Career
He holds degrees from Sussex (BA);Cambridge (LLB and LLM) and The Hague Academy of International Law (Diploma of International Law);he earned his PhD in European Law at the European University Institute (EUI),Florence,Italy. [2] [3]
From 1978 to 1985 he was professor of law and head of the Department of Law at the European University Institute,Florence,where in 1989 he was co-founder of its Academy of European Law. He later served as Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School (1985–1992) and as Manley Hudson Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School (1992–2001). He then moved to New York University Law School. On 7 December 2012 the European University Institute's High Council approved his selection as the European University Institute's new President. He started his term on 1 September 2013 and served through 31 August 2016. He then returned to NYU.
He was Visiting Professor at,among others,University of Paris,Sciences Po,Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin,All Souls College,Oxford,University of Chicago Law School,Stanford Law School,Yale Law School,UCLA School of Law,Ortega y Gasset Institute,Madrid,University of Toronto,University of Frankfurt,University of Ljubljana,Católica Global School of Law,and University of Łódź.
One of the topics of his specific interest is the influence of (Christian) church on European integration. [4] He coined the term "Christophobia" in his book A Christian Europe:An Exploratory Essay: [5]
It is a Europe that, while celebrating the noble heritage of Enlightenment humanism, also abandons its Christophobia and neither fears nor is embarrassed by the recognition that Christianity is one of the central elements in the evolution of its unique civilization. It is, finally, a Europe that, in public discourse about its own past and future, recovers all the riches that can come from confronting one of its two principal intellectual and spiritual traditions.
The term was then popularized by George Weigel's The Cube and the Cathedral.
Weiler contributes to the legal theory of European integration, he writes on many areas of EU law (internal market, external relations, social law, and above all, institutional law). He is a particular authority on the role of the European Court of Justice. He is the Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON). He is currently a member of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute's International Council.
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