Jolien Timmermans
Jolien Timmermans (b. 2 March 1991, Jette) is attached to the Ghent European Law Institute as a voluntary staff member since 2023.
Jolien currently works as a legal assistant in the Cabinet of Judge Mr Geert De Baere at the General Court at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Previously, she was an academic assistant and PhD student at the Ghent European Law Institute in the Department of European, Public and International Law (2017-2023).
Currently, under the supervision of Professors Erwan Lannon and Merijn Chamon, she is finalising a doctoral thesis in the context of the European Banking Union (specifically with a focus on the Single Resolution Mechanism for failing banks) and its legality in light of European constitutional law.
She obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Hasselt University (2009-2012). She then obtained a master of law at KU Leuven (2012-2014), specialising in tax law, international and European law. Subsequently, she specialised further in European law during the LLM "European Law School - Public Law and Governance Track" at Maastricht University (2015-2016).
During both her master and LL.M., she conducted research on the influence of the Member States on the decision-making of the Court of Justice of the European Union. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she coached the UGent team in the 2018 European Law Moot Court Competition, in which she also participated during her LL.M. in Maastricht.
Areas of interest
- European constitutional law
- Economic and financial integration in the EU with a specific focus on the European banking union
- Legal protection in the European Union
- European environmental law
- European tax law
