Professor Piet Eeckhout

Piet Eeckhout
Piet is Professor of European Law at King’s College London since 1998, and directs the Centre of European Law. Before joining King’s he held academic positions at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels (Belgium), and worked in the Chambers of Advocate General Jacobs, European Court of Justice (1994-1998). 
 
His academic interests and activities cover many different areas of EU law, including external relations, the internal market, state aid, judicial protection, the constitutionalization process, and fundamental rights protection. He is also very active in the field of international economic law, in particular WTO law. Piet has particular expertise in the interface between EU law and international law.
 
He is editor of the Yearbook of European Law (Oxford University Press), with Takis Tridimas who also practises at Matrix. He has also been appointed editor of the Oxford EU Law Library, a series of monographs on different areas of EU law, together with David Anderson QC. 
 
Piet has been involved in major litigation in the fields of EU law and international law, including Chiquita v Commission (2005, CFI), Kadi (ECJ, 2008), and AES v Hungary (expert report, ICSID 2010).

Piet's publications include:
  • External Relations of the European Union – Legal and Constitutional Foundations (Oxford EC Law Library, Oxford University Press 2004 - 2nd edition forthcoming)
  • With A Biondi and J Flynn (eds), The Law of State Aid in the European Union (Oxford University Press 2004)
  • The European Internal Market and International Trade – A Legal Analysis (Oxford University Press 1994)
  • With A Arnull and T Tridimas (eds), Continuity and Change in EU Law - Essays in Honour of Sir Francis Jacobs (Oxford University Press 2008)