Jean-Victor Louis Honorary professor of the University of Brussels

Jean-Victor Louis
Honorary professor of the University of Brussels - ULB, (lecture courses on the legal order and the law
of international relations of the European Union), Honorary general counsel of the National Bank of
Belgium (1980-1998). In this capacity, he took part to the legal committee of the Committee of central
banks governors and to the Working group of legal experts of the European Monetary Institute as well
as to other legal committees in charge of preparing the change over to the euro.
Former president of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB (1980-1992).
Visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington D.C.
(September 1988). Invited professor: Universities of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), 1986-1987 and
from 1995-1996 to 2002-2003, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), 2002-2003, Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, 19921993, Bordeaux IV, 1994-1995 and 2001-2002, Robert Schuman, Strasbourg III, 1999-2000, Centro
de Estudios constitucionales, Madrid, 1988, Columbia Law School, New York, 2001-2002.
Part time Professor, European University Institute, Florence (1998-2002; February 2003-February
2004).
Hon. Degree (Docteur honoris causa) of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), 2001.
Titular of a Belgian Francqui chair, at the University of Ghent (Belgium), 2007-2008.
President (till June 2013) of the Foundation Philippe Wiener-Maurice Anspach, (for the promotion of
scientific relations between Brussels (ULB), Cambridge (UK) and Oxford (UK) Universities), general
editor of the Cahiers de Droit européen (Bruylant, Brussels), a journal published since 1965; former
Board member and acting secretary general of Trans European Political Studies Association (TEPSA),
member of the European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN), of the Monetary Commission of the
European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC), of the Committee on international monetary law
of the International Law Association (ILA) and of the scientific council of various legal periodicals.
Jean-Victor Louis has published and still publishes extensively on European Community/Union Law,
in particular on institutional questions, legal order, EMU and external relations. Recent books or
contributions to books include the following:
-- Jean-Victor Louis & Marianne Dony (ed.), Relations extérieures, Commentaire J. Mégret on the
Law of the European Community, vol. 12, 2nd ed., Brussels : Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles,
2005, 643 p.
-- Jean-Victor Louis & Thierry Ronse, L’ordre juridique de l’Union européenne, Dossiers de droit
européen, n°13, Basel, Brussels, Paris: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Bruylant, LGDJ, 2005, 458 p.
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-- Jean-Victor Louis & Stéphane Rodrigues (ed.), Les services d’intérêt économique général et
l’Union européenne, Brussels : Bruylant, 2006, 450 p.
-- Jean-Victor Louis, L’Europe. Sortir du doute, Brussels : Bruylant, 2006, 150 p.
-- Jean-Victor Louis, « National Parliaments and the Principle of Subsidiarity – Legal Options and
Practical Limits”, in Ingolf Pernice and Evgeni Tanchev (eds.), Ceci n’est pas une Constitution –
Constitutionalisation without a Constitution?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, p. 132-154; also published
in European Constitutional Law Review, 2008/3, p. 429-452.
-- Jean-Victor Louis, L’Union européenne et sa monnaie, Commentaire J. Mégret, 3rd ed., Brussels :
Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2009, 328 p.
-- Jean-Victor Louis, « Las Competencias de la Unión Europea II”, in José Ma Beneyto Perez (dir.),
Tratado de Derecho y Políticas de la Unión Europea, Tomo I, Madrid: Aranzadi, Thomson Reuters,
2009, p. 487-569.
-- Jean-Victor Louis, “L’Union économique et monétaire de Maastricht à la crise”, Revue des Affaires
européennes, 2012/1, p. 57-83 (in 4°).
-- Rosa Lastra and Jean-Victor Louis, “European and Monetary Union, History, Trends and
Perspectives”, Yearbook of European Law, on line, 27 March 2013
Various contributions published, on print or in preparation, in French, Spanish or English, on the
governance of the Euro area in time of crisis, on the external representation of the Eropean Union and
Euro area in the international monetary system, on the implementation of the Larosière report on
Financial regulation and supervision, on legal aspects of Economic and Monetary Union in the EU,
etc.
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