Vlad Perju is a professor and the Dean's Distinguished Scholar at md传媒国产剧 College Law School. He has published widely in the areas of constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, European integration, comparative law, and jurisprudence. At md传媒国产剧 College, Perju teaches a range of courses, including EU Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, American Constitutional Law, Modern Legal Theory, Comparative Law, The Future of Constitutional Democracy, The Past and Future of the State, and Jurisprudence for 1Ls.
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 Clough Center鈥檚 archives include many of the dozens of conferences, panels, projects, lectures and workshops that he convened under the aegis of the Center. A profile of his role as Director of the Clough Center is available .
Perju鈥檚 work on European integration was awarded the Ius Commune Prize, and his work on comparative constitutional law was selected for presentation in the Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum. His article on constitutional transplants and migrations is among the most cited recent works in comparative law. Perju鈥檚 work on constitutionalism articulates a new dimension of public law that derives from the transnational interaction of constitutional democracies. Representative publications include "" (International Journal of Constitutional Law), "" (Cardozo Law Review), "" (Global Constitutionalism), and "" (International Journal of Constitutional Law).
Perju鈥檚 work on EU law seeks to capture the radicalism of post-war European supranational constitutionalism and guide its future development. His recent scholarship on Europe includes 鈥溾�� (European Constitutional Law Review), 鈥溾�� (German Law Journal), 鈥溾�� (Texas International Law Journal), 鈥溾�� (Virginia Journal of International Law), and 鈥�.鈥� His comparative law work includes studies on disability rights: 鈥溾�� (Cornell International Law Journal); comparative federalism: 鈥溾�� (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law); adjudication: 鈥�Proportionality And Stare Decisis鈥� in Proposal for a New Structure (Cambridge University Press); and the theory of comparative law: 鈥溾�� (Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law).
The President of Romania appointed Perju to serve on a Commission on Constitution Reform. Perju remains involved in Romanian constitutional and political development through scholarship and legal commentary. The latter can be found听听and (in English) and听听(in Romanian).
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听at Harvard. Perju is serves as Chair of the Section on EU Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a member of the Good Lobby group that seeks to counter the abuse of power in Europe. He is currently on the editorial board of European Law Open (Cambridge University Press) and on the board of advisors of the journal Jus Cogens and of I-Connect 鈥� Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law.听听
Perju has law degrees from the University of Bucharest and University of Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, an L.L.M. degree听summa cum laude听from the European Academy of Legal Theory, an L.L.M. 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听and served as a fellow in the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics.
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