Juan Ignacio Signes de Mesa is a Legal Secretary (Référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) since 2007, having worked on cases across the breadth of EU law with an emphasis on EU sanctions and restrictive measures-EFSP, international trade, competition law and state aid, anti-dumping, intellectual property and banking and financial supervision.
He is ‘Visiting Professor’ at the College of Europe (Bruges) and ‘Senior Fellow’ and scientific coordinator of executive education at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute (Florence).
In Spain, he is a professor at Universidad Carlos III and Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and the director of the Academia de Práctica Jurídica Europea (www.apje.eu) and other academic initiatives related to the CJEU and its case-law at Universidad del País Vasco (San Sebastian) and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander).
He holds an LL.B. and a Ph.D. degrees from Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and LL.M. degrees from the College of Europe and the Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA). He is also a member of the New York and the Madrid Bars (currently, non-active).
He has written extensively on EU law, including books on Competition Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024, SPA), Droit procedural des aides d’État (Larcier, 2019 FR) and Code of European Legal Practice (Iustel, 2017, SPA). He is also the editor of European Procedural Law (Iustel, 2024, 2nd edition, SPA), prefaced by Prof. K. Lenaerts, President of the CJEU.
Since 2016, he holds the title of ‘Académico correspondiente’ of the Spanish Royal Academy of Law and Jurisprudence.