Mariolina Eliantonio

Editor in Chief

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

m.eliantonio[at]maastrichtuniversity.nl

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.

Danai Petropoulou Ionescu

Managing Editor

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

realaw[at]maastrichtuniversity.nl

Danai’s 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. Her 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. 

Rob Widdershoven

Member of the Editiorial Board & Founding member

Professor of European Administrative Law at Utrecht University (the Netherlands, 1997). Advocate General of Administrative Law (2013). Member of the Dutch Council of State, the Trade and Industry Appeals Court, and the Central Appeals Court.

r.widdershoven[at]uu.nl

Rob has been working in academia since 1983. In 1997, he was appointed as Professor of European Administrative Law at the University of Utrecht. His research focusses on the interaction between EU law and Administrative Law of the EU Member States in the areas of Law Enforcement, Administrative Justice, General Principles of Law, Fundamental Rights, and State Liability. It increasingly also includes research questions on Composite and Transnational Decision-Making and Enforcement. He has published about 200 articles, books and reports on these topics. He is a co-author of the book Europeanisation of Public law (Europa Law Publishing 2015). Rob has received several prizes, amongst them the main publication prize of the Dutch Association of Administrative Law. He is the co-founder of Review of European Administrative Law (REALaw) and is still a member of its Board of Editors. Rob is also a member of the editorial board of several Dutch journals, amongst them Overheid & Aansprakelijkheid (Government & Liability) and JBplus (Journal of Administrative Case Law).

Sacha Prechal

Member of the Editiorial Board & Founding member

Professor of European Law at Utrecht University (Netherlands). Former Judge at the European Court of Justice (2010-2024).

a.prechal[at]uu.nl

Sacha Prechal was a judge at the European Court of Justice between 2010-2024. In that capacity, she was 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.

Ferdinand Wollenschläger

Member of the Editiorial Board

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

ferdinand.wollenschlaeger[at]jura.uni-augsburg.de

Ferdinand Wollenschläger 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.

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, Delphine is particularly responsible for an annual round table with fellows at my research centre. She 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 her research can be found at https://cra.univ-amu.fr/fr/formation/equipe-pedagogique

Jane Reichel

Member of the editorial board

Professor of Administrative Law at the Stockholm University (Sweden)

jane.reichel[at]juridicum.su.se

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.