Loïc Azoulai
French scholar of European Union Law
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Loïc Azoulai is a legal scholar known for his work on European Union law. Since January 2024, he holds the Chair in Law and Social Europe at the European University Institute,[1] one of Europe's leading postgraduate institutions,[2] on secondment from Sciences Po.[3] In January 2025, he was appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the EUI Department of Law.[4]
Career
Azoulai studied law at the University of Nice in the 1990s,[1] and obtained his PhD at the European University Institute in 2000 under the supervision of Joël Rideau and Renaud Dehousse.[5] From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a legal secretary (référendaire) for Miguel Poiares Maduro, at the time an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.[1]
After his tenure at the Court of Justice, Azoulai became a professor of law at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a position he held until 2015. However, from 2009 to 2015 he was seconded to the European University Institute, where he held a Chair in European Law.[1] During this second period in Florence, Azoulai was a co-director of the Academy of European Law and of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation.[3]
Once his second period in Florence was completed, Azoulai returned to France, joining Sciences Po as a Professor of European Law[3] before returning to the European University Institute as a Professor of Law and Social Europe. In this capacity, his research revolves around issues related to the interactions between European law and European societies.[1] With Armin von Bogdandy, Azoulai leads the "Exploring European Society" project, which examines the notion of "European society" as a legal project.[6]
As part of his academic work, Azoulai is a member of the editorial board of the legal journals Common Market Law Review[7] and Revue trimestrielle de droit européen.[8] In 2019, he was a panel member for the ERC Advanced Grant selection procedure, within the area of [ Social Sciences and Humanities].[9]
Selected publications
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The Court of Justice and the social market economy: the emergence of an ideal and the conditions for its realization." Common Market Law Review 45.5 (2008).
- Maduro, Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa, and Loïc Azoulai, eds. The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Reviewed by Niamh Nic Shuibhne at the Yearbook of European Law.[10]
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The Retained Powers' Formula in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice: EU Law as Total Law." Eur. J. Legal Stud. 4 (2011): 178.
- Azoulai, Loïc. "“Integration through law” and us." International Journal of Constitutional Law 14.2 (2016): 449-463.
- Azoulai, Loïc. "The law of European society." Common Market Law Review 59.Special (2022).