Rate My Professor Elise Muir

Muir’s research specializes in fundamental rights within EU law, covering constitutional implications of EU legislation, judicial protection by the CJEU and ECtHR, non-discrimination (including sex and employment), data protection, migration law, and transnational judicial cooperation. She was principal investigator of the RESHUFFLE project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2019-2025), analyzing the EU’s role in European fundamental rights law. At Maastricht, she completed Veni programme research (NWO, 2013-2017) on collective enforcement of EU non-economic law and Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship research (2011-2013) on horizontal effects of the EU non-discrimination principle. Her research programme received the 2012 Edmond Hustinx prize for science. Key publications include the monograph EU Equality Law (Oxford University Press, 2018); An Introduction to the EU Legal Order (Cambridge University Press, 2023); edited volumes Revisiting Judicial Politics in the European Union (Edward Elgar, 2024) and Activating human and fundamental rights before the European courts (Hart, 2026); and articles such as “Winds of Treaty change? Taking fundamental rights in the EU yet more seriously” (Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2024). She serves on the editorial boards of Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and European Council Studies, KU Leuven’s University research council and Faculty doctoral committee, and supervises doctoral theses on EU fundamental rights adjudication, data protection, and judicial dialogue.