Delphine Costa

Member of the editorial board

Full Professor of Public Law at Aix-Marseille University (France)

Specialized in administrative law and litigation, in French and comparative law, especially at the European level, I am particularly responsible for an annual round table with fellows at my research centre. I regularly participate in research projects at European level, such as on the administrative and judicial review or about the codification of administrative law. All publications based on my research can be found at https://cra.univ-amu.fr/fr/formation/equipe-pedagogique

Luca de Lucia

Member of the Editorial Board

Professor of Italian and European Administrative Law at the University of Salerno (Italy).

Recent publications in English include: (with Paola Chirulli) Non-Judicial Remedies and EU Administration. Protection of Rights versus Preservation of Autonomy (Routledge, 2021); ‘One and Triune – Mutual Recognition and the Circulation of Goods in the EU’, REALaw 3/2020; (with Barbara Marchetti) ‘The Juridification Process in Italy and the Influence of EU Law’ in D. Sorace, L. Ferrara and I. Piazza (eds.), The Changing Administrative Law of an EU Member State (Springer, 2020); (with Maria Chiara Romano), ‘Transnational Administrative Acts in EU Environmental Law’ in M. Peeters and M. Eliantonio (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020); ‘The Shifting State of Rights Protection vis-à-vis EU Agencies: A Look at Article 58a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union’, European Law Review 4/2019. From 2014 to 2021, I was one of the coordinators of the German-Italian Group of Public Law.

Stephanie de Somer

Member of the Editorial Board

Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Part-time Assistant Professor at Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium) and Associate (practicing lawyer) at Van Olmen & Wynant (Brussels, Belgium).

My research interests concern European and comparative administrative law, with special attention to multilevel governance and cross-fertilization between legal systems. Much of my research has been funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (first as a PhD candidate, subsequently as a postdoctoral fellow). My PhD (Autonomous Public Bodies and the Law: a European Perspective) was published in 2017 by Edward Elgar in the series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law series. I have been published in various national and international journals, such as the Journal for European environmental and planning law and the European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review.

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Mariolina Eliantonio

Editor in chief

Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure at Maastricht University

Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure. Her research is focused on the enforcement of European law before national and EU courts. She does research specifically on the theme of access to court before national and European courts (with a special focus on environmental matters), on the Europeanisation process of national procedural administrative law and on the judicial review of the new modes of governance.

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Yseult Marique

Blog editor

Email: ymarique [@] essex.ac.uk

Professor at the University of Essex (UK), chargée de cours invitée at UC Louvain (Belgium) and Research Associate at the Centre de droit public (ULB – Brussels).

My research is anchored in comparative public law in Europe (especially Belgium, England, France, Germany, and Nordic countries), with a keen interest in history and political philosophy. It has been generously supported by the DAAD, the British Academy, the Society of Legal Scholars and Insol International. My papers and chapters have been published in the Cambridge International Law Journal, European Public Law, Computer Law and Security Review, Privacy in Germany, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar, and Springer. My publications include Public-Private Partnerships and the Law – Regulation, Institutions and Community (Edward Elgar 2014) and Manuel de droit comparé des administrations européennes (Larcier 2019 – as a co-author). I am currently co-editing a Traité de droit administratif transnational (Bruylant forthcoming). I was the treasurer of the British Association of Comparative Law (2014-2021), where I remain in the position of social media/communication officer. I am an elected associate member of the International Association of Comparative Law (2021-). Please do read a Q&A on my take on comparative law by clicking here.

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Danai Petropoulou Ionescu

Managing editor

Email: realaw[@]maastrichtuniversity.nl

PhD Candidate in EU Administrative Law and Governance, Department of Public Law and Department of Political Science, Maastricht University 

Her work focuses on EU regulatory governance, administrative law, and the intersections between EU politics and EU law. More specifically, her research focuses on aspects of good governance at various levels of the EU regulatory system – e.g. at an institutional or an organisation context – both in theory and practice. My PhD research centres around the legitimacy of soft governance practices at the EU level, for instance in terms of participation and transparency. Being positioned between administrative law and political science, Danai’s work takes primarily interdisciplinary perspectives and pays special attention to the empirical exploration of the EU administration. 

Additionally, through policy, advocacy, and research, Danai works on supporting and promoting the value of diversity and inclusivity in teaching, research, and administrative practices in academia. 

