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Prof Laurence Gormley

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Work Department

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Civil
• Commercial
• Taxation

Position

Professor Gormley is Emeritus Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Groningen in Netherlands. His expertise is in: Free Movement; Internal Market; Public Procurement; European Tax Law; Customs Law; Trade Law; Judicial Protection; Institutional and Governance Questions. Laurence Gormley was appointed to the Chair of European Law in September 1990. He also holds the Jean Monnet Chair which was awarded to the Faculty in 1995, and he leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Groningen, recognised by the European Commission in 1999. He graduated from the University of Oxford in Modern History and Modern Languages in 1975 (M.A., 1979); took a M.Sc. in European Studies at the London School of Economics in 1976, and he was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Middle Temple in 1978. In 1978 he received the Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Award from the Middle Temple, and held a Rotary Foundation Fellowship at the Europa Institute at Utrecht. He took his doctorate in 1985 at Utrecht, with a dissertation on ‘Prohibiting Restrictions on Trade within the EEC’. After completing pupillage in 1979, and then being a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and a door tenant in chambers in London, he worked as an official of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels from 1983 to 1990 (dealing with competition; free movement of goods, and public procurement). Professor Gormley’s principal publications have been in free movement of goods; customs law; public procurement; taxation, and the internal market, although he has also published a number of articles on the judicial architecture of the EU and judicial review. He edited and revised the 2nd. (1989) and 3rd. (1998) editions of Kapteyn VerLoren van Themaat’s Introduction to the Law of the European Communities and wrote the contributions on Customs Union and the Free Movement of Goods and on Taxation in Vol. 52 of Halsbury’s Laws of England 4th. ed. (1986).

Career

Call 1978. Legal articles: references for a preliminary Ruling: Article 234 EC from the United Kingdom viewpoint (2002) 66 RabelsZ 459—469; Continuity and Change in EU Law (Essays for Sir Francis Jacobs) (Oxford University Press 2008) 189-204; Report for The Netherlands in Lang et al. (eds.) EU Taxes (Linde, 2008) 351-396 (with Prof Dr I J J Burgers, Groningen); Judicial Review: Advice for the Deaf? (2006) 29 Fordh. Int’l LJ 665—689; Silver Threads Among the Gold …50 Years of the Free Movement of Goods (2008) 31 Fordh. Int’l LJ 1637—1691; Free Movement of Goods within the EU: Some Issues and an Irish Perspective (2010) XLVI The Irish Jurist 74-95. Recent Books: EU Taxation Law (2005) (Oxford University Press); EU Law of Free Movement of Goods and Customs Union (2009) (Oxford University Press). Current Positions: Professor, College of Europe, Bruges; Cambridge Studies in European Law & Policy, Series Joint Editor; European Law Review, Editorial Board Member; European Business Law Review, Editorial Board Member; European Journal of Consumer Law, Editorial Board Member; Journal de Droit Européen, Editorial Board Member; Public Procurement Law Review, Editorial Board Member; The Irish Jurist, Advisor Board Member; Irish Journal of European Law, Advisor Board Member; Liverpool Law Review, Advisor Board Member; Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham, Advisory Board Member; Dutch Association for Procurement Law, Advisory Council Member; European Law Faculties Association, Board Member; European Associaton of Tax Law Professors, Member; European Law Institute, Member; IT-BC BV & IT Business Controls Ltd, Director. Recent Positions: Professor, College of Europe, Natolin; Generale Bank Professor, University of Leuven; Visiting Professor of EC Law, University College, London; Visiting Professor of EC Law, University of Bremen; Visiting Professor of EC Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Stiftungsprofessor für Europarecht, Universität Bonn; Visiting Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Visiting Fellow of Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow at CIEL, University of Sheffield. He has on myriad occasions given guest lectures at universities in Europe and in the United States. He has for various periods been an external examiner in various British and Irish universities. He chaired the Assessment Committee for Advanced Master courses in Law at the Flemish Universities 2006—2007. From 1995-2005 he was Chairman of the Dutch Association for Procurement Law (he is now an Honorary Member and a member of the Advisory Council). From 2004—206 he was a member of the Advisory Group on Market and Regulation of the Dutch Health Supervisory Authority (in formation).