Teaching Staff - Institute for European Studies - Université Saint-Louis

Recently appointed as the new Director of the Institute for European Studies, Antoine Bailleux is a professor of EU law and legal theory. A member of the Brussels Bar, he also works at the law firm Van Bael & Bellis. He is the co-director of the Séminaire interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques and the chief-editor of the Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques - Droit en contexte. EU constitutional law is his main area of expertise, with a special focus on fundamental rights, free movement, and the legal foundations of the EU. He has published extensively in the field of EU and international law, including La compétence universelle au carrefour de la pyramide et du réseau (2005), Les interactions entre libre circulation et droits fondamentaux dans la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice (2009), and (with Hugues Dumont) Le pacte constitutionnel européen, Tome 1 (2015). In the framework of the Master in European Studies, he teaches "Human Rights and Values in Europe".

Jan Willem BROUWER

Jan Willem BROUWER (1956) is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Parliamentary History (CPG) at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Since 1997 he is also a visiting professor at the Institute for European Studies at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Brouwer’s research interests lie in modern Dutch political history and in international relations since 1945, in particular European integration. Recent publications include: ‘1973 – année de l’Europe ou année de l’embargo? Les Pays-Bas entre les Neuf et l’Alliance atlantique’ in: Andreas Wilkens (ed.), Une année particulière. 1973 et les tourments de l’Europe (forthcoming) and (with Ine Megens) Joseph Luns, 1911-2002 (Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2012). Brouwer was co-editor of The European Commission 1973-1986. History and memories of an institution (Luxembourg, PO/EU, 2014). He teaches the course, "History of the European Integration (interwar's period to European enlargement)".

Eric BUSSIERE

Eric Bussière is a professor (Chaire Jean Monnet) of contemporary European history at the Sorbonne (Université Paris IV), where he teaches the history of European integration. He is a member of the scientific advisory council of Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France (CHEFF) and Honorary Chairman of the Association Georges Pompidou. He is also a member of the Académie d'histoire du Portugal, and of the Académie européenne de Yuste (Spain). His research interests include banking, history, and European integration especially in the field of economics. Among his latest publications, he co-edited La Commission européenne, 1973-1986, Histoire et mémoires d’une institution, Luxembourg, OPOCE, 2014 and is the author of Les années Barroso (2004-2014) – Europe : crises et relances, Paris, Taillandier, 2014, 304 p. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches "L'Union économique et monétaire".

Jean-Yves CARLIER

Jean-Yves Carlier is a professor in Belgium at the Université catholique de Louvain, at the Université de Liège, and at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. He is also a Barrister (avocat). He is or was a visiting professor in different universities (Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Caen, Strasbourg, Aix-Marseille, Montréal, Den Hague Academy of International Law, Rabat, Tunis, Ouagadougou, Cotonou, Bujumbura, Bukavu). He teaches International Private Law, European Law, and Human Rights. Within the Master in European Studies he teaches the course Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice

Yves Conrad

Bernard COULIE

Born in Brussels in 1959, Bernard Coulie is married and a father of three children. He lives in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He graduated from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), where he got his PhD in Oriental Studies, before going abroad for two post-doc stays, at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies (Harvard University) and at the University of Vienna. He launched his career at the National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium, and was appointed as a professor at the UCL. He teaches Armenian, Georgian, and Byzantine studies, as well as the history and current relevance of European culture. He was been the rector (vice-chancellor) of the UCL from 2004 to 2009. He is interested in international politics, European studies, and the future of higher education. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches the following courses "Culture et identité européennes" and "Orient et Occident : identités, traditions et modernités".

Jean-Louis DE BROUWER

Jean-Louis De Brouwer is the Director of Operations in the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO). He joined ECHO in November 2012, having previously been the Director in charge of the coordination of employment politics in the Commission's department for Employment and Social Affairs. Prior to that, he spent 18 years in the Justice and Home Affairs department, specialising in migration and asylum questions, in the latter case as the Director in charge of border and visa issues. Before joining the European Commission, Mr De Brouwer worked in the Belgian civil service (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs). Mr De Brouwer has Masters Degrees in Law and Sociology from the Université catholique de Louvain, where he also obtained his degree in Political Sciences. Born in 1954, he is married with four children. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches the course Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice.

