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Deirdre M. Curtin (born 17 January 1960) is a legal scholar who works in the area of law and governance of the European Union. She is known for her work on European Union law and governance,[1] in which she has promoted the use of empirical methods for the study of the law.[2] Since 2015, she is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute of Florence.[3]

Career

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, Curtin studied law at University College Dublin, completing her degree in 1980.[4] After finishing her studies, Curtin joined Trinity College, Dublin as a Master's student and Frances E. Moran Research Scholar and Tutor in Criminal Law and the Law of Torts.[4] She then moved to Leiden University, where she worked as a Lecturer in European Community Law.[5]

In 1985, Curtin joined the Court of Justice of the European Union as a legal secretary (référendaire) to Judge T. F. O'Higgins, a position she held until 1991. After her term at the Court, she joined Utrecht University as full professor of Law of International Organizations,[1] moving in 2003 to the chair of International and European Governance at the multidisciplinary Utrecht School of Governance, which she held (part-time) until 2013.[6]

After some years at the Utrecht School of Governance, Curtin joined the University of Amsterdam in 2008 as a Professor of European Law, where she was the founding director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG).[6] She left that professorship in 2015, to join the European University Institute as Professor of European Union Law, but retained her affiliation with the University of Amsterdam until 2016.[3]

Academic work

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Deirdre Curtin’s research deals with the law and governance of the European Union. Her publications have engaged with various aspects of European law, such as the harmonization of labour law in the European Union single market,[5] the regulation of financial markets[7] and artificial intelligence technologies, and the governance of data flows among administrative bodies.[8] In studying those various phenomena, she analyses how the expansion of the European Union into new domains affects the concepts that structure European Union law and the institutions that make it function.[9]

Curtin has written extensively on phenomenon of differentiated integration, having coined the “Europe of bits and pieces” to refer to its piecemeal development after the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.[10] After the 2009 Lisbon Treaty consolidated the European Union’s legal personality, she updated her description to a “a Union of variegated differentiation”, in which European Union law retains its unitary character even if some parts of it are more integrated than others.[11] More generally, her work examines the transparency,[12] the legitimacy,[13] and the accountability[14] of the European Union institutions as the roles of those institutions change over time.[1]

In particular, Curtin analyses those concepts in the context of European Union’s executive power.[15] Some of her most-cited works deal with the challenges involved in holding European institutions, agencies, and bodies accountable,[16] such as the lack of information about their inner workings.[7] According to Curtin, accountability mechanisms, and the access to public information needed for their functioning, are essential for the democratic legitimacy of those institutions.[17] In addition to her scholarship on those topics, Curtin was also active in the drafting of the law governing access to records at the European Union level (Regulation (EC) 1049/2001).[1]

Awards and honours

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Since 2003 Curtin is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[18] She was the first woman to be appointed a member of the academy in the section law. In 2007, she won the Spinozapremie,[19] the first time it was awarded to a lawyer. In May 2021, she was made a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[20]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Curtin, D., & Catanzariti, M. (eds.). (2023). Data at the boundaries of European law (Vol. 30). Oxford University Press.
  • Amtenbrink F., Curtin, D., de Witte, B., Kuijper, P.J., McDonnell, A., van den Bogaert, S. (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.
  • Curtin, D., "The Constitutional Structure of the Union: A Europe of Bits and Pieces", Common Market Law Review,1993, 30(1), pp. 17-69.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Prof. dr. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin | NWO". web.archive.org. 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  2. ^ Korkea-Aho, Emilia; Leino, Päivi (2019). "Interviewing lawyers: a critical self-reflection on expert interviews as a method of EU legal research". European Journal of Legal Studies. 11 (Special Issue): 26 – via CADMUS.
  3. ^ a b "Deirdre Curtin". European University Institute. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  4. ^ a b Curtin, Deirdre (23 September 2024). "Home".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b Curtin, Deirdre (1984). "Sexual Harassment in Employment - Developing a Standard of Employer Liability". Dublin University Law Journal. 6.
  6. ^ a b "mw. prof. dr. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin - Universiteit van Amsterdam". web.archive.org. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  7. ^ a b Curtin, Deirdre (2017-03). "'Accountable Independence' of the European Central Bank: Seeing the Logics of Transparency". European Law Journal. 23 (1–2): 28–44. doi:10.1111/eulj.12211. ISSN 1351-5993. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Curtin, Deirdre M.; Bastos, Filipe Brito (2020-03-01). "Interoperable Information Sharing and the Five Novel Frontiers of EU Governance: A Special Issue". European Public Law. 26 (Issue 1): 59–70. doi:10.54648/EURO2020004. ISSN 1354-3725. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
  9. ^ Curtin, Deirdre (2020-03-26), Fisher, Elizabeth; King, Jeff; Young, Alison (eds.), "The EU Automated State Disassembled", The Foundations and Future of Public Law (1 ed.), Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 233–256, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198845249.003.0012, ISBN 978-0-19-884524-9, retrieved 2024-09-23
  10. ^ Curtin, Deirdre M. (1993). "The Constitutional Structure of the Union: A Europe of Bits and Pieces". Common Market Law Review. 30 (Issue 1): 17–69. doi:10.54648/COLA1993003. ISSN 0165-0750. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
  11. ^ Curtin, Deirdre (2021-08-30), "From a Europe of Bits and Pieces to a Union of Variegated Differentiation", The Evolution of EU Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 373–398, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192846556.003.0012, ISBN 978-0-19-284655-6, retrieved 2024-09-23
  12. ^ Curtin, Deirdre M.; Leino, Päivi (2017-11-01). "In search of transparency for EU law-making: Trilogues on the cusp of dawn". Common Market Law Review. 54 (Issue 6): 1673–1712. doi:10.54648/COLA2017146. ISSN 0165-0750. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
  13. ^ Curtin, Deirdre (2006). "Making a political constitution for the European Union". European Journal of Law Reform. 8 (3) – via HeinOnline.
  14. ^ Curtin, Deirdre; Mair, Peter; Papadopoulos, Yannis (2010-09). "Positioning Accountability in European Governance: An Introduction". West European Politics. 33 (5): 929–945. doi:10.1080/01402382.2010.485862. ISSN 0140-2382. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ Curtin, Deirdre (2010). Executive power of the European Union: law, practice, and living constitution. Collected courses of the Academy of European Law (Repr ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926409-4.
  16. ^ Curtin, Deirdre (2007-07). "Holding (Quasi‐)Autonomous EU Administrative Actors to Public Account". European Law Journal. 13 (4): 523–541. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0386.2007.00382.x. ISSN 1351-5993. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Curtin, Deirdre; Meijer, Albert Jacob (2006-10-25). "Does transparency strengthen legitimacy?". Information Polity. 11 (2): 109–122. doi:10.3233/IP-2006-0091.
  18. ^ "Deirdre Curtin" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  19. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 2007". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  20. ^ "Admittance Day 2021". Royal Irish Academy. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-26.




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