Fabian AMTENBRINK

Fabian Amtenbrink holds the chair of European Union law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a founding member of the Scientific Board of the Erasmus Center for Economic and Financial Governance (ECEFG), an international multidisciplinary network lead by Erasmus School of Economics and Erasmus School of Law.

Previously he worked first as an assistant professor and, thereafter, as an associate professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). After graduating from the Faculty of Law of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), he obtained a doctorate in law with distinction from the University of Groningen. Moreover, he is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Assessor).

His research focuses on constitutional and institutional aspects of European Union law and legal issues of (European) economic and monetary integration, including namely the position of the European Central Bank in the Union legal order. One particular hallmark of his research is the cooperation with economists and political economists, as becomes apparent from his co-authored publications in economics journals and in the working paper series of (inter-) national economic and financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the Dutch Central Bank, next to his numerous publications in leading international legal journals, such as the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, and the Journal of European Integration, as well as with leading international publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Hart Publishing. He serves on the editorial board of the European Law Review and the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. He is a member of the European Law Institute and of the European Group of Public Law, and an academic participant in the Research Network for Sustainable Finance.

Professor Amtenbrink has provided expert evidence and co-authored several studies for the European Parliament and on several occasions has provided expert evidence to the Dutch Parliament, including on two separate occasions as a member of an expert group appointed by Finance Committee of the Dutch Parliament (2021 and 2023) delivering two publicly-available reports offering respectively (1) an economic and legal analysis of the ECB’s position during the European sovereign debt and (2) the ECB’s position during the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter, including the development of central bank profits and losses.

Moreover, he has and still is teaching general introductions to European Union law at undergraduate, as well as specialized courses such as on internal market law, EU constitutional and institutional law, EU legal protection, and European Economic and Monetary Union at graduate and post-graduate level.