Staff Profile:Dr Anne Thies

Name:

Dr Anne Thies

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Dr Anne Thies currently teaches the following courses:

• LLB: Public International Law; Foundations of European Union Law; General Principles of Law 
• LLM: International Law in Theory and Practice; Contemporary Issues in International Law; International Dispute Settlement; The Single Market: Trade and Commerce in an Integrated Europe

She also organises the PG study trip to Geneva.

Areas of Interest:

Public international law, international dispute settlement, international trade law, EU law, EU external relations law.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• "The Locus Standi of the Regions before Community Courts" in: De Becker, Panara (eds), The Role of the Regions in the European Governance, Springer Verlag Heidelberg, 2011
• "The impact of general principles of EC law on its liability regime towards retaliation victims after FIAMM", (2009), 34 European Law Review 889-913 
• Commentary on Articles 230-233 EC in: Herzog, Campbell, Zagel (eds.), Smit & Herzog on the Law of the European Union - A Commentary of the Treaties, 2008, inter alia on the availability of (primary legal) remedies for individuals and the European Courts' legality review
• Case annotation on the judgments of 14 December 2005, Court of First Instance in Cases T-69/00, T-151/00, T-301/00, T-320/00,T-383/00 and T-135/01 FIAMM et al., 43 Common Market Law Review (2006), 1145-1168
• Commentary on Articles 281-287 and 289-307 EC for an online-based project of LexisNexis (published online in 2005), inter alia on the relevance of international agreements in the European legal system
• 'Biret and beyond: The status of WTO rulings in EC Law' 41 Common Market Law Review (2004), 1661-1682

Book reviews on:

• Federico Ortino, 'Basic Legal Instruments for the Liberalisation of Trade: A Comparative Analysis of EC and WTO Law', 2004, 43 Common Market Law Review (2006), 611-612
• Thomas Cottier/Matthias Oesch, 'International Trade Regulation: Law and Policy in the WTO, the European Union and Switzerland - Cases, Materials and Comments', 2005, 43 Common Market Law Review (2006), 1768-1770

Recent Conference Papers:

• "The PFOS decision of the ECJ: the Member States' obligation to refrain from unilateral external action in areas of shared competences", UAM International Conferenceon EU Law - Recent Trends in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the EU (2008-2011), 14 and 15 July 2011, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Faculty of Law, Spain
• "EU membership of the WTO: international trade disputes and judicial protection of individuals by EU Courts", Workshop on "Changing Subjects: Rights, Remedies and Responsibilities of Individuals Under Global Legal Pluralism" (co-organised with Dr Turkuler Isiksel, EUI & Columbia, NY), 7 May 2011, EUI, Florence, Italy
• "Loyalty and its limits: competences and cooperation duties in European external relations", Conference on EU External Relations Law and Policy in the post-Lisbon Era, 13-14 January 2011, Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, School of Law, Sheffield
• "Le devoir de coopération loyale dans le cadre de l'action extérieure", Colloque: Objectifs & compétences dans l'Union européenne, organised by Professor Eleftheria Neframi (Université Paris 13), 10 December 2010, OECD, Paris
• "The Reception of International Law by the European Court of Justice", Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group, 18 February 2010, New College, Oxford.
• "The impact of general principles of EC law on its liability regime towards retaliation victims after FIAMM", panel discussion on "Kadi and FIAMM: Sharper Divisions between the EC and the International Legal Orders?", 13 May 2009, BIICL, London.
• "The impact of general principles of Community law on Community liability in the context of international trade disputes", Workshop Interest Group International Economic Law, 3rd Biennial Conference of ESIL, 4-6 September 2008, Heidelberg.
• "Liability of the EC in the absence of unlawfulness - AG Maduro's Opinion in FIAMM", 8th Annual WTO Conference, 13-14 May 2008, London.
• Comment on Piet Eeckhout's paper "EC Law and UN Security Council Resolutions - In Search of the Right Fit", 46th London-Leiden Meeting, 30 June 2007, London. 

Qualifications:

First State Exam in Law (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich); Second State Exam in Law and admission as Rechtsanwältin (barrister/solicitor) in Munich; LL.M. (London School of Economics), Ph.D. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)

Biographical Details:

Anne joined the Law School as a Lecturer in September 2007. Before joining the School she taught EU law at King's College London and Saarland University, and international dispute settlement at the University of Basel. In her research Anne focuses on public international, international trade and European law. She is particularly interested in international dispute settlement, the interrelationships between different international legal systems and EU external relations law. She is currently completing her manuscript, International Trade Disputes and EU Liability, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in the Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy series in 2011. Anne has been awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence for the academic year 2010/11 where she is exploring the constitutional basis and scope of loyalty obligations of the EU and its Member States in the context of external relations. Anne is admitted to the German bar as Rechtsanwältin (solicitor/barrister) and also trained as a mediator. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of European Law, King's College London, Editorial Board Member of ZEuS (Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien/Journal for European Legal Studies), and Book Review Editor of the Yearbook of European Law.