Dr. Sebastian Meyer

Dr. Sebastian Meyer

Researcher
International and European Law
s.meyer@uu.nl

Sebastian Meyer is a senior researcher at the Utrecht University Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP), where he is doing research into legal innovations in the field of defence procurement. Before joining UUCePP, he was affiliated with the Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (Renforce).

 

Sebastian Meyer is an expert in the law of the European Union (EU), especially in constitutional and institutional questions. In his research, Sebastian studies different fields of EU law from a constitutional point of view, focussing thus far on EU migration management and public procurement law. By enriching legal doctrine with conceptual and theoretical insights, Sebastian analyses these areas of law not in isolation but as part of a broader (European) legal and political system. Thanks to this approach it is possible to expose and discuss (conflicting) values, principles and interests in and across systems of governance. Afterwards, the theoretical insights gained can be integrated into doctrinal, practice-oriented legal analysis – or used as a source of inspiration to change the law as it stands. 

 

In his dissertation, Sebastian demonstrates how EU Member States can reconcile, as far as migration management is concerned, the tensions resulting from EU membership and sovereign statehood. Likewise, in a project co-led by himself (forthcoming with Routledge), he shows how a constitutional lens can help better connect the stages of refugee admission and integration. At the moment, Sebastian examines the broader European context of defence procurement in the Netherlands, navigating tensions such as those potentially arising from the constitutional obligation to protect the domestic population and the need for European cooperation with a view to “strategic autonomy”.

 

Sebastian Meyer earned his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland). There he was affiliated with the interdisciplinary Institute for European Global Studies, where he taught in various fields of European law. In particular, Sebastian contributed to the development of an innovative basic course on EU law, which combines the “flipped classroom” with online learning. He was also a successful coach in the European Law Moot Court Competition. Before moving to Switzerland, Sebastian graduated cum laude from the Master’s programme in European Law at Leiden University.