The teaching staff in the IES’ LLM programme is a unique mixture of renowned EU scholars and top level EU practitioners that combined academic rigor with the latest practical insights and cultural diversity.

Directors

• Prof. H. KALIMO, Programme Director
• Prof. T. JORIS, Programme Co-Director

Professors

• Prof. D. ARTS
• Prof. Y. DEVUYST
• Prof. J. FAULL
• Prof. E. FRANCKX
• Prof. R. GOSALBO BONO
• Prof. S. GUTWIRTH
• Prof. P. DE HERT
• Prof. F. HOFFMEISTER
• Prof. T. JORIS
• Prof. H. KALIMO
• Prof. S. KOUVO
• Prof. B. MARTENCZUK
• Prof. A. NUYTS
• Prof. S. OBERTHÜR
• Prof. S. VAN THIEL
• Prof. A. VOICULESCU

Secretariat

• Mrs Marleen VAN IMPE

Board

The board of the program consists of the programme directors and professors as well as a student representative. The board governs the content and practical matters of the programme.

PILC Professors emeritus

• Bart DE SCHUTTER, Founding PILC Director, President of the VUB Institute for European Studies, former VUB Rector and former Dean of the Law Faculty
• Robert FISCHER, Legal Adviser at the European Commission (retired)
• Edward Patrick LATHAM, European Commission official (retired)
• Bernhard SCHLOH, Legal Adviser at the Council of the European Union (retired)
• Neri SYBESMA-KNOL, Former full-time Professor of Law VUB, former Director of the Centre for United Nations law VUB
• Gabriel WILNER, Associate Dean, Executive Director of the Dean Rusk Center, and Charles H. Kirbo Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law (USA) and Director of the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union

Case study tutors

• Bertold BÄR-BOUYSSIÈRE, DLA Piper
• Etienne CLAES, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae
• Maurits DOLMANS, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Rupert ELDERKIN, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Porter ELLIOTT, Van Bael & Bellis
• Christoph FEDDERSEN, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Kent KARLSSON, Linklaters
• Jonas KOPONEN, Linklaters
• Anne MacGREGOR, mLex
• Robert MURRAY, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
• Robert O’DONOGHUE, Brick Court Chambers
• Mike PULLEN, DLA Piper
• Steven SPINKS, Sidley Austin LLP
• Bertold THEEUWES, Lorenz
• Filip TUYTSCHAEVER, Contrast. European & Business Law

Frequent guest lecturers

• Petr BLIZKOVSKY, Director at the Council of the European Union
• Juha KARHU, Professor of Law at the University of Lapland
• Olga KOPICZKO, Legal Officer at the Directorate General for Environment at the European Commission
• Robert MURRAY, European competition lawyer at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
• Avi SCHNEEBALG, Attorney-at-law and commercial mediator
• Peter SCHONEWILLE, Legal Officer at the Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission
• Lode VAN DEN HENDE, European and WTO lawyer at Herbert Smith
• Edwin VERMULST, International trade lawyer at Vermulst, Verhaege & Graafsma, Faculty member of the World Trade Institute in Berne, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and of Law and Economics in International Trade.