BACKGROUND

Professor Perju is a tenured Associate Professor at BC Law, where he has been teaching since 2007. His primary research and teaching interests include the law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory and legal theory. In January 2012, Perju was appointed Associate Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College.

Perju 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.

Perju was a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard Law School in the Fall Term 2011.

In the Fall 2009, Professor Perju was a research fellow at NYU Law School. Between 2008 and 2010, he was also the professor of theory of the state at the European Academy of Legal Theory. In 2008 he was appointed by the President of Romania to a commission on constitution reform. 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).  His paper "Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government" was selected for presentation at the 2010 Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum.

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).

COURSES

Fall 2011: Philosophy of Law: Past & Future; European Union Moot Court Team; European Union Law
Spring 2012: Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law II 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

1. Proportionality and Freedom: An Essay on Method in Constitutional Law (forthcoming, Journal of Global Constitutionalism, 2012).

2. New Governance and Rights Claims: Lessons from Europe (in Philippe Reyniers and Karolina Podstawa (eds.), Courts and New Governance: Towards Experimentalist Jurisprudence, forthcoming Hart Publishing, 2012).

3. Cosmopolitanism in Constitutional Law (2011).

4. "Constitutional Borrowing and Transplants," Entry in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (M. Rosenfeld & A. Sajo, eds.) (forthcoming 2012)

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Panelist: “Constitutionalism in the Twenty-First Century”, Global Legal Education Forum (Harvard Law School, March 2012)

Participant: Workshop on “The Social Model of Disability” (Columbia Law School, March 2012)

Provocation Paper: “Law’s Republics”, Symposium in Honor of Professor Frank Michelman (Harvard Law School, February 2012

Lecture: "The Next Transformation of Europe: Law and Politics After the Crisis," (Harvard Law School, November 2011)

Paper Presentation: "Proportionality and Freedom: An Essay on Method in Constitutional Law," NYU Colloquium on Global and Comparative Public Law (NYU Law School, October 2011)

Paper Presentation: "The Transformation of Europe- From Behind the Wall," Conference Celebrating 20 Years since the Publication of Joseph Weiler's Transformation of Europe (Yale Law School, October 2011)

Paper Presentation, "New Governance and Rights-Claims: Lessons from Europe," Conference on Courts and New Governance (European University Institute, Florence, June 2011)

Commentator: Paper on "The Past and Future of EU Disability Law," Conference Evolutions in Anti-Discrimination Law in Europe and North America (Harvard Law School, May 2011)

Paper Presentation: "Constitutional Responsiveness in Pluralist Societies," Conference on "Managing Diversity in Pluralist Societies" (University of Hong Kong April 2011)

Paper Presentation: "Cosmopolitanism in Constitutional Law," at the Roundtable on Comparative Constitutional Law (George Washington University Law School) (March 2011)

Paper Presentation: “Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government”, in the series on “Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism” (Osgoode Hall Law School & York University Department of Philosophy, Toronto) (February 2011)
 
Panelist: “Proportionality in the European Court of Justice: Theory, Practice and Institutional Self-Understanding”, Conference on “Reappraising the Judicial Role: European and Australian Comparative Perspectives” (Australian National University Center for European Studies, Canberra) (February 2011)
 
Paper Presentation: “Freedom and Imagination: Constitutional Space in the Cosmopolitan Project”, in Conference on “Constitutionalism in a New Key” (Humboldt University & Social Science Research Center, Berlin) (January 2011)

Moderator & Discussant: “The Past and the Future of Constitutionalism: Theory and Practices from Comparative Perspective” (Harvard Law School, November 2010)

Paper Presentation: "Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government” (University of Michigan Law School, August 2010)

Paper Presentation: "Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government", The 2010 Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Colloquium (Yale Law School, June 2010)

Paper Presentation: "Impairment, Discrimination and the Legal Construction of Disability" (Boston University Law School, March 2010)

Commentator, Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable, George Washington University Law School (March 2010)

Participant, Conference on Teaching EU Law (Boston University Law School, February 2010)

Paper Presentation: "Impairment, Disability and the Legal Construction of Disability in the United States and Europe" (NYU Law School, November 2009)

Participant, Workshop on "Comparative Perspectives on Federalism and Separation of Powers: Lessons from--and for--National, Supranational, and Global Governance" (The Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin, July 2009)

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

Paper Presentation: "Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice" (Harvard Law School: Harvard European Law Association, February 2009)

Paper Presentation: "Positional Objectivity and the Case for Proportionality Analysis" at the Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop (Princeton, February 2009)

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

Panelist: "Proportionality and Freedom" (Harvard Law School: Harvard Legal Theory Forum, November 2008)

PUBLICATIONS

• "Impairment, Discrimination and the Legal Definition of Disability in the European Union and the United States." Cornell International Law Journal 44, no.2 (Spring 2011): 279-348.

• "Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government." International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-Con) 8, no.3 (2010): 326-353. (earlier SSRN draft available here)

• "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 Choudhry, 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 Hirschl. Modern Law Review  68 (2005): 1038-1041.