European Integration and Law

André Klip was trained and graduated in law. He has been Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and the Transnational Aspects of Criminal Law since 2001. he is Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Penal Law. Founder and Editor of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (42 volumes since 1999). Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal on Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. In 2012 he published the 2nd edition of European Criminal Law. An Integrative Approach, Intersentia Cambridge. Throughout his career, professor Klip has been frequently involved in national and international legal practice. As of-counsel for various law firms he has been involved in litigation and advice relating to cases before the Court of Justice, the European Commission of Human Rights, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands and many first and second instance cases. He is judge at the 's-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal (criminal division).

Jan Smits holds the Chair of European Private Law at Maastricht University and is the academic director of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (MEPLI). After his study of law at the universities of Leiden and Poitiers (1986-1991), he defended his PhD at the University of Leiden (1995), developing a theory of how contractual liability can be best explained. In 1995 and 1996 he taught at the universities of Stellenbosch and Tilburg. He then was appointed at Maastricht University, first (1996-1999) as an associate professor and then (1999) to the newly created Chair of European Private Law (the first chair for this field worldwide). At Maastricht, Jan led the private law research group of the Ius Commune Research School. From 2008 to 2010, he was distinguished professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law at Tilburg University, a post he gave up in late 2010 to return to Maastricht and found the Maastricht European Private Law Institute. He held visiting positions at a number of foreign institutions, including Tulane Law School, Leuven University, the University of Liège, Louisiana State University, the Penn State Dickinson School of Law and the University of Helsinki. From 2010-2012, he held the HiiL Visiting Chair on the Internationalisation of Law and in 2013-2014 the TPR Visiting Chair at the University of Ghent. Jan Smits is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).