Prof. Mark Dawson, PhD

Professor of European Law and Governance

Mark Dawson teaches courses on European law and governance at the Hertie School of Governance. He holds degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen as well as a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Global Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin and a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before joining the Hertie School, Mark Dawson taught at Maastricht University; he remains a scholar within the Maastricht Centre for European Law. His research has focused on the relationship in the EU between law and policy-making – he recently published a book on ‘New Governance and the Transformation of European Law’ (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and is preparing with two colleagues a book on Judicial Activism at the European Court of Justice (Edward Elgar, 2012). He is currently researching on EU economic governance; on the enforcement of fundamental rights in the EU; and on the ‘constitutional dialogue’ between the European Court of Justice and policy-makers