Sacha Prechal

Founding member

Sacha Prechal has been a judge at the European Court of Justice since 2010. In that capacity, she is currently president of the Third Chamber. She studied law at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands, 1977-83). She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands, 1995). She started her professional career as Lecturer in the Law Faculty of the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands, 1983-87). Between 1987 and 1991, she was Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities and then again Lecturer at the Europa Institute of the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam (1991-95). In 1995, she was appointed Professor of European Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Tilburg, and in 2003 Professor of European Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Utrecht. She still is an Honorary Professor of European Law at the latter Law Faculty.

She is a member of the editorial advisory board of several national and international legal journals, respectively, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of numerous publications on EU law, in particular on judicial protection in the EU, on various aspects of the relationship between EU law and national law, on general principles/fundamental rights, on EU anti-discrimination law, and on problems related to EU directives.

Together with Jan Jans and Rob Widdershoven, she is one of the founding mothers/fathers of REALaw.

Jane Reichel

Member of the editorial board

Professor of Administrative Law at the Stockholm University (Sweden)

Jane Reichel is Dean and professor in administrative law at the faculty of law, Stockholm University, Sweden. She has both her master’s degree in law (1997) and her doctoral degree in European law (2006) from Stockholm University. She worked at the faculty of law, Uppsala university, between 2009-2018, and then returned to Stockholm University. She is one of three editors of the Swedish administrative law review, Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift.

Her research focuses on what globalization in general and Europeanisation in particular mean for the administration, its role within the state and in relation to the EU and other organizations. Areas of interest include networks of authorities acting beyond the state, how they are governed and controlled, how administrative law ideals of efficient, transparent and legally secure decision-making procedures are achieved, as well as effects of globalization and Europeanisation on national administrative law. Other areas of interests are questions relating to data protection, good administration and good governance in relation to digitalization and the development of AI.

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Annalisa Volpato

Email: realaw [@] rug.nl

I am  a tenured assistant professor at Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). I studied law at the University of Padova (Italy), at the Université de Louvain (Belgium), and at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). In 2018, I obtained a double PhD in EU law at Maastricht University and the University of Padova (Italy), with a thesis on the delegation of powers to EU institutions and agencies. Until Spring 2023, I worked at Maastricht University teaching and researching European administrative law.

My research interests cover the institutional and administrative aspects of EU law, particularly the democratic control over the decision-making powers of EU institutions and bodies. This includes the judicial accountability of these bodies, the involvement of civil society in regulation, and European and international standardization. At the same time, I maintain a keen interest in the regulation of the EU agri-food sector – which I worked on during a traineeship at the European Commission – and on the governance of EU funds.

Since April 2020, I have been the Managing Editor of the Review of European Administrative Law. I am entrusted with the day-to-day management of the Review. Together with the General Editors, I organise the peer review process for new submissions and special issues of the journal by selecting the most suitable peer-reviewers and by corresponding with them and the authors. I take care of the communication with the Editorial Board – for instance by organizing the Editorial Board meetings – and with the public through our social networks. I also work closely together with our publisher to ensure the regular publication of our issues.

Ferdinand Wollenschläger

Member of the Editiorial Board

Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public Economic Law at Augsburg University (Germany)

Ferdinand Wollenschläger (* 1976) studied law at Munich and Oxford (Brasenose College) Universities and is a fully qualified German lawyer. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. from Munich University with a dissertation entitled “Grundfreiheit ohne Markt. Die Herausbildung der Unionsbürgerschaft im unionsrechtlichen Freizügigkeitsregime“ (A New Fundamental Freedom beyond Market Integration. The Emergence of European Union Citizenship in the regime of the free movement of persons). In 2010, Ferdinand Wollenschläger completed his “Habilitation” (second Ph.D.) on “Verteilungsverfahren” (Distributing Scarce Goods as a Task of the Administration: Parameters of Constitutional and European Union Law, Administrative Procedures in Specific Areas & the Emergence of a New Type of Administrative Procedure), again at the Faculty of Law of Munich University. He was research scholar at the Jean Monnet Center for Regional and International Economic Law and Justice at New York University, School of Law, and visiting professor at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Law. Ferdinand Wollenschläger serves as co-speaker of the German-Italian conference of Public Lawyers and is member of the European Group of Public Law. Ferdinand Wollenschläger has advised various European and national institutions on constitutional, administrative and EU law issues.

Important contributions to European and comparative administrative law include publications on the relationship of administrative and private law, on the Europeanisation and constitutionalisation of administrative law, on registers as an instrument of administration, on public procurement law, licensing, interim procedures, on pandemic- and health law-related issues, police law, public undertakings, transparency and on the allocation of scarce goods.

A full profile including publications and presentations may be found here.