Maria Weimer is assistant professor in EU law at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). As such she takes part in the interdisciplinary research project "Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking" carried out at the UvA Faculty of Law. She is also an affiliated fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS Europe). Before joining ACELG Maria Weimer worked as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of International and European Law of Maastricht University (2011-2013). She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Her PhD thesis on "Constitutionalising EU administrative risk governance" is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2015.

Maria Weimer studied law in France (Université d’Aix-Marseille), Germany (Hamburg University), and Italy (European University Institute). In Germany she passed the First State Examination in Law with honors (Prädikat) among the top 5 % of her year (2003). After graduation, she worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Department for Public Law of Hamburg University (2003-2005). She also holds a Master of Research in Law from the European University Institute (2006). In 2008/2009 she accomplished a traineeship at the Legal Service of the European Commission.

In the past Maria Weimer participated in collaborative EU projects funded under the 7^th Framework Programme, such as RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) and INPROFOOD (Towards Inclusive Research Programming for Sustainable Food Innovations). She also worked as a research assistant at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) at Bremen University (2009-2011).

Maria Weimer’s key research areas are EU risk regulation & governance (environmental & food safety regulation), EU administrative law, and EU constitutionalism. In addition, she carries out research in the field of WTO law and the transnational regulation of trade, environment and food safety.

Her research analyzes the interplay between law, science and politics in EU risk regulation with a particular focus on new technologies and technological risks. Her recent work addressed EU administrative decision-making on risk exploring questions such as how do concepts of EU administrative legitimacy influence, and are in turn being influenced by the functional needs and dynamics of EU risk regulation in the fields of public health and environmental safety?; what role do EU administrative actors, scientific experts, stakeholders and courts play in this regard?; Which models of risk governance could address both the legitimacy needs of the EU public administration and the need for effective risk regulation in the EU?

At the WTO level, Maria's research focuses on the role of WTO law in domestic and transnational regulation of environmental and food safety standards. Maria Weimer recently completed a personal research project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) titled “Defending European values in the World Trade Organisation? Exploring the relationship between EU regulation, WTO law, and the social disintegration of markets.”

In spring 2015 Maria Weimer is co-organising an international workshop on "Regulating Risks in the EU - the co-production of expert and executive power" funded by ACELG, ACCESS Europe and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The outcome of this workshop will be published as an edited volume with Hart Publishing in 2016.

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2015

• Constitutionalising EU administrative risk governance - a case study of GMO authorisations (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
• Regulating Risks in the European Union - The Co-production of Expert and Executive Power, with Anniek de Ruijter (eds) (forthcoming with Hart Publishing)
• "Risk Regulation and Deliberation in EU Administrative Governance", European Law Journal (accepted for publication)
• “The Role of the EU in Transnational Regulation of Food Safety: Extending Experimentalist Governance?”, with Ellen Vos, in Jonathan Zeitlin (ed), The Role of the EU in Transnational Regulation: Extending Experimentalist Governance? (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
• “The Court of Justice” with Deirdre Curtin in F. Amtenbrink, D. Curtin, P.J. Kuijper, A. McDonnell and B. De Witte (eds), The Law of the European Union, fifth edition (The Hague: Kluwer, forthcoming)
• "The Role of the WTO in transnational governance - The US-Tuna Dispute and the Governance of Dolphin-Safe Tuna" in Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), Experimentalist Regimes in Transnational Governance (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
• “Differentiated integration or uniform regime? Searching for the soul of the internal market with a view to national derogations” with Ellen Vos, in B. DeWitte et al (eds), Between Flexibility and Disintegration. The State of the EU Law Today (forthcoming with Intersentia)

2014

• “Risk regulation, GMOs, and the challenges to deliberation in EU governance - politicisation and scientification as co-producing trends” in C. Joerges & C. Glinski (eds), The European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance (Hart Publishing, 2014) 
• “The EU adventures of ‘Herculex’ – Report on the EU authorization of the genetically modified maize 1507”, with Gaia Pisani, European Journal of Risk Regulation Issue 2/201

2013        

• “A Crisis of Executive Managerialism in the European Union – No Alternative?”, co-authored with Christian Joerges, in Joanne Scott, Gràinne De Bùrca & Claire Kilpatrick (eds), Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance. Liber Amicorum for David Trubek (Hart Publishing 2013)
• “EU Risk Governance of ‘Cloned Food’ – Regulatory Uncertainty Between Trade and Non-Trade” In: Marjolein Van Asselt, Esther Versluis and Ellen Vos (eds) Science and Politics in EU Risk Governance: Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives (Taylor & Francis/Routledge)
• “ ‘It’s the Politics, Stupid.’ Or is Reality More Complex? “, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Issue 2/2013, pp. 297

2012       

• “The Right to Adopt Post-Market Restrictions of Genetically Modified Crops in the EU – A shift from De-Centralised Multi-Level to Centralised Governance in the Case of GM Foods”, Case note on Court of Justice of the European Union, Joined Cases C-58/10 to C-68/10 Monsanto SAS and Others, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Issue 3/2012, pp. 445

2011               

• “Administrative Constitutionalism and European Conflicts Law” in: Christian Joerges and Tommi Ralli (eds) After Globalisation – New Patters of Conflicts, RECON Report No 15 (Arena, Oslo)

2010               

• “Applying Precaution in EU Authorization of Genetically Modified Products – Challenges and Suggestions for Reform,” Vol 16 (5) European Law Journal (2010), p. 624
• “What Price Flexibility? – The recent Commission Proposal to allow for national ‘opt-outs’ on GMO cultivation under the Deliberate Release Directive and the Comitology post-Lisbon”, European Journal of Risk Regulation Issue 4/2010, p. 345
• “The Regulatory Challenge of Animal Cloning for Food – the Risks of Risk Regulation in the European Union,” European Journal of Risk Regulation Issue 1/2010, p. 31

2009       

• “Regulating Animal Cloning under WTO Law – Policy Choice versus Science,” Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 20 (2009), p. 291

2008       

• “Legitimacy through Precaution in European Regulation of GMOs? “ in: Christian Joerges/Poul Kjaer (eds.), Transnational Standards of Social Protection: Contrasting European and International Governance, RECON Report No 4 (Arena, Oslo)

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In the academic year 2013/2014 Maria contributed to the teaching of two courses at the Department of International Public and European Law:

European Constitutional Law (3524CON0AY) EU Law track of the Master's in International and European Law

Europees Recht I (3011EU14WY) Bachelor Rechtsgeleerdheid

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