Professor Joseph Weiler’s Biography

J.H.H.Weiler

University Professor

Joseph Straus Professor of Law
European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor
Director, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice
Co-Director, Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization
Director, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice
Director, J.S.D. Program

Courses Taught

Law School Courses

Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium
J.S.D. Forum
The Passion of the Christ: The Trial of Jesus
International and Regional Trade Law: The Law of the WTO and NAFTA
International Law

College Course:

From Adam & Eve to the Trial of Jesus: Justice & Injustice in the Biblical Narrative

Research:

Comparative Constitutional Law
European Integration
WTO and International Economic Law

Education

Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1982
LL.M., Cambridge University, 1982
Diploma of International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law, 1978
LL.B., Cambridge University, 1977
B.A., Sussex University, 1976

NYU School of Law Appointments

Director, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, 2008
Co-Director, Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, 2008
Director, J.S.D. Program, 2008
Chair and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program, 2002-07
Joseph Straus Professor of Law, 2002
University Professor, 2002
Director, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, 2001
European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor, 2001
Visiting Professor of Law, 1998

Other Appointments:

Manley Hudson Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard Law School, 1992-2001
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, 1985-1992
Professor of Law, European University Institute, Florence, 1978-1985
Doctorates Honoris Causa, London University, Sussex University, and University of Macerata, Italy

Memberships & other Activities:

Visiting Professor at London School of Economics
Visiting Professor at University of Paris
Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po)
Visiting Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law at Heidelberg
Visiting Professor at All Souls College, Oxford
Visiting Professor at Chicago Law School
Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School
Visiting Professor at Yale Law School
Visiting Professor at the Ortega Y Gasset Institute, Madrid
Visiting Professor at University of Toronto
Visiting Professor at University of Frankfurt
Visiting Professor at University of Ljubljana
Honorary Professor at University College, London
Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China
Reporter of the American Law Institute
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament
Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law
Founding Editor of the European Law Journal
Founding Editor of the World Trade Review
Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law
Member of the Groupe des Sages
Member of the Advisory Group of the Greek Presidency of the European Union
Member of the WTO Panel
Member of the NAFTA Panel
Council Member of the Association for Hebraic Studies, AHS Institute, USA
Member of the Advisory Board of the American Journal of International Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Common Market Studies
Member of the Advisory Board of the Cahiers de Droit Européeen
Member of the Advisory Board of the Common Market Law Review
Member of the Advisory Board of the European Foreign Affairs Review
Member of the Advisory Board of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the World Trade Review
Member of the Advisory Board of the Columbia Journal of European Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard International Review
Member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Journal of International Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the (Australian) Federal Law Review
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of European Integration
Member of the Advisory Board of the European Foreign Policy Bulletin online
Member of the Advisory Board of the ELSA-Selected Papers of European Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the Irish Journal of European Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the Slovenian Law Review,
Member of the Advisory Board of the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
Member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Journal of Public Law
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International Law and Security Studies at the University of Minnesota
Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International, Comparative Law, The Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University
Member of the Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid
Member of the Advisory Council of Interdisciplinary University Center, Herzelia, Israel
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies
Council Member of the Centre for European Economic and Public Affairs, University College, Dublin
Member of the Board of Management of the European Research Paper Archive
Member of the Board of Directors of the American Journal of International Law
Member of the Board of the Centre for the Law of the European Union at University College, London
Member of the International Council of the Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
Member of the International Board of the Concord Research Center at the College of Management, Israel
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre of the University of Melbourne, Australia
Member of the International Advisory Panel of the National University of Singapore
Member of the International Advisory Board, Queen’s University, Belfast
Member of the International Advisory Board, the Ortega Y Gasset Institute, Madrid

Publications:

Books:

