Author Description

About the Author Pieter Jan Kuijper, Professor of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations, University of Amsterdam,Jan Wouters, Jean Monnet Chair and Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute forInternational Law, University of Leuven,Frank Hoffmeister, European Commission,Geert de Baere, Assistant Professor of EU Law and International Law at the Faculty of Law and Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven,Thomas Ramopoulos, Research Fellow,Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies; Doctoral Researcher, Institute for International Law, University of LeuvenProfessor Pieter Jan Kuijper returned to the University of Amsterdam (where he had previously been Professor of International Law and International Relations in the Political Science Department between 1984 and 1987) as Professor of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations in the faculty ofLaw in 2007. He has had a mixed career as an academic and a practitioner of International and European Law in the universities of Leiden and Amsterdam and in the European Commission and the WTO Secretariat. His most recent posts in international organizations have been Director of the Legal AffairsDivision of the WTO Secretariat (1999-2002) and Principal Legal Advisor and Director of the External Relations and Trade Division of the Legal Service of the European Commission (2002-2007).Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters (LLM Yale) is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair of EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, an instituterecognized as Centre of Excellence which furthers interdisciplinary research on the EU and global governance. He is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), at Sciences Po (Paris), at the University of Barcelona, and in the European Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA,Venice). He is Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, has been referendaire at the European Court of Justice and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations and Vice-Director ofRevue belge de droit international. He has published widely on the EU, international law, and international organizations.Prof. Dr. Frank Hoffmeister is Deputy Head of Cabinet of the EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and teaches international economic law at the Free University of Brussels. He has been a long-standing member of the Commission Legal Service, specialised in international and institutional law(2002-2010). Frank holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg (1998) and has worked as an assistant at the Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law in Berlin (1998-2001). He has published widely on European law and international law and was visiting scholar in a number ofUniversities, including Florence and Oxford. Frank is member of the Editorial Board of the "Studies in EU External Relations", edited by Marc Maresceau.Geert De Baere is Assistant Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Faculty of Law and Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven. He studied law at the University of Antwerp and at King's College, Cambridge. In 2005, he was a visiting researchfellow at Columbia Law School's European Legal Studies Center, New York City. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a referendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Sharpston at the Court of Justice of the EU, while being a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Antwerp. His researchinterests include the legal organization of EU external relations, the relationship between EU law and international law, comparative constitutional l