with S. Schunz and C. Damro, Routledge, 2018); The Trade Policy of the European Union (with D. De Bièvre, Palgrave, 2018); and Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ed. with S. Schunz, Routledge, 2017).
Michael Hahn
is Professor of Law at the University of Bern, Managing Director of its Institute of European and International Economic Law and a Director at its World Trade Institute; he is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato School of Law. He holds degrees from the University of Heidelberg and the University of Michigan Law School. Michael is on the list of arbitrators for ceta, cptpp and the sadc-eu Economic Partnership Agreement and teaches, researches and consults on international trade law, Swiss-EU bilateral relations and EU external relations law.
Joni Heliskoski
is Acting Justice at the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland. From 2010 to 2019 he was Director of EU Litigation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Agent of the Government of Finland before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has also worked as an expert on EU law at the Ministry of Justice, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Permanent Representation of Finland to the European Union. Dr Heliskoski is also Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helisinki. He has published extensively on external relations law of the EU.
Frank Hoffmeister
studied law in Frankfurt, Geneva and Heidelberg (1989–1994) and received a PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law (1998). Between 1998 and 2001 he researched and taught as University Assistant at the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. He then entered the European Commission, first as Cyprus desk at DG Enlargement and afterwards as a member of the Legal Service, where he specialised on international law and wto issues. From 2010–2014, he served as the Deputy Head of Cabinet of EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht, and as of 2015 he is Head of Unit dealing with anti-dumping at dg Trade. Besides, Frank teaches international economic law at the Free University University of Brussels and has published numerous articles on European and international law topics. He also co-authored ‘The Law of EU External Relations – Cases, Materials and Commentary on the EU as an International Legal Actor’ (oup 3rd edition 2020) together with J Wouters, G de Baere and T Ramopoulos.
David Kleimann
is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC and a member of the Executive Council of the Society for International Economic Law (siel). His research focuses on international trade law, EU external economic relations law, and trade policy. David has earned his PhD in European, International, and Comparative Laws at the European University Institute (eui) in Florence, Italy, where he defended his thesis on ‘The Transformation of EU External Economic Governance’. He holds a 1st of class Masters degree in International Law and Economics (mile) from the World Trade Institute (wti) in Berne, Switzerland, and an LL.M in International Law (with distinction) from Kent Law School in Brussels, Belgium. David has served as a policy advisor to the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee for International Trade (inta), Bernd Lange. He has taught wto law at the law department of the University of Mannheim, Germany. He also acted as a consultant to the World Bank’s International Trade Department and the EU – China Trade Project in 2014. In 2009/10 he coordinated the trade policy project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (gmfus) in Brussels.
Sam Koplewicz
is the Deputy Voter Protection Director for the Florida Democratic Party. He received a ba in Public Policy from Brown University and jd from Harvard Law School. Before law school, Koplewicz studied Croatia’s change in money laundering law enforcement while the country was joining the EU as a Fulbright Scholar. Following law school, Koplewicz worked for Human Rights Watch in Beirut, Lebanon as Harvard Law Human Rights Satter Fellow. He returned to Croatia as a visiting professor at Zagreb University’s faculty of law. Koplewicz also spent time in Amman, Jordan as the Policy and Advocacy Adviser for Oxfam’s Syria Crisis Response. He has conducted research and taught on EU migration and foreign policy.
Pieter Jan Kuijper
is Professor emeritus of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. Prior to his appointment at the UvA, he was principal Legal Advisor and Director of the ‘External Relations and International Trade’ team of the Legal Service of the European Commission (2002–2007) and Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (1999–2002). Most recently he is one of the editors of and author of four chapters in The Law of the European Union, Kluwer Law International, Alphen a/d Rijn 2018.
Martin Lutz
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, joined the Trade Policy Unit in 2011. He was the German representative in the Trade Policy Committee (Deputies) from 2011 to 2016. Since 2016 Co-Head of the Trade Policy Unit.
Bregt Natens
is an associate in Sidley’s international trade group. He advises clients on EU and international trade issues, including in EU and wto litigation and on trade remedies, customs rules, and market access and regulatory barriers. Prior to joining Sidley, Bregt gained experience in the Legal Affairs Division of the wto, assisting a Panel in dispute settlement proceedings. He also was a researcher at the University of Leuven (Belgium), where his research and teaching activities focused on EU and wto law, with a particular emphasis on trade in services. Bregt is a regular lecturer and speaker at international conferences. His research has been published in leading journals, and he published a monograph on international and EU trade in services with Edward Elgar.
Tamara Perišin
is Judge at the General Court of the European Union. Prior to this, she was Jean Monnet Professor of EU and wto law at the University of Zagreb, and John Harvey Gregory Visiting Professor of Law and World Organization at Harvard Law School. Perišin graduated cum laude at Zagreb. As a Chevening scholar, she earned the degree of Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall and completed her PhD at the University of Zagreb, defending her thesis before an international committee. As part of her doctoral and postdoctoral research, Tamara Perišin studied: as a visiting researcher at the Asser College Europe, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague; as a Fulbright scholar, at the Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, mi; as a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellow at the Central European University, Budapest; as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; and as a postdoctoral visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Perišin was a member of the negotiating team for the accession of Croatia to the European Union. She has passed the Croatian bar exam and has been responsible for providing training on EU law to judges, practising lawyers, civil servants and diplomats. She served as Special Adviser to the Ministry of Science and Education and was editor-in-chief of a journal on EU law. She has authored and edited several books and numerous articles.
