Participating institutions and their representatives

Members of the Governing Board of CLEER

Prof. Merijn Chamon: Merijn Chamon is Professor of EU law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). His research interests focus on EU constitutional and institutional law as well as the law of EU external relations. In the latter area he is specifically interested in the question of the horizontal and vertical division of competences in the EU, and the resulting issue of mixed action in the EU's external relations.

Prof. Peter van Elsuwege: Peter Van Elsuwege holds a PhD in Law from University of Ghent. He joined the European Institute of Ghent University in October 2001 and worked as an Academic Assistant and as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the European Law Department. On 1 February 2010, he was appointed Tenure Track Professor in EU law. He is also co-director of the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI). His research activities essentially focus on the law of EU external relations. Specific attention is devoted to the legal framework of the relations between the European Union and its East European neighbours. He is also an affiliated member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) and the Centre for Russian International, Socio-Political and Economic Studies (CERISE). He published his book “From Soviet Republics to EU Member States: A Legal and Political Assessment of the Baltic States' Accession to the EU” (Martinus Nijhoff) and authored a considerable number of book chapters for books focusing particularly on external relations of the EU.

Dr Joris Larik: Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute, where he was awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law. His research focuses on EU external relations law and global governance. Dr. Larik is the author of “Foreign Policy Objectives in European Constitutional Law” (OUP 2016), co-author of “ASEAN’s External Agreements: Law, Practice and the Quest for Collective Action” (CUP 2015), and co-editor of “EU External Relations Law: Text, Cases and Materials” (2^nd edn, Hart 2020). He has published in leading journals, including AJIL, CMLR, EJIL, and ICLQ. In addition, he is a senior advisor and non-resident fellow for the Global Governance, Justice & Security Program at the Stimson Center. In 2022, he was appointed to the Committee on European Integration of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. 

Prof. Eleftheria Neframi: Eleftheria Neframi is Professor of European Union law at the University of Luxembourg since 2012. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, she held a position as professor at the University Sorbonne Paris-Nord. She graduated in law from the University of Athens and obtained her PhD at the University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas. She holds an LLM in European Law (University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas) and an LLM in International Economic Law (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne). She attained full professorship through national competition in France (agrégation) in 2004. Eleftheria Neframi is director of the Master in European Litigation. She is visiting professor at the University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas and at the University of Athens. Eleftheria Neframi is an established expert in EU law with a focus on the institutional and substantive dimensions of the interaction between European, international and national legal orders. She published extensively on the external action of the EU, especially the division of competences between the EU and the Member States in the conclusion and management of international agreements, as well as the role of domestic courts in implementing EU law, including EU international agreements.

Prof. Andrea Ott: Andrea Ott is Professor of EU External Relations Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. She obtained her PhD in 1996 on the integration of GATT/WTO law into the EC legal order from University of Greifswald (Germany). From 1998 until 2003 she was senior research fellow in European Law and International Economic Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague, the Netherlands, and in 2002/2003 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She teaches regularly on EU institutional law, EU external relations, enlargement and WTO law in the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia and China. She is IUS Commune programme coordinator of the research programme “Integration, Differentiation and Flexibility: New Perspectives on EU Law and Policy”. She is member of the editorial committee of Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. Some of her publications include “Fifty Years of European Integration: Foundations and Perspectives” (T.M.C. Asser Press), “The European Parliament’s role in EU treaty-making” and “EU-Turkey cooperation in Migration matters: A game changer in a multi-layered relationship?” among many others.

Prof. Ramses A. Wessel: Ramses A. Wessel is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor of European Law and Head of the European and Economic Law Department at the University of Groningen. His additional functions include: Member of the standing Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law (CAVV) of the Netherlands’ government; Editor-in-Chief and founder of the International Organizations Law Review and of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Editor of European Papers and of Nijhoff Studies in European Union Law and member of the Editorial Board of the CLEER Papers series and of Europe and the World.  He is a well-known specialist in international and European law and governance and a prolific writer of over 200 academic publications. He participates in a number of European research projects. Some of his recent publications include “Consequences of Brexit for international agreements concluded by the EU and its Member States”, “Studying International and European Law: Confronting Perspectives and Combining Interests” and “Integration and Constitutionalisation in EU Foreign and Security Policy”.
 
Dr Eva Kassoti (academic programme coordinator): Eva Kassoti is a Senior Researcher in International and EU Law as well as the academic co-ordinator for the Centre of the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) at the T.M.C. Asser Institute. Eva read law at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and was subsequently admitted to the Greek bar. She completed the LL.M. in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. Her monograph entitled ‘The Juridical Nature of Unilateral acts of States in International Law” was published in 2015. Before joining the T.M.C. Asser Institute, Eva worked as a Senior Lecturer in International and EU Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences from 2012 to 2018. Eva has held visiting fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany), the T.M.C. Asser Institute, and the EUI (Florence).