Nicolas DE SADELEER

Nicolas de Sadeleer is a Professor of Law at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) where he teaches EU law, comparative law, and environmental law. He has been a guest professor at many universities, including currently at Université catholique de Louvain and at Universidade da Coruña (Spain). He held an EU Marie Curie Chair on Risk Assessment and Risk Management among the law faculty of the Universitetet i Oslo from 2004 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2014 he held a Jean Monnet Chair focusing on trade and environmental conflict. Prof. de Sadeleer is the author of Environmental Principles (2002) and EU Environmental Law and the Internal Market (2014). He has published extensively in English, French, and Spanish on international environmental law, EU institutional law, and EU environmental law in international peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Journal of Environmental & Planning Law, Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne).

At the IEE USL-B, he teaches the course "Environment, Consumer Protection and Health Policies".

Alexandre DE STREEL

Alexandre de Streel is a Professor of European law at the University of Namur (Belgium) where he is the Director of the Research Centre for Information, Law, and Society (CRIDS). He is also a joint-academic director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). Alexandre is also an assessor (member of the decisional body) at the Belgian Competition Authority, a visiting professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) at the European University Institute in Florence and a visiting fellow at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht. Previously, he has been the European advisor to the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the counsellor in charge of economic and employment policies at the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union during the 2010 Belgian Presidency, and an expert in charge of telecommunications regulation at the European Commission, DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute (Florence) on the relationship between telecom regulation and competition law, and a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Louvain. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches the course Processus décisionnel européen : théorie et pratique

Jean-Christophe DEFRAIGNE

Jean-Christophe Defraigne holds a MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Brussels. He has taught at the University of International Business and Economics of Beijing (Jing Mao Da Xue) and at Zhejiang Da Xue. He is currently a professor in Economics attached to the Institute for European Studies at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) and a visiting Professor at the Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain. His research focuses on global economic history (trade, FDI, technology, and geopolitics), European integration, Asian integration, and Emerging Economies with a strong focus on China.

Within the Master in European Studies at the IEE USL-B, he teaches the following courses Economic and social integration in Europe, Relations between the European Union and Africa, Asia, Latin America, Comparative Analysis of Regional Integration Processes (Europe, Asia, America).

Bernard DELBECQUE

Bernard Delbecque is a Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. He is also the Director of Economics and Research at the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). He started his working career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C. (1987-1991), after which he worked as an adviser to the Belgian Finance Minister on European monetary integration, international monetary and financial affairs, and fiscal consolidation (1992-1999). He is a graduate of the Université of Namur in Belgium, and has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. In the framework of the Master in European Studies, he teaches the course "L'Union économique et monétaire".

Tom DELREUX

Tom Delreux is a professor of political science at the Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Before joining the UCL in 2010, he was a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) at the University of Leuven, where he graduated in 2008. His research and teaching activities focus on European Union politics and institutions. In particular, his research interests include the EU’s external relations, EU environmental policy, inter- and intra-institutional relations in the EU, and international environmental politics. His work has appeared in several academic journals, and he is also the author of three academic books: The EU as International Environmental Negotiator (Ashgate, 2011), which studies internal EU decision-making processes in the context of multilateral environmental negotiations, The Foreign Policy of the European Union (co-authored with Stephan Keukeleire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the foreign policy of the EU, and Environmental Policy and Politics in the European Union (co-authored with Sander Happaerts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which provides a state-of-the-art analysis of EU environmental policy and the political dynamics that shape it. He teaches the following Master in European Studies' courses: "Europeanisation"

"Political theories and regime of the European Union", "External Action of the European Union" and "Actors of the European Political System".

