Piet VAN NUFFEL

Prof. Dr. Piet Van Nuffel is member of the Legal Service of the European Commission; Professor of European law (part-time) at the KU Leuven and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Natolin).

He obtained a Ph.D. in law (KU Leuven, 1999) and LL.M. (Harvard, 1993). Previously, he was research fellow at the KU Leuven (1993-1999); legal secretary at the General Court of the European Union (1999-2001); administrator at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition (2001-2003) and legal secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2003-2009).

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His research focuses on the law of the European Union, covering institutional aspects (the constitutional foundations of European integration; the relationship between national, international and European law; the position of decentralised authorities; citizenship and judicial protection; procedural law) as well as substantive law (competition law; free movement of persons, services, goods and capital; external relations) and theory of law. He published a prize-winning monograph on the judicial protection of national authorities in European law (De rechtsbescherming van nationale overheden in het Europees recht, Kluwer, 2000) as well as numerous articles and case annotations on various aspects of the law of the European Union. He co-authored with Koen Lenaerts a treatise on the law of the European Union, both in English (European Union Law, previously Constitutional Law of the European Union, Sweet & Maxwell, third revised edition of 2011) and Dutch (Europees Recht, Intersentia, fourth revised edition of 2011). Other recent publications focused on the preliminary rulings procedure, on the role of the Court of Justice in matters of asylum and migration and on the principle of subsidiarity and on the Commission's intervention as amicus curiae before European and national courts.