Loïc Azoulai

Loïc Azoulai is a legal scholar known for his work on European Union law. Since January 2024, he holds the Chair in Law and Social Europe at the European University Institute, one of Europe's leading postgraduate institutions, on secondment from Sciences Po. In January 2025, he was appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the EUI Department of Law.

Career Azoulai studied law at the University of Nice in the 1990s, From 2003 to 2006, he worked as a legal secretary (référendaire) for Miguel Poiares Maduro, at the time an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

As part of his academic work, Azoulai is a member of the editorial board of the legal journals Common Market Law Review and Revue trimestrielle de droit européen. In 2019, he was a panel member for the ERC Advanced Grant selection procedure, within the area of [ Social Sciences and Humanities].

Selected publications

Azoulai, Loïc. "The Court of Justice and the social market economy: the emergence of an ideal and the conditions for its realization." Common Market Law Review 45.5 (2008). Maduro, Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa, and Loïc Azoulai, eds. The past and future of EU law: the classics of EU law revisited on the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Reviewed by Niamh Nic Shuibhne at the Yearbook of European Law. Azoulai, Loïc. "The Retained Powers' Formula in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice: EU Law as Total Law." Eur. J. Legal Stud. 4 (2011): 178. Azoulai, Loïc. "“Integration through law” and us." International Journal of Constitutional Law 14.2 (2016): 449-463. Azoulai, Loïc. "The law of European society." Common Market Law Review 59.Special (2022).