Vlad F. Perju

assistant professor of law


Vlad Perju

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Assistant Professor
Law School

perju@bc.edu

Office Location
Law School
LIB200

617.552.0981

   

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, 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

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

"A Comparative Study of Disability Rights in the EU, US and the UN."

"The Transformation of Eastern Europe."

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Invited Participant, Workshop on Comparative Administrative Law (Yale Law School, May 2009)

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