Francis
Snyder
Email:
f.g.snyder@lse.ac.uk
Administrative support:
Dianne Delvaille
Centennial Professor in the Law Department, LSE; Professeur des Universités and Professeur of Law [Professeur titulaire], Université Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III; and European Union Jean Monnet Chair ad personam. C.V. Starr Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Transnational Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law; LSE Academic Director, LSE-PKU [Peking University] Summer School; Founder and Director, Academy of International Trade Law, Macao, China, since 1999; Director of The Hague Academy of International Law Centre for Studies and Research, 2003; Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) 2000-2001. Previously Professor of European Law, European University Institute, Florence, 1992-2000 and Director, Academy of European Law, Florence, 1997-2000; Reader then Professor of European Law, University College London, 1987-1992. B.A.Hons. Yale University 1964; Fulbright Scholar, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), 1964-1965; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1968; Certificat de Droit et Economie des Pays d'Afrique, Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), 1969; PhD, Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), 1973. Member of the Bar of Massachusetts, USA, since 1968 (on inactive list).
see also Francis Snyder's LSE Experts page
Research interests
WTO law and international economic law; EU external relations, customs law and international trade law, especially relations between the EU and the WTO and trade between the EU and China; anti-dumping law; international and domestic regulation of food safety and technical standards; constitutional law of the European Union.
Recent research grants include: European Science Foundation, £12,001, ESF/SCSS Exploratory Workshop, 'The Strategic Use of European Law and Its Implications for the Labour Market in the EU and China: A Comparison of Transnational Companies, International Production Networks and SMEs', LSE, 12-13 December 2003; Economic and Social Research Council, £13,544.35 , ESRC EU-China-WTO Research Seminar Network, for 2005 and 2006; a number of grants from European Commission and other organisations for the annual International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH), since 2002, leading to publication, partly in a special issue of the European Law Journal and partly in an edited volume published by Bruylant (Brussels)
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Editorships:
• European Law Journal: Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, since 1994
• Modern Law Review: Editorial Advisory Board, previously Editorial Board and European Law Editor
• Droit et Société (CNRS, Paris): Editorial Board
• Encyclopedia of Law and Society (New York): Editorial Board
• Journal of Legal Pluralism; Editorial Board; previously African Law Studies (Editorial Board, Book Review Editor)
• Dicionário da Globalização (Editora Lumen Juris, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Editorial Advisory Board
• Revista Juridica (Lisbon): Editorial Advisory Board
• Sociologia di Diritto (Milan): Correspondent
• Review of African Political Economy (UK): Correspondent, previously member of Editorial Board)
• Law and Society Review (USA): previously member of the Editorial Advisory Board)
• International and Comparative Law Quarterly: previously Correspondent for European agricultural law -
Publication Series:
• Studies in European Law and Integration, Hart Publishing, 1999-2005: Co-editor
• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, Cambridge University Press: Advisory Board
• EU Law Studies Series [in Chinese], China Law Press, Beijing: Advisory Board
• Yearbook of European Environmental Law, Oxford University Press: Advisory Board -
Membership / Consultancy
• EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme, the first Robert Schuman Professor (1998) and subsequently informal advisor to various European studies centres in China, especially Peking University and Chinese Academy of Social Science (Beijing)
• EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation Programme, member of the Programme Advisory Group: principal advisor on designing training programmes, curriculum development, pedagogy, in-house evaluation
• Founder and Director, Academy of International Trade Law, Macau, China, since 1999
• Participant in the UK Government & Government of the People's Republic of China, Workshop leading to the signature of a Joint Statement by the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 'UK-China High-Level Dialogue on Sustainable Development', held at The Reform Club, London, November 2005
• Active participant in the establishment and operation of the Institute of European Studies of Macau, since 1998
• Advisor to the Government of Mauritius on WTO law, especially Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, 2005
• Training of civil servants, Government of Macau, on all aspects of WTO law, 2004, 2005
• Training of Chinese lawyers and civil servants on EC antidumping law and international trade law, various occasions, 2000-2005
• Various consultancies on WTO law, GATT, SPS, TBT, Customs Valuation, Rules of Origin, EU law, EC common agricultural policy
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Research Collaborations/Participation
• Scientific advisor, Project for the translation of the EU and EC treaties into Chinese, project based at Fudan University (Shanghai) with cooperation of Peking University, Wuhan University and Chinese Academy of Social Science (Beijing)
• Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association: member of the Board and also Founder and coordinator of the Working Group on the Sociology of European Union Law
• Advisor for the creation of the Master in Comparative, European and International Law, University of Macau, since 2003
• Advisor for the creation of the Master in International Economic and Commercial Law, Macau University of Science and Technology, since 2004
• Founder and organiser of the International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH) / Rencontre internationale des jeunes chercheurs (RIJC), bringing together the best young scholars (advanced doctoral students) on a given topic each year, typically 150 applications for 18 places, now in its 5th year, held annually at the Université Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III: topics: 'European Legal Studies in the 21st Century' (September 2002); 'Food Safety in Europe and the World' (September 2003), 'Enlargement and the New Europe after 2004' (2004), 'Designing the European Union' (November 2005), 'Europe, India and China: Strategic Partners in a Changing World' (November 2006); a selection of the revised papers are published each year in the European Law Journal and in a bilingual edited book published by Bruylant (Brussels); WISH/RIJC is organised by the European Law Journal with the collaboration of the CERIC, Université Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III, and the College of Europe (Warsaw). In 2008 it will be organised in Berlin together with the Humboldt University, Berlin.
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At the Université Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III, I currently teach undergraduate and graduate courses on WTO law and EU law (list available on request)
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I also teach at the College of Europe in Bruges (since 1989) and in Warsaw (since 2000), as follows: (a) Bruges: 1989-2003: 'Law of European Institutions', 2004-present: 'Law and Economics of Competition and Regulation' (with an economist) and 'The Legal Framework of Relations between the EU and China'; (b) Warsaw: 'EU Trade Policy and WTO: The Legal Framework'
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I regularly teach at Peking University, Tsinghua University and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE). Beijing (EU and WTO law), University of Macau (EU Institutions), Institute of European Studies of Macau (EU Law)
