Stanislas Adam

Stanislas Adam is référendaire at the Court of Justice (Luxembourg), in the cabinet of President Koen Lenaerts, and professor of European Union law at Ghent University, where he teaches ‘EU Competition Law’ (in cooperation with Ph. Vlaemminck and J. Bocken) and ‘EU-US federal orders compared’. He also teaches internal market law and competition law at the University of Luxembourg.

After graduating in law at the UCL (Belgium) and in European law at Ghent University, he was awarded a doctorate fellowship from the National Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO). He defended his doctoral thesis in 2010, under supervision of Professor Marc Maresceau (La procédure d’avis devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, Bruylant 2011). He then studied at Harvard University (LL.M.), where he benefitted from the Frank Boas Scholarship for Graduate Studies. He was also a lawyer at the Brussels Bar (2004-2006). After obtaining his PhD and LL.M degree, he was appointed in 2011 as legal secretary at the CJEU, where he successively worked for Judge Nicholas J. Forwood (General Court), Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston (Court) and Judge Ricardo da Silva Passos (General Court), before joining the cabinet of the President of the Court of Justice, Koen Lenaerts, in 2017. Being entrusted in particular with the preparation of Grand Chamber and Full Court cases, he enjoys a privileged position to take part in the development of EU case-law.

Stanislas Adam has extensively published (in French, English and Dutch) in European law, administrative law, and constitutional law. He is one of the editorial directors of the Cahiers de droit européen.

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