Gráinne de Búrca

About

Gráinne de Búrca is the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where she also serves as the Faculty Director of the Hauser Global Law School and the Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, both on leave. Her areas of research include European and International Human Rights Law, European Union Law, International Organizations, and Transnational Law. Before joining NYU, she held tenured positions at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and was a fellow of Somerville College and a lecturer in law at Oxford University. She has also served as deputy director of the Center for European and Comparative Law at Oxford and co-director of the Academy of European Law at the EUI. Her academic background includes studying law at University College Dublin and the University of Michigan Law School, and she is admitted to the bar at King’s Inns, Dublin. De Búrca is a co-editor of the Oxford Studies in European Law series, co-author of the textbook EU Law, and serves as co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, with editorial roles in other prominent law journals. Her scholarship focuses on European Union law, international and transnational governance, human rights law, and international organizations, with notable contributions to understanding the future of human rights in a turbulent era, the functioning of the European Court…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Economics
• Development economics
• Political economy
• International trade

Selected publications

• EU Law

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 87 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. The seventh edition of <italic>EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials</italic> provides clear analysis of all aspects of European law in the post Lisbon era. This edition looks in detail at the way in which the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty have worked since the Treaty became operational, especially innovations such as t…

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• Poland and Hungary’s EU membership: On not confronting authoritarian governments

  International Journal of Constitutional Law · 2022 · 73 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract This Reflection considers why Poland’s and Hungary’s membership of the European Union has remained in many ways unaffected by widespread, serious, and documented actions on the part of those two governments which have gravely weakened the rule of law, democracy, and human rights. The Reflection does not argue for expulsion of these states, but investigates why it is that the European Union’s political institutions and actors (rather than its supranational bodies) have not been willing t…

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• 24. Citizenship of the European Union

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024-08-01 · 1 citations

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  All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter reviews EU citizenship law. It considers the rights of free movement and residence of EU citizens, political rights of citizenship, and Directive 2004/38 on the rights of free movement and residence for EU citizens and their families. The status of EU citizenship created by EU law has been criticized on va…

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• 18. The Single Market

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024-08-01

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  All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. The single market is central to the EU and is still its principal economic rationale. This chapter discusses the forms and techniques of economic integration, the limits of integration prior to 1986, and the subsequent steps taken to complete the single market. There is both a substantive and an institutional dimension…

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• 4. Competence

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024-08-01

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  All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. The existence and scope of EU competence are outlined in the Lisbon Treaty: the EU may have exclusive competence, shared competence, or competence only to take supporting, coordinating, or supplementary action. This chapter examines these three principal categories of EU competence, and their implications for the divid…

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Frequent coauthors

• Paul Craig

  72 shared

• P. Craig

  Rochester Institute of Technology

  45 shared

• Paul Craig

  43 shared

• Robert O. Keohane

  University of Oxford

  38 shared

• Charles F. Sabel

  University of Oxford

  32 shared

• Paul Craig

  31 shared

• Dimitry Kochenov

  11 shared

• Joseph H. H. Weiler

  8 shared

Education

• B.A.

  University College Dublin

• M.A.

  Oxford University

• Ph.D.

  University of Michigan Law School

Awards & honors

• Honorary Doctorate in Law (LLD), University College Dublin,…
• Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Royal Irish Acad…
• Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, British Academy…
• Podell Distinguished Teaching Award 2017, New York Universit…
• Straus Inaugural Fellow, New York University Law School, 201…

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