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.

In the Fall 2009, Professor Perju was a research fellow at NYU Law School. He was appointed an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University starting in Spring 2010. In November 2009, he was awarded the 2009 Ius Commune Prize for his article entitled "Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice" (49 Virginia Journal of International Law 307).

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


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

1. Struggles for Recognition in Modern Law: The Case of Disability Rights in the EU and the US

2. Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government

3. Positional Objectivity and the Case for Proportionality Analysis in Constitutional Law

4. The Transformation of Eastern Europe

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Paper on "Positional Objectivity and Proportionality Analysis" presented at the Fourth Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop (Princeton University, February 2009)

"Reason an Authority in the European Court of Justice", Harvard European Law Association (Harvard Law School, February 2009)

Participant on panel on "Proportionality and Freedom" organized by the Harvard European Law Association and Harvard Legal Theory (Harvard Law School, November 2008)

Panelist at conference on "The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century" (Boston University Law School, November 2008)

Professor of Theory of the State, European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels, Belgium).

Appointed by the President of Romania to an advisory commission for the analysis of the current constitutional regime and the study of possible reforms (July 2008).

COURSES

Fall '09: No courses taught
Spring '10: European Union Moot Court Team; Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law II

PUBLICATIONS

• "Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice."  Virginia Journal of International Law 49, no.2 (Winter 2009): 307-377.
  
  
• "A Comment on 'Legisprudence.' "  Boston University Law Review  89, no.2 (April 2009): 427-434.
  
  
• Review of  The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, Sujit Choudry, ed.  International Journal of Constitutional Law: I-Con 7, issue 1 (January 2009): 170-174.
  
  
• "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.