Renaud DENUIT

Renaud Denuit (PhD, UCL) is currently a lecturer at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) and at the ICHEC-Brussels Management School. He has also worked as a journalist for the Belgian Radio and Television (RTBF) (1973-1985) and as an administrator for the European Commission (1985-2012) in which his last position was an advisor in the Directorate General Education and Culture. His articles have appeared in Le Monde, Notre Temps, La Revue nouvelle, La Libre Belgique and more recently La Revue Générale, among others. He has published 16 books of philosophy, poetry, politics, and fiction. His recent publications include : Nietzsche-à-Nice. Petit traité de logique européenne (2005), L’Antiprince. Etudes sur la réciprocité ontologie-centralisme (2011), Histoires de la Détermination (2012), La Mine et la Dune (2015). He is now finalizing a book about the European Cultural Policy, to be published soon in Brussels, Bruylant (coll. Idées d’Europe). He is a speaker for the « Collègue Belgique » set up by the Royal Academy of Belgium. At the IEE USL-B, Renaud Denuit teaches the course "Politiques de recherche, éducation, culture et médias".

Denis DUEZ

Denis Duez is a professor of political science and the director of the Institute for European Studies at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B). He is working on European internal security policies, with a special focus on border management. He analyses border controls practices with regard to the issue of legitimacy of the European integration process. In his recent work, he analyses the regulation/deregulation processes of mobilities in Europe and the ongoing construction of digital external borders. He has published L’Union européenne et l’immigration clandestine. De la sécurité intérieure à la construction de la communauté politique (Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2008). More recently he co-edited with Olivier Paye and Christophe Verdure L’Européanisation. Sciences humaines et nouveaux enjeux (Bruylant, collection « Idées d’Europe », 2014) and with Florence Delmotte Les frontières de la communauté. Faire, défaire et penser les frontières (Bruxelles, Presses de l’Université Saint-Louis, 2016). Within the Master in European Studies at the IEE USL-B, he teaches the courses Acteurs du système politique européen, Mémoire 2 et séminaire, Européanisation

Tanguy DE WILDE

Tanguy de Wilde d'Estmael is a Professor of Geopolitics and International Relations in the Louvain School of Political and Social Sciences and in the European Studies Institute at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Former Head of the Louvain School of Political and Social Sciences (2007-2013) and the Center for International Crises and Conflicts Studies (2001-2007), he is currently the UCL-director of both the Baillet Latour Chair of EU-Russia Relations and the Baillet Latour Chair of EU-China Relations. He has been a Visiting Scholar in Beirut, Geneva, Paris, Praia, Szeged, Toulouse and Tunis. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches the course Politique étrangère, sécurité et défense européenne.

Vincent DUJARDIN

Hugues DUMONT

Hugues Dumont is a professor of constitutional law, legal theory, and European institutional law at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B). He is currently the President of both the Institute for European Studies (IEE) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Constitutional Law and Culture (CIRCC). He is also co-director of the Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Seminar (SIEJ) at the USL-B. Author of several articles in the fields of public law and legal theories, he has recently co-edited Le pacte constitutionnel européen. Tome 1. Fondements du droit institutionnel de l'Union, Bruylant, 2015. In the framework of the Master in European Studies, he teaches "Droit institutionnel de l'Union européenne".

Marc FALLON

Marc Fallon's present position is as the emeritus professor of law at the Université catholique de Louvain. He has been the dean of the Faculty of law and the chair of private international law and substantive law of the European Union.

He is the author of more than 250 publications, mainly in the field of conflicting laws relating to the national and European codification process, and in the field of EU internal market law. He teaches the course "Droit matériel de l'Union européenne" .

Marcel GERARD

Marcel GERARD studied economics at Namur, Manchester and Harvard. Currently an emeritus professor at the Université catholique de Louvain and the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, he still teaches economics and taxation at those universities and in the College of Europe in Bruges. Previously he taught at Namur, Mons FUCaM, Brussels ICHEC, Liège HEC and occasionally in Northern America, Europe and Japan. He is affiliated with the Louvain School of Management and is a CESifo Fellow. As a researcher in Fiscal Federalism, European integration, Taxation and Higher Education, he has published numerous articles and working papers, and contributed to, or edited, books in English, French, and Dutch. During his career he served his universities in various capacities, working as a consultant for organizations, including the European Union and the Belgian and Quebec governments, and he is a referee for various academic journals. He teaches the following Master in European Studies' course "Politiques économiques européennes".

