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Eugène Buttigieg (Editor) is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Law and
the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law with the theme ‘Rights and Remedies in
an Integrated European Market’ at the University of Malta. He holds law degrees from
the University of Malta (LL.D.), the University of Exeter, UK (LL.M. with distinction in
European Legal Studies) and the University of London, UK (Ph.D.). His main teaching
and research areas are the institutions and legal order of the EU, judicial protection and
remedies under EU law, EU and comparative competition law, EU and comparative
consumer law and EU and international intellectual property law. He has published
widely and is the author of, amongst others, Competition Law: Safeguarding the
Consumer Interest. A Comparative Analysis of US Antitrust Law and EC Competition
Law (Kluwer 2009), Supplement 45 of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws –
Intellectual Property (Kluwer 2008) and chapters in Anti-Cartel Enforcement Worldwide
(Cambridge University Press 2009), Citizenship Policies in the New Europe (Amsterdam
University Press 2007, revised 2nd edn 2009), Guide to European Company Laws (Sweet
& Maxwell 2008), Economic Loss Caused by Genetically Modified Crops (Springer
2008), Damage Caused by Genetically Modified Organisms (De Gruyter 2010), The
Modernisation of EU Competition Law Enforcement in the EU (Cambridge University
Press 2004), Competition Cases from the European Union (Sweet & Maxwell 2008, 2nd
edn 2010) (co-authored) and Merger Control Worldwide (Cambridge University Press
2005, revised 2008) (co-authored). He is a member of the EUI’s EUDO-Citizenship
network of experts and was a board member of the Malta Resources Authority between
2001 and 2009 and a member of Malta's Copyright Board from 1994 to 2005. He has
acted as advisor to various regulatory bodies and government ministries and companies.
He is the secretary-general of the Maltese Association for European Law (AMSDE).
Kevin Aquilina is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Media,
Communications and Technology Law and of the Department of Public Law at the
Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
London and an LL.D. from the University of Malta. Previously he served as Chief
Executive Officer at the Broadcasting Authority, Chairman of the Planning Appeals
Board and Chairman of the Maltese Press Ethics Commission. He specialises in
Development Planning Law, International Law, Environmental Law, Human Rights Law
and Administrative Law and he has authored various books and chapters in edited
volumes amongst which Development Planning Legislation: The Maltese Experience
(Malta: Mireva Publications, May 1999), A List of Maltese Maritime Legislation
Together with a Subject Index (Malta: Mid-Med Bank Ltd., June 1992), Decisions of the
Planning Appeals Board (Malta: Legal Publishing (Enterprises) Ltd., 1995 – 1998). He
has also written several articles in peer reviewed journals and reports for Maltese and
foreign institutions and is a regular contributor to the print medium. He is a regular
contributor to the Council of Europe’s IRIS – Legal Observations of the European
Audiovisual Observatory.
Noel Bartolo is Director (Small Business and Crafts) at the Commerce Division of the
Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Investment and the Director of the Malta SOLVIT
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Centre at the Commerce Division. Since Malta’s accession to the European Union, he has
been actively involved in assignments and projects originating from the European
Commission as Malta’s representative, notably acting as Malta’s primary contact point
with the European Union’s Public Administration Network in the area of Better
Regulation from 2003 to 2010. For the past four years, he has also been acting as Malta’s
representative in a working group which formulates the policy and regulates the
operations of an electronic system which facilitates the necessary administrative
cooperation between Member States in the implementation of a number of EU Directives.
Maartje de Visser is a university lecturer in European Law at Maastricht University. She
obtained her law degree cum laude from Maastricht University, the M. Jur. with
distinction from Oxford University and her doctorate cum laude from Tilburg University.
Her thesis was subsequently published as Network-based Governance in EC Law – The
Example of EC Competition and EC Communications Law by Hart Publishing in 2009.
Her research interests are in the fields of comparative constitutional law and European
law, with a focus on the application and enforcement of EU law, constitutional review,
constitutional dialogues and trans-national judicial dialogues.
Rosa M Greaves, LLB (Leeds), LLM (Exeter), Dr jur.h.c. (Oslo), Barrister (IT) is
Professor and Head of the Law School at the University of Glasgow and a Professor II at
the University of Oslo and a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon.
Previously she was The Allen & Overy Professor of European Law at the University of
Durham and Director of the Durham European Law Institute and lecturer and senior
lecturer at the University of Southampton. She has also been a Visiting Professor at
universities in Australia, US, Europe and UK. She specialises in European commercial
law in both her research and teaching interests and is the author of Transport Law of the
European Community (1991), EC Competition Law: Banking and Insurance Services
(1992), EEC Block Exemption Regulations (1994), EC Transport Law (2000) and coauthored Advocate General and EC Law (2007). She has also edited the following books:
European Company Law: A Guide to Community, EFTA and Member State Legislation
(1989), Protecting and Exploiting Biotechnological Inventions (1990) and a volume for
the second series of The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory on
Competition Law (2003). She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal
of Comparative Law, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, The Irish Jurist and Revista
de Concorrencia e Regulacao.
Rick Lawson is Professor and Head of the European Law Department of Leiden
University, the Netherlands. He specialises in European human rights law, in particular
the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Another area of interest is the
protection of human rights in the EU legal order; in 1999 he defended his PhD thesis on
the legal position of the European Communities vis-à-vis the ECHR. He is currently a
senior expert of the FRALEX Network of Human Rights Experts, set up by the EU
Fundamental Rights Agency. He has served as an expert to the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe on various occasions. He is a regular lecturer in the annual
Advanced Course on the International Protection of Human Rights in Abo (Finland) and
the Summer School of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg; in 2006
he taught the General Course of the Academy of European Law in Florence (Italy).
