Rate My Professor Mathieu Leloup

Mathieu Leloup is an assistant professor in constitutional and administrative law at Tilburg University, where he is affiliated with Tilburg Law School and the Department of Public Law and Governance. He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Antwerp and an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice. In 2021, he obtained his PhD in law from the University of Antwerp with a dissertation examining the impact of the fundamental rights case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice on domestic separation of powers.

Leloup’s research focuses on constitutional and fundamental rights law, with particular attention to institutional questions including separation of powers, judicial independence, judicial governance, multilevel constitutionalism, and election law. He maintains a strong interest in the interactions between supranational and national legal orders as well as the intersection of fundamental rights and constitutional law. Since 2021 he has served as a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University in Brno on the ERC-funded INFINITY project concerning informal judicial institutions. He is also a tenure-track professor of constitutional law at Ghent University and serves as Tilburg University’s member on the Advisory Committee of the ICON-S Benelux chapter. His recent publications address topics such as mutual trust and fundamental rights safeguards, the effects of EU primacy on national legal systems, and the role of non-independent apex courts under the European Convention on Human Rights.