Loïc Azoulai
Loïc Azoulai is a legal scholar known for his work on European Union law. Since January 2024, he holds the Chair in Law and Social Europe at the European University Institute,[1] one of Europe's leading postgraduate institutions,[2] on secondment from Sciences Po.[3] In January 2025, he was appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the EUI Department of Law.[4]
Career
Azoulai studied law at the University of Nice in the 1990s,[1] and obtained his PhD at the European University Institute in 2000 under the supervision of Joël Rideau and Renaud Dehousse.[5] From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a legal secretary (référendaire) for Miguel Poiares Maduro, at the time an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.[1]
After his tenure at the Court of Justice, Azoulai became a professor of law at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a position he held until 2015. However, from 2009 to 2015 he was seconded to the European University Institute, where he held a Chair in European Law.[1] During this second period in Florence, Azoulai was a co-director of the Academy of European Law and of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation.[3]
Once his second period in Florence was completed, Azoulai returned to France, joining Sciences Po as a Professor of European Law[3] before returning to the European University Institute as a Professor of Law and Social Europe. In this capacity, his research revolves around issues related to the interactions between European law and European societies.[1] With Armin von Bogdandy, Azoulai leads the "Exploring European Society" project, which examines the notion of "European society" as a legal project.[6]
As part of his academic work, Azoulai is a member of the editorial board of the legal journals Common Market Law Review[7] and Revue trimestrielle de droit européen.[8] In 2019, he was a panel member for the ERC Advanced Grant selection procedure, within the area of [ Social Sciences and Humanities].[9]
Selected publications
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The Court of Justice and the social market economy: the emergence of an ideal and the conditions for its realization." Common Market Law Review 45.5 (2008).
- Maduro, Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa, and Loïc Azoulai, eds. The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Reviewed by Niamh Nic Shuibhne at the Yearbook of European Law.[10]
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The Retained Powers' Formula in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice: EU Law as Total Law." Eur. J. Legal Stud. 4 (2011): 178.
- Azoulai, Loïc. "“Integration through law” and us." International Journal of Constitutional Law 14.2 (2016): 449-463.
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The law of European society." Common Market Law Review 59.Special (2022).
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Loïc Azoulai appointed Chair in Law and Social Europe". European University Institute. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ Palayret, Jean-Marie (18 September 2024), "A University for Europe?", Building Europe Through Education, Building Education Through Europe (1 ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 114–133, doi:10.4324/9781003247838-7, ISBN 978-1-003-24783-8
- 1 2 3 "Azoulai, Loïc". www.sciencespo.fr. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ "Loïc Azoulai". European University Institute. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
- ↑ Azoulai, Loic (2000). Les garanties procedurales en droit communautaire : recherches sur la procédure et le bon gouvernement (Thesis thesis) (in French). European University Institute.
- ↑ "Exploring European Society". Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ "Common Market Law Review". Kluwer Law Online. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ "RTDEUR". Dalloz Revues. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ "ERC Advanced Grant Panel 2019. Members of the ERC Peer Review Panels" (PDF). www.erc.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 March 2026.
- ↑ Shuibhne, Niamh Nic (1 January 2010). "The Constitutional Uncertainty of EU Law. Review Article of Miguel Poiares Maduro and Loïc Azoulai (eds), The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Hart Publishing, 2010), 526 pages, £55, Paperback, ISBN 9781841137124". Yearbook of European Law. 29 (1): 496–512. doi:10.1093/yel/29.1.496. hdl:20.500.11820/c3ee7939-0cee-4542-a652-0228978fefa0. ISSN 0263-3264.