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Joseph HH Weiler (2013)

Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler (* 1951 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is an American legal scholar . He is Professor of International and European Law at the New York University School of Law and at the College of Europe in Bruges . Weiler is one of the leading experts in European law in the USA.

Live and act

Weiler grew up in Jerusalem as the son of a Lithuanian rabbi . He first studied at the University of Sussex , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In Cambridge he earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.). Weiler studied international law at the Hague Academy for International Law in The Hague . He received his doctorate at the European University Institute (EHI) on a European law topic.

Weiler taught at EHI from 1978 to 1985, from 1985 to 1992 at the University of Michigan Law School, and from 1992 to 2001 at Harvard Law School before moving to New York in 2001. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . On 3 December 2010 he was awarded the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin , the honorary doctorate . He lives with his wife and five children in New York City , Florence and Jerusalem .

Weiler works in international and European law as well as comparative law . His focus is on the law of European integration , globalization and democracy . Weiler is one of the poet lawyers . In 1998 he presented a novella with The Steinmann Case . In it he tells of a journey that a German professor of public law is taking to the fate of his prematurely retired Habilitation father Theodor Steinmann educate. Against this background, the topic of friendship is discussed using the example of Germans of Christian and Jewish faith. In 2010, Joseph Weiler represented the government of eight states before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the Lautsi vs. Italy ( crucifix judgment ).

Publications

Monographs

• The Constitution of Europe - Do the New Clothes have an Emperor? , Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-521-58567-5 , German: The Constitution of Europe , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-12082-8
• Competencies and fundamental rights: Restrictions on tobacco advertising from the perspective of European law (together with Bruno Simma and Markus C. Zöckler), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-428-09278-9
• A Christian Europe: Explorations , translated by Franz Reimer, with a foreword by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Pustet, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-702-50493-9
• The Steinmann case , translated by Michael Cochu, Wassmann, Bremen 1998 ISBN 978-3-926182-30-2 , paperback edition Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-492-23190-9

Editorships

• The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? , Oxford Univ. Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-829874-8
• The European Court of Justice (jointly edited with Grainne de Burca), Oxford Univ. Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-924601-4

Web links

• Homepage at the NYU School of Law (English)
• JHH Weiler ( Memento from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Joseph HH Weiler in the catalog of the German National Library