Mark Dawson
Professor
Law
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Mark Dawson is Professor of European Law and Governance at the Hertie School of Governance. Dawson was previously an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, where he remains a scholar within the Maastricht Centre for European Law. He has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Kennedy School. Dawson holds degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen as well as a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the Principle Investigator of LEVIATHAN, a research project exploring the legal and political accountability structure of EU economic governance. LEVIATHAN is supported by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council.
Research Interest
His research focuses on the relationship between law and policymaking in the EU, particularly economic governance and human rights protection.
Publications
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Spec ialized courses on EU governance and law to a number of other organizations including GIZ and the Bosch Stiftung Other Positions (present and past)
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Specialized course on ‘Soft Law and New Modes of Governance at the Academy of European Law of the EUI