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Together with Henry Schermers he wrote Leading Cases of the European Court of
Human Rights.
Koen Lenaerts, Lic. iur., PhD in Law (Leuven), LL.M., M.P.A. (Harvard) is Professor of
European Law at the University of Leuven and Judge of the Court of Justice of the
European Union since 7 October 2003 and currently President of the Third Chamber.
Previously, he has been Judge of the Court of First Instance of the European
Communities (1989 – 6 October 2003) and Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law
School, the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg and the College of Europe
(Bruges). His publications include Le juge et la constitution aux États-Unis d’Amérique
et dans l’ordre juridique européen (Brussels, Bruylant, 1988), Constitutional Law of the
European Union (with Piet Van Nuffel, London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2005, 2nd edn),
Procedural Law of the European Union (with Dirk Arts and Ignace Maselis, London,
Sweet & Maxwell, 2006, 2nd edn) as well as various articles on European Union law and
comparative constitutional law in a large number of Belgian and foreign law journals. He
is a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Joseph Said Pullicino graduated B.A. (Hons) in History in 1958 and Doctor of Laws in
1961. He has been Malta’s Parliamentary Ombudsman since December 2005. He had
previously served for over eleven years, first as a judge and later as the Chief Justice, in
the Maltese law courts and on retirement he served as Chairman of the Broadcasting
Authority until he was appointed Ombudsman. He was also Malta’s representative for
eight years on the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission for Democracy through Law
and in this capacity on various occasions he was appointed rapporteur and submitted
reports and opinions, amongst which were: Guidelines on Prohibition and Dissolution of
Political Parties and Analogous Measures (1999); Internal Security Services in Europe
(1998); Opinion on the Draft Law on the Judicial System of Ukraine (1999); Opinion on
the Reform of the Judiciary in Bulgaria (1999). He also contributed a chapter on Malta in
Fundamental Rights in Europe: the European Convention on Human Rights (R
Blackburn and J Polakiewicz eds, 2001). Presently he also sits on the Board of
Management of the Association of Mediterranean Ombudsmen (AOM).
Ivan Sammut graduated BA in Law and European Studies in 1999 and Doctor of Laws
in 2002 from the University of Malta. Subsequently, he obtained an LL.M. in European
Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Magister Juris in European &
Comparative Law from the University of Malta and has just defended successfully his
Ph.D. thesis at the University of London. Since 2005 he is a full-time academic at the
University of Malta with his teaching and research interests focused in particular on EU
Internal Market Law, Justice and Home Affairs Law and European Private Law. He has
published various articles in leading local and international peer reviewed journals such
as the European Review of Private Law.
David Paul Scicluna graduated in 1975 as Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta
and was awarded by the same university a Magister Juris in European & Comparative
Law in 1996. He has been serving as judge in the Maltese Superior Courts since 1998 and
sitting on the Court of Criminal Appeal since 2002, having first been appointed
magistrate in 1984. Between 1988 and 1994 he served as Chairman of the
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Interdepartmental Commission against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and between
1994 and 1998 as Chairman of the National Commission against Drug and Alcohol
Abuse. In such capacities he participated in several international fora. He has been a
visiting lecturer in the Department of Social Studies of the University of Malta and at the
Academy of Criminal Justice and serves as external examiner within the University’s
Faculty of Laws and the European Documentation and Research Centre in respect of
Constitutional and Human Rights Law, Administrative Law and European Law. He is the
Maltese Judiciary’s contact person for the Association of Councils of State and Supreme
Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union and one of the founding members of
the Association of Judges and Magistrates of Malta. He is also a Fellow of the Salzburg
Seminar in American Studies.
Takis Tridimas is the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law and the Deputy
Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
He is also the Nancy A. Patterson Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor at
Pennsylvania State University. His interests cover European Union law, securities
regulation, international financial law and the law of international courts and tribunals.
He was senior legal adviser to the EU Presidency (2003) and Chairman of the Committee
set up by the EU Council of Ministers to draft the Treaty of Accession of 2003. He has
acted as advisor to many public and private organizations, including the European
Central Bank, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Court of
Auditors. He is the author of numerous publications including Continuity and Change in
EU Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Francis Jacobs (Arnull, Eeckhout and Tridimas eds,
Oxford, 2008) and The General Principles of EU Law (2nd edn, OUP, 2006). He is the coeditor of the Yearbook of European Law (Clarendon Press) and the general editor of the
International Financial Law series (Edward Edgar publishers).
Christopher Vajda QC, MA (Cantab), Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen (Brussels),
Bencher of Gray’s Inn is a barrister at Monckton Chambers, London. His practice covers
all aspects of EU law, judicial review, competition law, and indirect tax. He has appeared
in numerous cases before the Court of Justice and the General Court in Luxembourg as
well as before all levels of courts in the United Kingdom. His reported cases include
Alpine Investments, Emmott, Factortame, Ford, Halifax, ICI v. Colmer, Isle of Wight, the
Ladbroke cases, Saeger v Dennemeyer and Wilson. He has been a contributor to Bellamy
& Child: EC Law of Competition for 25 years.
Olivier Verheecke graduated in 1991 with a law degree from the State University of
Ghent and subsequently obtained a Master in European Law from the Institute of
European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Master in International Law
(DESS) from the Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). Since 2000 he has been Principal
Legal Advisor in the Office of the European Ombudsman. In this capacity he was
responsible for drafting the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. Previous
to joining this Office in 1997, he was Administrator (Legal Officer) in the Research and
Documentation Division of the Court of Justice of the European Union and also spent
short stints at the UNESCO in Paris and the Directorate for State Aid of the European
Commission’s DG Competition.