Academic staff

Core lecturers of our programme include: 

  • Prof Ton van den Brink is Professor as well as Jean Monnet professor of EU legislative studies and a member of the board of Utrecht Centre of Shared Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). He leads the LLM programme in EU law and chairs the departmental committee for LL.M. programs. His research focuses on EU legislative issues, such as EU Better lawmaking policies, national discretion in EU legislation, the role of parliaments in legislation in specific areas of EU law, such as the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
  • Prof Hanneke van Eijken is Professor by Special Appointment on Rule of Law and Democracy (Alex Brenninkmeijer Wisselleerstoel). She examines the rule of law and democratic processes from a citizens' perspective. Her fields of expertise are European citizenship, fundamental rights and free movement rights.
  • Prof Linda Senden is Professor of European Law. She is a well-known expert on the institutional and constitutional dimension of EU law, with a specific interest in regulatory and enforcement aspects of the European integration process, in its interaction with the national legal orders. She advises the EU Commission on the issues of gender equality in the EU.
  • Prof Sybe de Vries is professor European Economic Law. His research focuses on EU Single Market law and the interconnection between EU free movement law and fundamental rights.
  • Dr Baskaran Balasingham is Assistant Professor in European Competition Law. His areas of expertise include WTO law and European Union law. His main research focus is on competition law and digitalisation. 
  • Dr mr Victoria Daskalova is Assistant Professor at the Department of European Law. Her work explores the question of how competition law and regulation can be applied to monopsony and superior bargaining power, unfair business-to-business practices, and economic dependency. The field of application for these issues is, among others, agri-food supply chains and labour markets. 
  • Dr Türkan Ertuna Lagrand LLM works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and European Law. She specializes in European asylum and immigration law. She also has a strong interest in equality and non-discrimination law and the external relations law of the EU. 
  • Dr Urszula Jaremba is Associate Professor of European law. In her research she focusses on the application of EU law in Member States of the EU, judicial protection in the EU and the EU internal market.
  • Dr Lavinia Kortese her research interests beyond the recognition of qualifications include topics related to the EU internal market (fundamental freedoms), education in the EU, migration, and health. As part of her research activities, Lavinia is particularly interested in what may be described as the law in action, i.e. the connection between research findings to societal developments, issues, and questions.
  • Dr Małgorzata Kozak is Assistant Professore of European Competition Law. She specializes in European Union law and competition law including private and public enforcement, compliance systems and vertical restraints. 
  • Dr Tatevik Manucharyan specializes in the Law of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Her research focuses on the evolution of socio-economic governance in the EU and the interaction between soft law, hard law and various compliance-inducing mechanisms in this context. 
  • Dr  Nathan Meershoek, Assistant Professor in European Law. In his research, he addresses the legal tensions between EU public procurement law and the EU’s aim of establishing a Eu defence policy.
  • Dr Salvatore Nicolosi, Associate Professor in European and International law. His research , mainly focuses on EU migration law and combines expertise in the domains of European law, international human rights law and international refugee law, with particular attention to the development of the Common European Asylum System. He also coordinate the LLM programme in European Law.
  • Dr Dionysios Pelekis his research focuses on State aid law, industrial policy (and the interrelation of the two), as well as competition law more broadly. He also maintains a keen interest in European and international tax law, on public procurement, and on the single market more broadly.
  • Dr Pauline Phoa is Assistant Professor in EU law. Her research mainly focuses on sustainability in the EU
  • Dr Miroslava (Mira) Scholten is Assistant Professor European law at Utrecht University. In her research, she focuses on EU institutional and comparative constitutional and administrative law, including EU agencies, accountability and the new trend of enhancing EU direct enforcement power.
  • Dr Thomas Verellen works as Assistant Professor in European Union and International Law and is Research Fellow at the Institute for European Law, KU Leuven. He is an expert in EU and comparative foreign relations law and has a particular interest in the impact of geopolitical change on the governance of EU trade and investment policy.