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Deirdre Curtin

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Deirdre Curtin (2014)

Deirdre M. Curtin (born 17 January 1960) is a legal scholar who works in the area of law and governance of the European Union. Since 2015 she is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute of Florence.[1]

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Curtin studied law at University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. She was appointed to the faculty of the Europa Institute at Utrecht University.[2] In 2003, she moved to the professorship of International and European Governance and the multidisciplinary Utrecht School of Governance. In 2008 she was appointed Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam, where in 2009 she founded the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance ACELG.[3] Additionally for many years she was visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Since 2003 Curtin is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] She was the first woman to be appointed a member of the academy in the section law. In 2007, she won the Spinozapremie,[5] the first time it was awarded to a lawyer. In May 2021, she was made a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[6]

Her specialist fields are European law and governance of the European Union. She studies phenomena such as democracy, legitimacy and accountability.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Deirdre Curtin". European University Institute. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Prof.dr. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin". Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "mw. prof. dr. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin - Universiteit van Amsterdam". www.uva.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Deirdre Curtin" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  5. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 2007". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Admittance Day 2021". Royal Irish Academy. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Amtenbrink, D. Curtin, B. de Witte, P.J. Kuijper, A. McDonnell, S. van den Bogaert (eds.), Law of the European Union, Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International, 2018.
  • Fahey, E. and Curtin, D. (eds.), A Transatlantic Community of Law. Legal Perspectives on the Relationship between the EU and US Legal Orders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • Curtin, D., Mair, P. and Papadopoulos, I. (eds.), Accountability and European Governance, London: Routledge, 2012.
  • Bovens, M., Curtin, D. and t'Hart, P. (eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability. What Deficit?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Curtin, D., Executive Power in the European Union. Law, Practices and the Living Constitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Articles

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  • Curtin, D., "Second Order Secrecy and Europe’s Legality Mosaics", West European Politics, 2018, 41(4), pp. 846–868.
  • Curtin, D. & Leino-Sandberg, P., "In Search of Transparency for EU Law-Making: Trilogues on the Cusp of Dawn", Common Market Law Review, 2017, 54(6), pp. 1673–1712.
  • Curtin, D., "Accountable Independence of the European Central Bank: Seeing the Logics of Transparency", European Law Journal, 2017, 23(1-2), 28–44.
  • Curtin, D., "Data Privacy Rights and Democracy: Ireland, Europe and Beyond", Irish Journal of European Law, 2015, 18(2), pp. 5 – 14.
  • Curtin, D., "The Challenge of Executive Democracy in Europe", Modern Law Review, 2014, 77(1), pp. 1 – 32.
  • Curtin, D., Hillebrandt, M., & Meijer, A., "Transparency in the EU Council of Ministers: An Institutional Analysis", European Law Journal, 2014, 20(1), pp. 1–20.
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