Yr Athro Stijn Smismans
Professor of Law
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Stijn Smismans is Professor of Law, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and Governance, and Director of the CardiffCentre for European Law and Governance, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Prior to joining Cardiff Law School, he was Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Sociology of the University of Trento (Italy). He studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, and has a European Master in international relations from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice and a PhD from the European University Institute. He has been Marie Curie Fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics of the University of Bristol.
His research on European governance builds bridges between different disciplines, from law and political science, to sociology and industrial relations. He has provided policy advice to the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, and the Welsh National Assembly. He has held research projects funded by the European Commission, the European Research Council, the European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions, and the Italian Ministry for University Education and Research.
His current research focuses in particular on the regulation of different types of expertise in European policy-making.
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Smismans, S. 2024. Brexit and labour governance: authoritarian innovations in the United Kingdom. Journal of Industrial Relations 66(4), pp. 538-557. (10.1177/00221856241280452)
2020
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2020. The law and politics of exit from the EU. In: Cardwell, P. J. and Granger, M. eds. Research Handbook of the Politics of EU Law. Research Handbooks in Law and Politics Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 106-124.
2019
- Smismans, S. 2019. Protecting EU citizens in the UK from a Brexit ‘windrush on steroids’: a legislative proposal for a declaratory registration system. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3433055
- Smismans, S. 2019. Ring-fencing citizens’ rights in the Brexit negotiations: legal framework and political dynamics. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3324156
2018
- Smismans, S. 2018. EU citizens' rights post Brexit: why direct effect beyond the EU is not enough. European Constitutional Law Review 14(3), pp. 443-474. (10.1017/S1574019618000317)
2017
- Smismans, S. and Minto, R. 2017. Are integrated impact assessments the way forward for mainstreaming in the European Union?. Regulation and Governance 11(3), pp. 231-251. (10.1111/rego.12119)
- Smismans, S. 2017. The politicization of ex post policy evaluation in the EU. European Journal of Law Reform 19(1-2), pp. 74-96. (10.5553/EJLR/138723702017019102005)
- Smismans, S. 2017. Fundamental rights as a political myth of the EU. Can the myth survive?. In: Douglas-Scott, S. and Hatzis, N. eds. Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights. Research Handbooks in European Law series Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 13-34., (10.4337/9781782546405.00010)
- Smismans, S. and Stokes, E. 2017. Innovation types and regulation: the regulatory framing of nanotechnology as 'incremental' or 'radical' innovation. European Journal of Risk Regulation 8(2), pp. 364-386. (10.1017/err.2017.9)
- Smismans, S. 2017. Brexit. A separate citizens’ rights agreement under article 50 TEU. [Online]. EUtopialaw.
- Smismans, S. 2017. Risk regulation at risk. Brexit, Trump it, Risk it.. European Journal of Risk Regulation 8(1), pp. 33-42. (10.1017/err.2016.5)
2016
- Smismans, S. 2016. Regulatory procedure and participation in the European Union. In: Bignami, F. and Zaring, D. eds. Comparative Law and Regulation Understanding the Global Regulatory Process. Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 129–156., (10.4337/9781782545613.00014)
- Smismans, S. 2016. Constitutionalising expertise in the EU: anchoring knowledge in democracy.. In: Priban, J. ed. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU politics, law and governance. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 183-200.
- Bozzini, E. and Smismans, S. 2016. More inclusive European governance through impact assessments?. Comparative European Politics 14(1), pp. 89-106. (10.1057/cep.2015.11)
2015
- Smismans, S. 2015. Democratic participation and the search for an institutional architecture that accommodates interests and expertise. In: Piattoni, S. ed. The European Union: Institutional Architectures and Democratic Principles in Times of Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-111.
- Smismans, S. 2015. Policy evaluation in the EU: The challenges of linking ex ante and ex post appraisal.. European Journal of Risk Regulation 6(1), pp. 6-26. (10.1017/S1867299X00004244)
2014
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2014. The European Commission and political representation. A new interinstitutional perspective. In: Kroeger, S. ed. Political Representation in the European Union: Still democratic in times of crisis?. Routledge Advances in European Politics Routledge, pp. 125-142.