Anne-Sophie GIJS

Jacques KELLER-NOELLET

Starting in 1981, Jacques Keller-Noëllet was an advisor then a director in the private office of the Council's secretary-general. From 2003 to 2007 he was the deputy director-general for general policy questions. He managed the secretariat teams supporting the European Council and five intergovernmental conferences (the Single European Act, Masstricht, Amsterdam, Nice and the Constitutional Treaty). He is a senior fellow at the Egmont Institute in Brussels. Within the Master in European Studies at the IEE USL-B, he teaches the course Séminaire interdisciplinaire : Penser l'Europe.

René LERAY

Ivo MAES

Ivo Maes is a Senior Advisor at the Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a professor, Robert Triffin Chair, at the Université Catholique de Louvain and at ICHEC Brussels Business School. He is the President of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. His current research focuses on the history of central banking and European monetary and financial integration. His books include Economic Thought and the Making of European Monetary Union (Edward Elgar, 2002), Half a century of European financial integration. From the Rome Treaty to the 21st century (Mercatorfonds, 2007) and Alexandre Lamfalussy. The Wise Man of the Euro. A conversation with Christophe Lamfalussy, Ivo Maes and Sabine Péters (LannooCampus, 2014). Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches Union économique et monétaire.

Paul NIHOUL

Paul Nihoul is a Full Professor of Competition Law at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), and the French University Paris-Dauphine. He has degrees from Belgium (Louvain) and the USA (Harvard, LLM). He has practiced antitrust law in New York and Brussels, as a Counselor to a Cabinet Member (Belgium) and a Law Clerk at the Court of Justice of the European Union. His writings have appeared in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches "European Competition Law", "Institutional Law of the European Union" and "Droit européen de la consommation".

Marc OTTE

Marc Otte was born April 26th, 1947. He has been the Director for Policy Planning, MFA Brussels Belgium, since March 2011. He was the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process from 2003 to 2011 and the Advisor on Defence and Security Policy to the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana (99 to 03). He joined the Belgian MFA in 1976 and held various assignments including, Consul General in Los Angeles, Ambassador to Israel, and Director for Security Policy and Disarmament. He holds a Master in Political and Social Sciences and a post-graduate from the Institute for Developing Countries, University of Louvain, Belgium. He wrote several articles and publications on transatlantic issues, European Security and Defence policy, and the Middle East Peace Process. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches Questions d'actualité européenne 2 / Current European Topics 2.

Stéphane SAUREL

Anne-Lise SIBONY

Anne-Lise Sibony is a professor of European Law at the Université catholique de Louvain. She studied law and economics in Paris, graduated from the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and holds an MsC in Regulation from the London School of Economics. Anne-Lise wrote her PhD on the judicial use of economic reasoning in competition law. Her main research interest lies more broadly in how scientific knowledge (mainly economics and psychology) is used in the legal sphere. Her current focus is on behaviourally-informed law making at EU level. Anne-Lise is a guest professor at University Paris II and at the European Law and Governance School. Within the Master in European Studies, she teaches Substantive law of the European Union.

Nathalie TOUSIGNANT

Nathalie Tousignant is a Professor of Contemporary History at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. She holds a Ph.D. in History (Université Laval, 1995) and is currently the Co-director of CRHIDI (Centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions); She is also the local coordinator of the research project "IAP (VII) BeJust 2.0, Justice & populations". Prof. Tousignant is an expert on the colonial imaginary, especially in film. She focuses her research on the development of new methods of image analysis, combining historian methodology, semiopragmatics, and visual anthropology.

Within the Master in European Studies, she gives the course Séminaire interdisciplinaire : Penser l'Europe.

