BACKGROUND

Professor Perju joined the BC Law faculty in 2007. His primary research and teaching interests include European legal thought, comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy.

He holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School, with a dissertation entitled “The Province of Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Constitutional Foundations”. Prior to doctoral work, he earned a pair of law degrees from the University of Bucharest and the University of Paris I, an LL.M. degree summa cum laude from the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels, Belgium and graduated from the LL.M. program at Harvard (degree waived).

At Harvard Law School, he taught a workshop on global constitutionalism as a Byse Fellow. Also at Harvard, he was a Research Fellow in the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics and a Graduate Fellow in the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. He convened the Law Teaching Colloquium and served as a co-coordinator of the Graduate Forum in Comparative Constitutional Law.

At Boston College Law School, he offers courses in European Union Law and Constitutional Law II.


EDUCATION

S.J.D., LL.M. Program, Harvard University; LL.M., European Academy of Legal Theory; LL.B., University of Bucharest; Maitrise, University of Paris I (Sorbonne).

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice." Forthcoming in Virginia Journal of International Law (2008)

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Coming soon

COURSES

Fall '07: European Union Law;European Union Moot Court Team
Spring '08: Constitutional Law II; European Union Moot Court Team

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Puzzling Parameters of the Foreign Law Debate." Utah Law Review v.2007 (2007): 167-214.


• "Comparative Constitutionalism and the Making of A New World Order." Constellations 12 (2005): 464-486.
  
• Review of Toward Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism, by Ran Hirschel. Modern Law Review  68 (2005): 1038-1041.