Mitchel Lasser

DRT Louvain-La-Neuve

Cornell Law School

Domaine d'expertise : Comparative Law - EU Law

Mitchel Lasser is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies and co-directs the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris. He teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, and judicial process. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva, the NYU School of Law, Paris-V (Descartes), the Católica Global Law School (Lisbon), and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Law Department of the European University Institute (Florence) and was the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

Professor Lasser has published two monographs with Oxford University Press: Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy and Judicial Transformations: The Rights Revolution in the Courts of Europe. He is currently completing a book analyzing the recent reforms to the appointments processes to the ECJ and the ECtHR, tentatively entitled Judicial (Dis-)Appointments: Debating Judicial Independence and Judicial Quality at the ECJ and the ECtHR.

Enseignement

  • Lundi 4 décembre, 16h15 à 18h15 (Doyen 31) : Lecture on "Judicial (dis)appointments, judicial independence and the European High Courts" [Droit constitutionnel - LCOPS1211 - C. Romainville]. Plus d'informations.
  • Mercredi 6 décembre, 9h00 - 10h30 (Salle Dabin) :  "Constitutional Metaphors". Petit déjeuner débat pour les étudiants des finalités "Droit européen" et "Droit et Etat". Plus d'informations.
  • Mercredi 6 décembre, 14h00 - 16h00 (More 51) : "Politiques européennes" [Politiques européennes - LDREU2202 - S. Francq]. Plus d'informations.

Recherche

  • Vendredi 8 décembre, 12h45 à 14h30 (Louvain House - Espace du Lac) : Research seminar "Judicial transformation : The fundamental rights revolution in France and Europe". Conférence d'intérêt facultaire. Plus d'informations.

 

Invité par les Professeurs S. Francq, C. Romainville, M. Verdussen, S. Weerts, D. Gérard et A.-L. Sibony