Eduardo TRAVERSA

Edoardo Traversa is a professor of the Faculty of Law and criminology at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and a visiting professor at KU Leuven and WU Wien. His teaching and research interests mainly focus on the European tax integration and international taxation, as well as fiscal and financial federalism and the interaction between taxation and public policies. He regularly advises various EU and Belgian public authorities on those issues.Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches the following courses "European and International Tax Law" and "EU Tax Policy and Globalisation".

François VAN DER MENSBBRUGHE

François van der Mensbrugghe studied law and economics in France (Aix-en-Provence and Paris), Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve), and the U.K. (London School of Economics). Professionally, he served as an attorney at the Paris bar (France) before working as an expert at the European Commission (in DG XIII - Telecommunications, Information Market, and Exploitation of Research). He is currently working as a Professor of Law at the University of Saint-Louis in Brussels, as well as the University of Liège (Ulg). His principal interests cover European Union Law, the Common Law, and regulation of the network industries. Within the Master in European Studies, he teaches Institutional Law of the European Union.

Virginie VAN IGGELGOM

Virginie Van Ingelgom (PhD) is a Research Associate Professor F.R.S. – FNRS at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and an associate research fellow of the Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po Paris. She received her PhD from Sciences Po Paris and UCLouvain. Her dissertation, entitled “Integrating indifference: a comparative, qualitative and quantitative approach to the legitimacy of European integration ”, was awarded the Theseus Award for Promising Research on European Integration (2010), the Best Dissertation Prize in "Comparative Politics" of the French Political Science Association and Mattei Dogan Fondation (2011), and the Jean Blondel Ph.D. Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research (2012). She recently co-authored ‘Citizens’ Reactions to European Integration Compared. Overlooking Europe’ (2013, Palgrave) proceeding from the CITAE project – Citizens talking about Europe (Sciences Po Paris, UCL and the University of Oxford). Her current teaching commitments include courses at the UCLouvain Master in Political Sciences (Political Sociology) and at the ECPR Summer and Winter School in Methods and Technics (Focus Groups). Within the Master in European Studies, she teaches "Political Sociology of the EU".

Arthe VAN LAER

Philippe VAN PARIJS

Philippe Van Parijs is a professor at the University of Louvain (Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics) and a special guest professor at the University of Leuven. From 2004 to 2010 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University and also from 2011 to 2015 at the University of Oxford. His books include Qu’est-ce qu’une société juste? (Seuil 1991), Real Freedom for All (OUP 1995), Just Democracy (ECPR 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (OUP 2011), After the Storm (Lannoo 2015, with L. van Middelaar) and Basic Income (Harvard U.P. 2017, with Y. Vanderborght). Within the Master in European Studies he teaches Political Philosophy of the European Union.

Herman VAN ROMPUY

Elected as the first full-time President of the European Council in November 2009, Herman Van Rompuy took office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force on 1 December 2009. In 2012, he was re-elected for a second term which ran from June 1st, 2012 until November 30th, 2014. At the time of his first election, Herman Van Rthe ompuy was the Prime Minister of Belgium. Prior to that he had served in Belgium as Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007-2008) and in several government positions, including as the Vice-Prime Minister and the Minister of Budget (1993-1999), the Minister of State (2004) and the Secretary of State for Finance and Small Businesses (1988). A former economist at the National Bank of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy began his political career in 1973 as the national vice-president of his party's youth council. He has held various responsibilities within his party and in the Belgian Parliament, serving in turn as a Senator (1988-1995) and a Member of Parliament (1995-2009). Herman Van Rompuy holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, and a Master's degree in Applied Economics from the University K.U. Leuven. He teaches the course "Questions d'actualité européenne 1 / Current European Topics 1".

Melchior WATHELET

Dirk WOUTERS

Dirk Wouters is currently the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Belgium. He holds a Master of Law (July 1978) at the KULeuven and a Master of Science in Economics (September 1979) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He served as the Deputy to the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations in New York (1995-2000) and had a special mandate to negotiate the Maastricht Treaty as the Deputy Head of the Delegation at the civil servant level (1990-1992), among others. He teaches he course "Questions d'actualité européenne 2 / Current European Topics 2" .