MIPLC Managing Board Member Thomas Möllers Awarded Jean Monnet Chair

The MIPLC wishes to congratulate its Managing Board member Professor Dr. Thomas M. J. Möllers, holder of the Chair for Civil Law, Economic Law, European Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Augsburg, on his receipt of a Jean Monnet Chair, awarded him by the European Union.

The Jean Monnet Project, which carries the name of the "father of European Integration," was founded in 1990 by the European Union. The Project supports programs of exceptional quality that spread knowledge and understanding of the European Union at universities worldwide. In 2005, the Project chose 32 new Jean Monnet Chairs from 488 applications submitted from around the world.

Professor Möllers has worked for many years in the area of European Union law. He is the Managing Director of the Institute for European Legal Systems at the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg. He specializes in German and European economic law. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in both German and English language professional journals and has given numerous lectures both in Germany and abroad. In his courses at the University of Augsburg and as Visiting Professor at several U.S. law schools, Prof. Möllers has introduced students to the law of the European Union through presentation of primary and secondary legal sources as well as the decisions of the European Court of Justice.

The holders of Jean Monnet Chairs have the duty to focus their teaching and research efforts on questions and issues of European integration, and thereby to contribute to knowledge and understanding of the European Union. After the admission of ten new member states in May 2004, the Union faces new challenges. The rejection of a new European constitution in referenda in France and the Netherlands has shown that extensive deliberation is needed about the future of Europe. Professor Möllers wants to commit himself to such deliberation through intensive dialogue with both students and the public.