Joseph H. H. Weiler | |
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Born | Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler September 2, 1951 |
Title | University Professor, NYU School of Law |
Board member of | European Journal of International Law International Journal of Constitutional Law |
Children | five |
Awards | Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Ratzinger Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sussex (BA) University of Cambridge (LLB; LLM) European University Institute (PhD) |
Thesis | Supranational law and the supranational system: Legal structure and political process in the European Community (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Mauro Cappelletti |
Academic work | |
Discipline | International law, European Union law |
Institutions | European University Institute (1978–1985, 2013–2016) University of Michigan Law School (1985–1992) Harvard Law School (1992–2001) NYU School of Law (2001–2013, 2016–present) |
Notable works | The Constitution of Europe – do the New Clothes have an Emperor? (1998) The European Court of Justice (2001) Un'Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo (2003) The worlds of European constitutionalism (2011) |
Notable ideas | EU as a sui generis entity |
8th President of the European University Institute | |
In office 1 September 2013 – 31 August 2016 | |
Preceded by | Marise Cremona |
Succeeded by | Renaud Dehousse |
Website | NYU Law |
Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler OMRI (born 2 September 1951) is an American academic, currently serving as European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law and Senior Fellow of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard.
He was President of the European University Institute in Florence from 2013 until 2016.[1] He holds a diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law. Weiler is the author of works relating to the sui generis character of the European Union. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022 he was awarded the Ratzinger Prize by Pope Francis.