Piet Eeckhout

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Piet Eeckhout is a Professor of European Law at King's College London and Director of the Centre of European Law. He is an associate academic member of Matrix Chambers, London. Before joining King's College in 1998 he held academic positions at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels, and worked in the Chambers of Advocate General Jacobs, European Court of Justice (1994-1998).

Eeckhout's academic interests and activities cover many different areas of European Union law inlcuding external relations, the internal market, state aid, judicial protection, the constitutionalization process, and fundamental rights protection. He is also very active in the field of international economic law. Eeckhout is editor of the Yearbook of European Law and is the author of External Relations of the European Union - Legal and Constitutional Foundations and of The European Internal Market and International Trade - A Legal Analysis.