Luuk van Middelaar
Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions
- Name
- Prof.dr. L.J. van Middelaar
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- l.j.van.middelaar@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5405-8636
Luuk van Middelaar is Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions at the Europa Institute of Leiden University.
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Parliamentary briefing on Ukraine report -
Luuk van Middelaar launches Brussels Institute for Geopolitics
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Luuk van Middelaar in European newspapers on Europe’s response to war in Ukraine
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Van Middelaar in Buitenhof on Europe’s position on world stage
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Prof Luuk van Middelaar guest professor at the Collège de France, Paris -
The Europa Institute organises its annual PhD Day in a new online format
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Luuk van Middelaar on the EU's response to the corona crisis
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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative regional integration awarded to Leiden University -
'Rutte could have been President of the European Council’
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Luuk van Middelaar speaks at Copenhagen conference on “EU Constitutional Imagination”
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Students learn about the EU from the inside out -
'Brexit has led to renewed trust in European cooperation' -
Closing Lecture of LLM-course on Institutional Law: Discovering diversity -
New book about front lines European politics by Luuk van Middelaar -
Strong Leiden Representation at EUSA Conference in Miami -
Three things the EU must do to survive
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The European Union and the politics of events
Courses
Luuk van Middelaar (°1973) studied History and Philosophy at the Universities of Groningen and Paris-IV Sorbonne (1991-1999) and Political Theory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1999-2000). In 1999 he published Politicide: de moord op de politiek in de Franse filosofie (Politicide: The Murder of Politics in French Philosophy) which was awarded the Prix de Paris.
He obtained his doctorate degree cum laude in 2009 at the University of Amsterdam on his work De passage naar Europa: geschiedenis van een begin (Historische Uitgeverij). This book appeared in English (The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union) (Yale University Press, 2013), French (éd. Gallimard 2012) and eight other languages. It was awarded many prizes including the Socratesprijs, the D.J. Veegensprijs from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Prix du Livre Européen and the Prix Louis Marin from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. In 2017, he published De nieuwe politiek van Europa (Historische Uitgeverij); French and English translation are in preparation.
Van Middelaar was the speechwriter and advisor of the first permanent President of the European Council, H.A. Van Rompuy (2010-2014); he was Political Secretary for the VVD Party (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) in the Dutch Lower House under J.J. van Aartsen (2004-2006) and worked for the office of European Commissioner for the Internal Market F. Bolkestein (2002-2004).
Since 2015 Van Middelaar writes a column for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He also publishes in other newspapers including Die Zeit and Le Monde.
Ancillary Positions
- Columnist NRC Handelsblad
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Member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and Chair of its Committee on European Integration (CEI)
Teaching
- Master European Law: Privatissimum
- Master European Law: Institutional Law and General Principles
- Bachelor 1 and 2: lecture on recent developments in European Law
Area of research
- European constitutional law
- Political developments EU
- Democratic legitimacy EU
Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Europees Recht
- Koenders B., Broeks J., Corbey D., Gool T. van, Middelaar L.J. van, Nijman J., Ojik B. van, Schuwer H., Zoomers A., Biermans M., Cuperus R., Dijkstra H., Graaf B. de, Haaf T. ten, Idriz N., Larik J.E., Marhold. A.A., Ong’ayo A., Osinga F.P.B., Veer L., Vries C. de, Zandee D., Zoest A. van, Jagt H. van der, Oppewal J., Visser S., Wester K., Beer P. de, Vries S. de, Postmus T. & Offenberg Q. (2024), Oekraïne – standvastigheid, weerbaarheid en perspectief. Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken-briefadvies. Den Haag: Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken.
- Koenders B., Broeks J., Corbey D., Gool T. van, Middelaar L.J. van, Nijman J., Ojik B. van, Schuwer H., Zoomers A., Biermans M., Cuperus R., Dijkstra H., Graaf B. de, Haaf T. ten, Idriz N., Larik J.E., Marhold. A.A., Ong’ayo A., Osinga F.P.B., Veer L., Vries C. de, Zandee D., Zoest A. van, Jagt H. van der, Oppewal J., Visser S., Wester K., Beer P. de, Vries S. de, Postmus T. & Offenberg Q. (2024), Ukraine – resolve, resilience and prospects for the future. Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken-briefadvies. Den Haag: Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV).
- Borger V. & Middelaar L.J. van (2024), Een alfadier als premier, De Groene Amsterdammer 148(19): 44-47.
