Laurence W. Gormley
Visiting professor, European Legal Studies Department
Prof. Dr Laurence W. Gormley was appointed to the Chair of European Law in the Law Faculty at the University of Groningen in September 1990. He also holds a Jean Monnet Chair awarded to the Faculty in 1995 and leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Groningen, recognised by the European Commission in 1999.
He graduated from the University of Oxford in Modern History and Modern Languages in 1975 (M.A., 1979); took a M.Sc. in European Studies at the London School of Economics in 1976, and he was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1978. In 1978 he received the Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Award from the Middle Temple, and held a Rotary Foundation Fellowship at the Europa Institute at Utrecht. He took his doctorate in 1985 at Utrecht, with a dissertation on ‘Prohibiting Restrictions on Trade within the EEC’. After completing pupillage in 1979, and then being a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, he worked as an official of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels from 1983 to 1990 (dealing with competition; free movement of goods, and public procurement).
Professor Gormley’s principal publications are in the field of European Community Law, with the main emphasis being in the areas of the free movement of goods; customs law; public procurement; taxation, and the internal market, although he has also published a number of articles on the judicial architecture of the EU and judicial review. He edited and revised the 2nd. (1989) and 3rd. (1998) editions of Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat's Introduction to the Law of the European Communities and wrote the contributions on Customs Union and the Free Movement of Goods and on Taxation in Vol. 52 of Halsbury’s Laws of England 4th. ed. (1986). Recent articles which he has published include Judicial Review: Advice for the Deaf? (2006) 29 Fordh. Int’l LJ 665—689 and Silver Threads Among the Gold …50 Years of the Free Movement of Goods (2008) 31 Fordh. Int’l LJ 1637—1691. His EU Taxation Law (2005) is published by Oxford University Press, as is his forthcoming book on EU Customs Law and the Free Movement of Goods (2009).
He is on the Editorial Board of the European Law Review, the European Business Law Review, the Irish Journal of European Law and the Journal de Droit Européen and the Public Procurement Law Review, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Liverpool Law Review.
Professor Gormley has twice been a co-holder of the Generale Bank (now Fortis Bank) Chair at Leuven, and was a Professor at the College of Europe, 1993—1999 (Bruges, then Natolin) and has again been so at Bruges since 2004; Over the years he has been: Visiting Professor of EC Law at University College, London, at the University of Bremen, and at the University of Leuven; Stiftungsprofessor für Europarecht at the University of Bonn; Visiting Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge;Commerzbank Visiting Professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, and Visiting Fellow at the CIEL at the University of Sheffield. He has on various occasions given guest lectures at myriad universities in Europe and in the United States.
He Chaired the Assessment Committee for Advanced Master’s courses in Law at the Flemish Universities 2006—2007. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of European Law at the University of Birmingham. From 1995-2005 he was Chairman of the Dutch Association for Procurement Law (of which he is now an Honorary Member and a member of the Advisory Council). From 2004—206 he was a member of the Advisory Group on Market and Regulation of the Dutch Health Supervisory Authority (in formation) (CTG / Zorgautoriteit i. O.).