Bruno de Witte
Professor of European Union Law European University Institute, Florence
The National Constitutional Dimension of European Treaty Revision. Evolution and Recent Debates
Second Walter van Gerven Lecture
2004, Europa Law Publishing, Groningen, ISBN 90-76871-41-8, 25 p. (eds. W. Devroe and D. Droshout)

The Walter van Gerven Lectures are organised by the Leuven Centre for a Common Law of Europe in honour of Walter van Gerven, emeritus professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and former Advocate-General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

The objective of Leuven CCLE is to focus research efforts of the Faculty of Law of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on legal developments that are common to the whole of Europe. Each year, the Centre invites a prominent European legal scholar to share perceptions and ideas about the existence or emergence of a common law of Europe. The lectures relate to the areas of interest of van Gerven, starting out from the idea that a ius commune is already present, but that one should continuously engage in uncovering it.

Professor De Witte delivered the second Walter van Gerven Lecture. Bruno De Witte is professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he holds the joint chair in European Law of the Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Bruno De Witte obtained his law degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1978. He was awarded his PhD in Law of the EUI in 1985, and was Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the EUI until 1989 when he was appointed Professor of Law at Maastricht University. He holds his current position at the EUI since March 2000. His main research interests are institutional law of the European Union - including among others the relations between EU law and national law and between public international law and EU law - protection of fundamental rights and protection of minorities.

Proceedings of: Second Walter van Gerven Lecture "The European Constitutional Treaty and the National Constitutions" (19 December 2002).

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