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Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler (born 2 September 1951) is a South African-American academic, currently serving as European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University Law School and Senior Fellow of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard. He was President of the European University Institute in Florence from 2013 until 2016. He holds a diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law. Weiler is the author of works relating to the
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character of the European Union. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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. 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
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(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 is Visiting Professor at, among others, the University of Paris, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), the
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, the
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at Heidelberg, the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin,
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Institute, Madrid, the University of Toronto, the University of Frankfurt, the University of Ljubljana an
Católica Global School of Law
One of the topics of his specific interest is the influence of (Christian) church on
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. He coined the term "
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" in his book ''A Christian Europe: An Exploratory Essay'': The term was then popularized by
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'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
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. He is the Editor-in-chief of the '' European Journal of International Law'' (EJIL) and the ''
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'' (I•CON). He is currently a member of the
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's International Council.


Court cases


Calvo-Goller libel action

Weiler was a defendant in a criminal libel action brought in the French courts by Israeli scholar Dr Karin Calvo-Goller concerning a review of her book ''The Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal Court. ICTY and ICTR Precedents'' (
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, 2006) that appeared on the Global Law Books website which Weiler edits. The review was written by Professor Thomas Weigend of the University of Cologne. Calvo-Goller contended that it was libelous. Upon complaint by Calvo-Goller, Weiler declined to remove the review from the website and Calvo-Goller subsequently filed suit. The suit was notable for the issues that it raised concerning the balance between academic freedom and the rights of those who consider themselves to have been libeled. The Dean of the Investigating Judges of Paris accepted Calvo-Goller's complaint and the District Attorney decided to bring suit against Weiler. The case was heard by the Tribunal de Grand Instance de Paris on 20 January 2011, with the verdict handed down in Paris on 3 March 2011, dismissing the lawsuit. In its verdict, the Paris Tribunal said it had no jurisdiction in the case since Calvo-Goller did not bring proof by a court-appointed clerk that the book review website was visible in French territory the day or before the day she brought the case to the dean of the investigating judges in Paris. The Paris Tribunal also declared that the words used by Weigend did not constitute ''libel'' and were within the limits of ''free critical book review speech''. The court said his words in the review were ''measured'', and the court therefore dismissed the case. The court ordered Calvo-Goller to pay 8,000 euros (around US$ 10,000) in damages to Dr Weiler to cover his expenses.


''Lautsi v. Italy''

In June 2010 Weiler intervened ''
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'' on behalf of eight governments before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case ''
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''. He was defending Italy's right to require the crucifix to be displayed in public school classrooms. Reversing the unanimous (7:0) decision of the lower Chamber, the Grand Chamber ruled by a large majority (15:2) that the display of crucifixes in Italian classrooms does not contravene the European Convention of Human Rights. In an interview Weiler stated that he was intervening on behalf of Italy not because he wanted to defend Christianity but to defend
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Accolades

* Professor Weiler is the recipient of Doctorates Honoris Causa from London University University College London, University of Sussex, the University of Macerata, the University of Navarra, the University of Ljubljana, University of Edinburgh,
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– Madrid, Humboldt University of Berlin,
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Democritus University of Thrace – Greece, University of Bucharest, the
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, the
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, Strathmore University and
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. * He is the Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU. * He is also Co-Director of LL.M.
Law in a European and Global Context
at th
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Lisbon; Honorary Professor at University College, London; Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China and Honorary Professor at
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. * He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. * He served as a Member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament co-drafting the European Parliament's Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms. * He was a member of the Groupe des Sages advising the Commission of the European Union on the 1996/97 Amsterdam Treaty. * He is a WTO Panel Member. * He is a founding Editor of the '' European Journal of International Law'', of the ''European Law Journal'' and of the ''World Trade Review''. * He is a Member of the Advisory Boards or Scientific Committees of, among others, the ''Journal of Common Market Studies'', ''Cahiers de Droit Européeen'', ''
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'', ''European Foreign Affairs Review'', the ''Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law'', the ''
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'', the '' Harvard International Review'', the '' Harvard International Law Journal'', the (Australian) Federal Law Review, the ''Journal of European Integration'', the ''European Foreign Policy Bulletin'' online and ELSA-''Selected Papers of European Law''. He is a Member of the Board of Management of the European Research Paper Archive. He is also a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ''Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies''. * He is a Council Member of the Centre for European Economic and Public Affairs, University College, Dublin, a Member of the Board of the Centre for the Law of the European Union at University College, London, Member of the International Advisory Board, Queen's University, Belfast, U.K. and at the Ortega y Gasset Institute, Madrid, Spain. He is a Member of the Advisory Council of the Interdisciplinary University Center, Herzelia, Israel. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International, Comparative Law, the
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, PennState and Member of the International Council of the Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis and a board member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht in Heidelberg, Germany. He is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre of the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Member of the International Board of the Concord Research Center at the College of Management, Israel. He is a Council Member of the Association for Hebraic Studies, AHS Institute, USA. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Review of Books.


Representative publications

*''Un'Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo'' (BUR Saggi, Milano, 2003 – translations into Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, German, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Slovenian) *''European Constitutionalism Beyond the State''. Edited with Marlene Wind ( Cambridge University Press, 2003). *''Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals.'' Edited with Ian Begg and John Peterson (Blackwell Publishing, 2003). *''The Constitution of Europe – do the New Clothes have an Emperor?'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998 – translations into Spanish, Italian, German, Slovenian, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Serbian, Portuguese and Arabic). *''The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade?'' ( Oxford University Press, 2000). *''The European Court of Justice''. Edited with Gráinne de Búrca, (Oxford University Press, 2001) and a Novella, ''Der Fall Steinmann'' (Piper 2000). *


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NYU Law Faculty Profile
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