Daniela Caruso Named New Director of the Center for the Study of Europe
Professor Daniela Caruso, from the Boston University School of Law, has been named the new Director of the BU Center for the Study of Europe. She is the third Director of the Center, which is one of the affiliate area study centers of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and follows Prof. Cathie Jo Martin (Political Science), and before that, Prof. Vivien Schmidt (International Relations) in this role.
Talking about her appointment, Prof. Caruso said that she was excited to take on this position, because “in spite of, or perhaps because, its many crises in the past few decades, Europe continues to be an extraordinary laboratory for creative experimentation — legal, political, socio-economic and artistic.” She added that, “building on the fabulous work of my predecessors, Vivien Schmidt and Cathie Jo Martin, I hope the Center will continue to serve as a meeting place for researchers eager to deepen their understanding of Europe in a global context, emphasizing both its dark legacies and its uplifting possibilities.”
Pardee School Dean Adil Najam welcomed Prof. Caruso to this position and said that “I am delighted that Daniela has agreed to take up this position at a point in time when all eyes are again turned towards Europe both in terms of its own dynamics and also the impact of those dynamics on the world. She is a world renowned scholar of European Law and Policy and follows two other stellar scholars in Professors Martin and Schmidt. This is a testimony to the intellectual importance that our Center for the Study of Europe has assumed in its relatively short life, and I have no doubts that she will take it to even greater heights.”
At the core of Prof. Caruso’s research is the relation between the laws of the market and the rise of inequality. In 2008 and 2014, Professor Caruso was visiting professor and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. In 2015, she was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the EU Commission. She teaches Contracts to first-year law students and an upper-class course on European Union Law. She also teaches a variety of law seminars and interdisciplinary courses, including a seminar on International Trade Regulation. Her article, “Non-Parties: The Negative Externalities of Regional Trade Agreements in a Private Law Perspective,” was recently published by the Harvard Journal of International Law (2018). Her pro bono work concerns persons with autism. Prof. Daniela Caruso, like Prof. Vivien Schmidt before her, was awarded the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair, a teaching post combined with an Erasmus+ grant, is offered to the most outstanding scholars of European integration studies. (More about her here).