Un’Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo, (BUR Saggi, Milano, 2003)
Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) (ed. with I. Begg and J. Peterson)
European Constitutionalism Beyond the State (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (with M. Wind)
The European Court of Justice (Academy of European Law, EUI / Oxford University Press, 2001) (ed. with G. de Búrca)
L'Italia in Europa - Profili istituzionali e costituzionali (2000) (with M. Cartabia)
The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (Oxford University Press, 2000)
What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity?: Responses to Joschka Fischer (Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, 2000) (ed. with C. Joerges and Y. Mény)
The Constitution of the Common Market Place: The Free Movement of Goods (1999)
Kompetenzen Und Grundrechte--Beschränkungen Der Tabakwerbung Aus Der Sicht Des Europarechts (1999)
The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
The European Court and National Courts: Doctrine and Jurisprudence (ed. 1998)
Der Fall Steinmann (1998 and Supp. 2000) (with trans. Michael Cochu)

Chapters

"European Communities – Trade Description of Sardines: Textualism and its Discontent," in The WTO Case Law of 2002 (Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005)
"Les droits fondamentaux et les limites fondamentales: normes communes et valeurs antagoniques dans la protection des droits de l’homme," in Quelle identité pour l’Europe? Le multiculturisme à l’épreuve (R. Kastoryano, ed., Les Presses Sciences Po, 2005)
"Human Rights, Constitutionalism and Integration: Iconography and Fetishism," in Developing a Constitution for Europe (E.O. Eriksen , J.E. Fossum and A.J. Menéndez , eds., Routledge, 2004)
"Europe’s Dark Legacy: Reclaiming Nationalism and Patriotism," in Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and Its Legal Traditions (N. Singh Ghaleigh and C. Joerges, ed., Hart Publishing, 2003)
"In Defence of the Status Quo: Europe’s Constitutional Sonderweg," in European Constitutionalism Beyond the State (J.H.H. Weiler and M. Wind, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"EC – Asbestos. European Communities – Measures Affecting Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products," in The WTO Case Law of 2001 (H. Horn and P. Mavroidis, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"Diritti Umani, Costituzionalismo e Integrazione: Iconografia e Feticismo," in Diritti e Confini: Dalle Costituzioni Nazionali alla Carta di Nizza (M. Comba, ed., Edizioni di Comunità, 2002)
"A Constitution for Europe?: Some Hard Choices," in Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals (J.H.H. Weiler et al., ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2002)
"The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement," in Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (R. Porter et al. , ed., Brookings Institution Press, 2001)
"Cain and Abel: Convergence and Divergence in International Trade Law," in The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (J.H.H. Weiler, ed., Oxford University Press, 2000)
"Why Should Europe Be a Democracy: The Corruption of Political Culture and the Principle of Constitutional Tolerance," in The Europeanisation of Law: The Legal Effects of European Integration (F. Snyder, ed., Hart Publishing, 2000)
"Sons and Haters...!," in Liber Amicorum in Honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley, Judicial Review in European Union Law (Antonio Bavasso and David O'Keefe, ed., Kluwer Law International, 2000)
"Derechos Humanos, Constitucionalismo e Integración: Iconografía y Fetichismo," 3 Puente@Europa 34 (2005)
"On the Power of the Word: Europe’s Constitutional Iconography," 3 International Journal of Constitutional Law 173 (2005)
"Quella Parola che “Gratta”…," 24 Quaderni costituzionali 791 (2004)
"The Geology of International Law – Governance, Democracy and Legitimacy," 64 ZaöRV 547 (2004)
"Back to the Future: Europe as Community," 28 Collegium 43 (2003)
"Constitución europea y tradición cristiana," 271 Revista de Occidente 87 (2003) (with F. Rubio Llorente)
"Reassessing the Fundamentals: Integration in an Expanding EU," 40 Journal of Common Market Studies 555 (2002)
"Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, and Autonomous – All at the Same Time? (An Epistolary Exchange)," 34 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 729 (2002) (with R. Stith)
"The Promised Constitutional Land," 12 King’s College Law Journal 5 (2001)
"On Superficiality and Legal Education," 25 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 421 (2001) (with Y. Friedman)

Short Articles:

"The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 9/00 (2001)
"Federalism and Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg," Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 10/00 (2001)
An 'Ever Closer Union' in Need of a Human Rights Policy: The European Union and Human Rights." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No 1/99, Cambridge, MA
"Mancini v. Weiler: Europe-The Case for Statehood … And the Case Against: An Exchange." Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 6/98, Cambridge, MA