European Conference
March 24^th and 25^th 2023 in Cambridge, MA

Professor of Law at Boston College Law School

Vlad Perju is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. He has published widely in the areas of constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, European Union law, comparative law and jurisprudence. Some of his recent work on EU constitutionalism includes The Politics of Form in European Constitutionalism (European Constitutional Law Review), Against Bidimensional Supremacy in EU Constitutionalism (German Law Journal), Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government (International Journal of Constitutional Law), Dual Sovereignty in the European Union? A Critique of Habermas’s Defense of the Nation-State (Texas International Law Journal), Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice (Virginia Journal of International Law), and Uses and Misuses of Human Rights in European Constitutionalism. For a decade, until 2022, Perju served as Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. During that time, the Center became one of the leading institutions for the study of constitutional democracy in world. The President of Romania appointed Professor Perju to serve on a Commission on Constitution Reform. Perju was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, taught as an External Professor at the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels, Belgium), was invited to join LUISS (Rome) as visiting professor and has had multiple affiliations with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. He serves on the editorial board of European Law Open (Cambridge University Press) and on the board of advisors of the journal Jus Cogens and of the I-Connect – Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law. Perju has law degrees from the University of Bucharest and University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, an L.L.M. degree summa cum laude from the European Academy of Legal Theory, an LLM degree from Harvard Law School (degree waived) and a doctorate (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he was awarded a Byse Fellowship, a Safra Fellowship in Ethics at the Kennedy School of Government and served as a fellow in Amartya Sen’s Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics.