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Professor Fabian Amtenbrink

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Profile

Fabian Amtenbrink is Vice Dean and Professor of European Union Law at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 2009 he is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, where he teaches the course ‘EMU, Financial Market Regulation and Supervision’. Moreover, he is the Scientific Director of the European Research Centre for Economic and Financial Governance, a joint international research network financed as part of the strategic alliance of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 2017, he is the Lead Researcher/Supervisor & Director of Training for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network on Transatlantic Trade and Investment (Marie-Curie EUTIP-ITN).

His research and international publications focus on constitutional and institutional aspects of European Union law, as well as legal issues of (European) economic and monetary integration. He has co-authored studies for the European Parliament (Role of the EU in G20, Legal impact of Brexit) and has provided expert evidence in the European Parliament and the Dutch Parliament. In 2014, he was the General Rapporteur on Economic and Monetary Union at the XXVI FIDE congress in Copenhagen.

Professor Amtenbrink, who studied law at the Freie Universität of Berlin (Germany) and is fully qualified in Germany to practice law, holds a Dutch doctorate in law (PhD). He serves on the editorial board of the European Law Review and the Netherlands Yearbook for International Law, as well as being a principle editor of the Nijhoff Studies in EU Law Series (Brill).

At Erasmus University Rotterdam, he teaches general and specialized course in the area of European Union law at the bachelor, master and post-doctoral level.

In his position of Vice Dean, Professor Amtenbrink is primarily in charge of developing and overseeing the implementation of the research strategy of the Erasmus School of Law, as well as internationalization.

Research

Publications

Fabian Amtenbrink’s recent publications include:

  • Amtenbrink, R. Repasi, ‘Compliance and Enforcement in Economic Policy Coordination in EMU’, in D. Kochenov, A. Jakab (eds.), The Enforcement of EU Law and Values. Ensuring Member State's Compliance (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 145-181;
  • Heine, F. Amtenbrink, ‘Regulating Credit Rating Agencies in the European Union. Lesson from the Behavioural Science’, Dovenschmidt Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 2-15;
  • Nowak, F. Amtenbrink, M.L.M. Hertogh, M.H. Wissink, National Judges as European Union Judges. Knowledge, Experience and Attitudes of Lower Court Judges in Germany and the Netherlands (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing), 160pp;
  • Amtenbrink, K. van Duin, ‘The European Central Bank Before the European Parliament: Theory and Practice After 10 Years of Monetary Dialogue’, European Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 561-583;
  • Amtenbrink, ‘The Multidimensional Constitutional Legal Order of the European Union - A Successful Case of Cosmopolitan Constitution-Building?’ Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 39, pp. 3-68; and
  • Amtenbrink, Continuation or Reorientation: What Future for European Integration? Erasmus Law Lectures 9 (The Hague: Boom Juridische uitgevers), 56pp.
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