- Koenders B., Broeks J., Middelaar L.J. van, Schuwer H., Broekhuizen L., Casteleijn L., Graaf B. de, Larik J.E., Schouten M. & Jagt H. van der (2022), De Oekraïne-oorlog als geopolitieke tijdschok. Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken-briefadvies no. 37. Den Haag: Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV).
- Middelaar L.J. van (2022), Le Réveil géopolitique de l'Europe. Conférences. Paris: Editions du Collège de France.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2021), Een Europees pandemonium: Kwetsbaarheid en politieke kracht. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2021), Pandemonium: Saving Europe [Een Europees pandemonium] (translation: Middelaar L.J. van). Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2021), Das europäische Pandämonium: Was die Pandemie über den Zustand der EU enthüllt [Een Europees pandemonium] (translation: Middelaar L.J. van & Ecke A.). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2020), A Nova Politica da Europa [De nieuwe politiek van Europa] (translation: Janssen F.P. & Middelaar L.J. van). Sao Paulo (BRA): É Realizações.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2020), To the reader [New preface to the 2020 edition of "The Passage to Europe"]. In: Middelaar L.J. van (Ed.), The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. ix-xii.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2020), Epilogue [2020 edition]. In: Middelaar L.J. van (Ed.), Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage [paperback edition]. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
- Middelaar L.J. van & Borger V. (2019), A Eurozone Congress. In: Hennette S., Piketty T., Sacriste G. & Vauchez A. (Eds.), How to Democratize Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 115-121.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2019), Alarums and Excursions. Improvising politics on the European stage [Nieuwe politiek van Europa] (translation: Waters L.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2019), The Lisbon Treaty in a Decade of Crises: The EU’s New Political Executive. In: Södersten A. (Ed.), The Lisbon Treaty Ten Years On: Success or Failure?. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies. 17-44.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2019), The Commission and the European Council. In: Dujardin V. & et al. (Eds.), The European Commission, 1986-2000. History and memories of an institution. Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union. 183-192.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2018), Quand l'Europe improvise: dix ans de crises politiques [Nieuwe politiek van Europa] (translation: Cunin D.). Le Débat. Paris: Gallimard.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2018), Seven Brexit propositions: Towards a Union that protects. In: Martill B. & Staiger U. (Eds.), Brexit and Beyond. Rethinking the Futures of Europe. London: UCL Press. 81-86.
- Middelaar L.J. van & Borger V. (2018), A Eurozone Congress, European Papers 3(1): 127-132.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2018), Brexit as the European Union’s “Machiavellian Moment”, Common Market Law Review 55(2/3): 3-28.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2018), Перехід до Європи: Як континент став союзом [The Passage to Europe: History of a Beginning] (translation: Панича О.). Kiev: Dukh i Litera.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2017), Europa em transiçao: como um Continente se transformou em União [De passage naar Europa: geschiedenis van een begin] (translation: Gerrits R.A.). Coleção abertura cultural. São Paulo: É Realizações Editora.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2017), De nieuwe politiek van Europa. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2016), The Return of Politics: The European Union after the crises in the Eurozone and Ukraine, Journal of Common Market Studies 54(3): 495–507.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2016), Besluiten nemen of normen stellen?: De EU-voorzitterschappen tussen uitvoerende en wetgevende macht in een door crises belaagde Unie, Nederlands Juristenblad 91(1): 16-27 (NJB 2016/3).
- Middelaar L.J. van (2016), Vom Kontinent zur Union. Gegenwart und Geschichte des vereinten Europa [De passage naar Europa - Geschiedenis van een begin] (translation: Jansen J.). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2016), Taking decisions or setting norms? EU Presidencies between executive and legislative power in a crisis-driven Union. In: Steunenberg B., Voermans W. & Van den Bogaert S.C.G. (Eds.), Fit for the Future? Reflections from Leiden on the Functioning of the EU. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing. 11-28.
- Middelaar L.J. van & Van Parijs P. (Eds.) (2015), Na de Storm. Hoe we de Democratie in Europa kunnen redden. Tielt: Lannoo.
- Middelaar L.J. van & Van Parijs P. (Eds.) (2015), After the Storm. How to Save Democracy in Europe. Tielt: Lannoo.
- Middelaar L.J. van (2013), The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union [De passage naar Europa: geschiedenis van een begin] (translation: Waters L.). London-New Haven: Yale University Press.
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