D.m. (deirdre) Curtin

Biography

Deirdre Curtin is Joint Chair of European Law and Politics at the European University Institute, Florence. She has been Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam since 2008 and held the Chair in European Law from 2008 to 2015. From 2003- 2013, she held (part-time) the Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht. She was previously Professor of the Law of International Organizations in the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht (1992 -2002). In the academic year 2014/15 she was a Regular Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study) in Berlin. Deirdre Curtin is Founding Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), a centre of excellence of the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. As research leader she co-directed ACELG's research programme on 'Compound Constitution(s) in Europe'. ACELG comprises a group of some 30 persons with internationally recognized scholars in the field of European law and European governance, including a large and growing group of Ph.D. fellows. In 2003 she was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2007 she was awarded the top-level Spinoza prize by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research in the field of European law and governance, the only time it has been awarded to a lawyer. In 2008 she was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in law by University College Dublin. In 2013 she was elected an Honorary Bencher by the King's Inn, Dublin.

Research Interest

Current research projects include data privacy, government secrecy, executive power of the EU, open government of the EU, multi-level governance and public accountability in Europe, living constitutions in Europe and the codification of European administrative law.