Reinhard Quick
is honorary professor for international economic law at Saarland University, Saarbrücken. Before his retirement he worked for more than thirty years as lobbyist for the European and German Chemical Industry Associations. Reinhard studied law at the Universities of Mannheim and Michigan.
Allan Rosas
Dr.Jur., Dr.Jur. h.c., Dr.Pol.Sc. h.c.; Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, University of Ghent (spring 2020) and the University of Helsinki; member of the Independent Ethical Committee of the European Commission. Former Judge at the European Court of Justice (January 2002–October 2019); Principal Legal Adviser and subsequently Deputy Director-General of the Legal Service of the European Commission (1995–2002); former Armfelt Professor of Law at the Åbo Akademi University (1981 – 1995) and Professor of Public Law at the University of Turku (1977–81). Before 1995 he was member of several Finnish governmental law commissions and advisory bodies; he represented the Finnish Government at a number of international conferences and expert meetings and had expert functions at the UN and unesco in particular. He has published extensively in areas such as EU law, international law and constitutional and administrative law; his most recent book: A Rosas and L Armati, EU Constitutional Law: An Introduction, 3rd rev edn (Hart Publishing 2018).
Pierre Sauvé
is a Senior Trade Specialist in the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group and an adjunct faculty member of the University of Bern’s World Trade Institute. Previously, he served as Director of Studies and Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships at the World Trade Institute. His research focuses on trade in services, the regulation of investment and the political economy of the multilateral trading system.
Marta Soprana
is Founder of TradePol Consulting. She is a trade policy advisor specialised in research and technical assistance on international trade policy issues. She has worked as a consultant for a number of international organizations – including fao, itc, unctad, unescap, World Bank and wto – and national governments. She is currently pursuing a PhD in international law and economics at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on trade in service, artificial intelligence, digital trade, data governance, and international economic law. She also holds a Master in International law and Economics (mile) from Bern’s World Trade Institute (wti), a Master in internationalization of smes from the Italian Trade Agency, and a MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna.
Geert Van Calster
is full professor at KU Leuven, visiting professor at King’s College, London; Monash University, Melbourne; and the China-EU School of Law in Beijing. He is also adjunct professor at American University, Washington and a practising member of the Belgian Bar.
Isabelle Van Damme
is Counsel at Van Bael & Bellis and a Member of the Brussels Bar. Her practice focuses on wto law, EU law, and public international law. Isabelle regularly advises governments and represents States and individuals before international courts and tribunals, including the wto dispute settlement bodies and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Earlier in her career, Isabelle was a référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Sharpston, at the Court of Justice of the European Union, worked at a Geneva-based firm specialised in wto law and taught at the University of Cambridge, Clare College. She holds degrees from the University of Ghent (Bachelor of Law, Master of Laws), Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D. in Law).
Guillaume Van der Loo
is a research fellow at the European Policy Centre (Brussels) and Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations and is Visiting Professor EU Trade Law at Ghent University. He obtained a PhD in Law (2014, Ghent University) on the EU’s new generation of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas concluded with the EU’s neighbouring countries. He was also a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (ceps) and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. His research and publications focus on the law and policy of the EU’s external relations and Common Commercial Policy, with a particular focus on the new generation of eu ftas, EU international agreements, EU external competences and EU neighbourhood relations. Guillaume has contributed to several international research projects funded by different EU institutions and member states. He also consults on EU trade and external relations law.
Peter Van Elsuwege
is professor of EU law and Jean Monnet Chair holder at Ghent University, where he is co-director of the Ghent European Law Institute (geli). He is also visiting professor at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus) and board member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (cleer) at the Asser Institute in The Hague. His research activities essentially focus on the law of EU external relations and EU citizenship. Specific attention is devoted to the legal framework of the relations between the European Union and its East European neighbours. He published extensively in leading law journals such as Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, European Constitutional Law Review and others.
Edwin Vermulst
has practised international trade and EU law and policy since 1985 and is a founding partner of vvgb Advocaten. He is a member of the Brussels bar. Mr. Vermulst specialises in the representation of multinationals, governments, trade associations, exporters and importers in wto, trade remedy and customs cases, and he is, among others, the trade counsel of the World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (wfsgi). He has co-authored nine books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems and rules of origin of countries such as Australia, Canada, the EU and the United States and numerous articles. Mr. Vermulst is the Editor- in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and a Faculty member of the World Trade Institute in Bern.
Geraldo Vidigal
is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates the LL.M. in International Trade and Investment Law, and Managing Editor of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer). He has worked as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the World Trade Organization (Legal Affairs Division) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution of the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School and a Bachelor’s in Law from the University of São Paulo.
Stephen Woolcock
is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics where he teaches international political economy of trade and economic diplomacy. His main areas of research have been European Union trade policy and preferential trade and investment agreements as well as questions concerning the international trading system and trade frictions.
Claus D. Zimmermann
is a senior associate with Sidley Austin llp in Brussels. He advises governments and private stakeholders on international and EU trade and investment matters, with a particular emphasis on litigation under the auspices of the wto, the EU courts and at the member state level. Before entering private practice in 2011, Claus worked for, inter alia, the wto Appellate Body Secretariat and the imf Legal Department. Claus holds a DPhil in public international law from the University of Oxford and a PhD in economics from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Claus is a regular speaker at international conferences. His research on international economic law has been published in leading journals and his monograph “A Contemporary Concept of Monetary Sovereignty” was published by Oxford University Press.