Inge GOVAERE

Inge Govaere is Professor of EU Law and Director of the Ghent European Law Institute (G.E.L.I.). She is also the Director of the European Legal Studies Department at the College of Europe in Bruges. 

She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy). Inge Govaere was  Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Cornell University (Ithaca NY, USA) and has been a visiting professor or given conferences and guest lectures at many universities worldwide, among others Columbia University (N.Y., USA), Yale University (C.T., USA),  Curtin University (Perth, Australia), University of Sao Paolo (Brazil),  Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II, France), University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), World Trade Institute (Bern, Switzerland), European University Institute (EUI) (Firenze, Italy), and Cambridge University (UK).

Her academic interests vary from EU external relations law to Rule of Law in the EU, Internal Market and EU intellectual property rights.

She published over 20 (a.o. co-edited) books on EU law, lately “The Division of Competences between the European Union and its Member States: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future”, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2017, paperback 2020); “The EU Better Regulation Agenda”, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2018, paperback 2020); “The Interface Between EU and International Law: Contemporary Reflections”, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2019, paperback 2020); “Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union”, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2019,  paperback 2021); “EU External Relations Post-Lisbon: The Law and Practice of Facultative Mixity”, Brill (2020); “Internal Market 2.0”, Oxford: Hart Publishing (2020 paperback 2022).

She is co-President of the Belgian Association for EU Law (BEDER) and a member of the Expert Panel assisting the EU Commission in the selection of candidates to perform the duties of members of international investment courts and tribunals and of rosters or other international courts (‘the Panel’) (Commission Decision (EU) 2021/1711 of 23 September 2021, O.J. L 339/123).

Inge Govaere was elected as  member of the  Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts/Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB) in 2016.