Joseph Weiler
About/Bio
Joseph Weiler is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law. He is University Professor and holder of the European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, where he is also Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. In addition, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of I•CON – the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
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EJIL Roll of Honour
EJIL relies on the good will of colleagues in the international law community who generously devote their time and energy to act as peer reviewers for the large number of submissions we receive. Without their efforts our Journal would not be able to maintain the excellent standards to which we strive. We thank the following colleagues for their…
My Patria is The Book: 10 Good Reads 2024
December 18, 2024
Joseph Weiler
Here, again, is my pick of ‘Good Reads’ from the books I read in 2024. I want to remind you, as I do every year, that these are not ‘book reviews’, which also explains the relative paucity of law books or books about the law. Many excellent ones have come my way this year, as in previous years,…
On My Way Out – Advice to Early Career Scholars VIII: Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps
November 13, 2024
Joseph Weiler
On my way out? It appears, you might be thinking, to be a very long and winding way, and I cannot even promise that this is the last instalment…. Still, for what it is worth, here is another of my ‘dos and don’ts’ advice on topics addressed to early career scholars on their way in, and in this…
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Popular articles by Joseph Weiler
P.S. Catalonia
June 6, 2013
Joseph Weiler
My Editorial on Catalan independence certainly put the cat among the pigeons – or perhaps more accurately, the pigeon (or dove) among the cats. Reactions were ferocious and some unpleasantly ad hominem, even by some authors who should know better. I read with care all reactions, including those removed by…
‘That Which Is Hateful to You, Do Not Do to Your Fellow! That is the Whole Torah; The Rest is Interpretation’ (from the Elder Hillel in Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a)
August 6, 2020
Joseph Weiler
I am creeping up to the age where some friends and former students have approached me with the idea of a Festschrift (Mélange, Liber Amicorum). Of course I was touched and moved by the expression of friendship and respect. But it took me no more than a few nanoseconds politely to decline, having Hillel’s version of the Golden…
Cancelling Carl Schmitt?
August 13, 2021
Joseph Weiler
Sooner or later, I have been telling myself, we, too, editors of learned journals and the like will face this issue, which has been at the centre of controversy in other areas of public life. A European colleague recently sent me a letter he received from a student-edited American law journal in which the editors asked him to…