Joseph H. H. Weiler

Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler ( b. 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is Professor of International and European Law at the New York University School of Law and the College of Europe in Bruges.

Life

Hamlet grew up as the son of a Lithuanian rabbi in Jerusalem. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). At Cambridge, he received his Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and Master of Laws ( LL.M.). At the Hague Academy of International Law in The Hague Weiler studied international law. He was Doctorate at the European University Institute (EUI ) with a European legal issue.

Weiler taught from 1978 to 1985 at the EHI from 1985 to 1992 at the University of Michigan Law School and from 1992 to 2001 at the Harvard Law School before moving to New York in 2001.

He lives with his wife and five children in New York City, Florence and Jerusalem.

On 3 December 2010 him from the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University awarded an honorary doctorate from Berlin.

Work

Weiler works in international and European law and comparative law. His focus is in the law of the European integration, globalization and democracy.

Hamlet is one of the poets lawyers. He presented in 1998 with The Fall Steinmann an amendment. In it he tells of a journey that takes a German professor of public law, to investigate the fate of his prematurely retired Habilitation father Theodor Steinmann. Against this background it comes to the topic of friendship with the example of the German Christian and Jewish faith.

Court hearings

In 2010, Joseph Weiler represented the government of eight states before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Lautsi vs. Italy ( crucifix judgment ).

Publications

  • Joseph H.H. Weiler: The Constitution of Europe - Do the New Clothes have an Emperor, Cambridge Univ? . Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-521-58567-5, German: The Constitution of Europe, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-12082-8
  • Joseph H.H. Weiler: skills and fundamental rights: restrictions on tobacco advertising from the perspective of European law (jointly with Bruno Simma and Markus C. Zöckler ), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-428-09278-9
  • Joseph H.H. Weiler ( ed.): The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-829874-8
  • Joseph H.H. Weiler ( ed.): The European Court of Justice ( published jointly with Grainne de Burca ), Oxford Univ. Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-924601-4
  • Joseph H.H. Hamlet: A Christian Europe: explorations, translated by Franz Reimer, with a foreword by Ernst- Wolfgang Böckenförde, Pustet, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-702-50493-9
  • Joseph H.H. Weiler: The case Steinmann, translated by Michael Cochu, Wassmann, Bremen 1998 ISBN 978-3-926182-30-2, paperback edition Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-492-23190-9
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