- Smismans, S. 2014. Regulating interest group participation in the European Union: changing paradigms between transparency and representation. European Law Review 39, pp. 470-492.
2012
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2012. Representativeness, a tool to structure interest intermediation in the European Union?. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 50(3), pp. 403-421. (10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02236.x)
2011
- Smismans, S. 2011. Interest representation in the EU, is there any? A top-down perspective. In: Kröger, S. and Friedrich, D. eds. The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 209-225.
- Smismans, S. 2011. From harmonization to co-ordination? EU law in the Lisbon governance architecture. Journal of European Public Policy 18(4), pp. 504-524. (10.1080/13501763.2011.560073)
- Smismans, S. 2011. European civil society and citizenship: complementary or exclusionary concepts?. In: Liebert, U. and Trenz, H. eds. The New Politics of Civil Society. Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe Vol. 6. London: Routledge, pp. 73-92.
2010
- Smismans, S. 2010. The European Union's fundamental rights myth. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 48(1), pp. 45-66. (10.1111/j.1468-5965.2009.02041.x)
- Smismans, S. 2010. European constitutionalism and the democratic design of European governance: rethinking directly deliberative polyarchy and reflexive constitutionalism. In: Kaarlo Tuori, K. and Sankari, S. eds. The Many Constitutions of Europe. Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 169-194.
- Smismans, S. and Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. 2010. Europeanisation, third sector and the other civil society. Journal of Civil Society 6(1), pp. 75-80. (10.1080/17448689.2010.481964)
- Smismans, S. 2010. New modes of governance and the participatory myth. In: Bellamy, R. and Palumbo, A. eds. From Government to Governance. The Library of Contemporary Essays in Political Theory and Public Policy Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 271-292.
2009
- Smismans, S. 2009. Should participatory democracy become the normative model for EU governance?. Re-Public
- Smismans, S. 2009. European civil society and citizenship: complementary or exclusionary concepts?. Policy and Society 28(1), pp. 59-70. (10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.02.006)
2008
- Smismans, S. 2008. Political representation in the European Union. In: IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law. MediaWiki
- Perez-Solorzano Borragan, N. and Smismans, S. 2008. The European Economic and Social Committee after enlargement. In: Best, E., Christiansen, T. and Settembri, P. eds. The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union: Continuity and Change. Studies in EU Reform and Enlargement Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 140-161.
- Smismans, S. 2008. The European social dialogue in the shadow of hierarchy. Journal of Public Policy 28(1), pp. 161-180. (10.1017/S0143814X08000822)
- Smismans, S. 2008. New modes of governance and the participatory myth. West European Politics 31(5), pp. 874-895. (10.1080/01402380802234540)
2007
- Smismans, S. 2007. New Governance - the solution for active European citizenship, or the end of citizenship?. Columbia Journal of European Law 13(3), pp. 595-622.
- Smismans, S. 2007. The European Social Dialogue between Constitutional and Labour Law. European Law Review 32(3), pp. 341-364.
2006
- Smismans, S. ed. 2006. Civil society and legitimate European governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2005
- Smismans, S. 2005. Functional participation in EU delegated regulation: Lessons from the USA at the EU's "constitutional moment". Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 12(2), pp. 599-630.
2004
- Smismans, S. 2004. Law, legitimacy and European governance: functional participation in social regulation. Oxford Studies in European Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2003
- Smismans, S. 2003. European civil society: shaped by discourses and institutional interests. European Law Journal 9(4), pp. 473-495. (10.1111/1468-0386.00187)
- Smismans, S. 2003. Towards a new community strategy on health and safety at work? Caught in the institutional web of soft procedures. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 19(1), pp. 55-83.
2000
- Smismans, S. 2000. The European Economic and Social Committee: towards deliberative democracy via a functional assembly. European Integration Online Papers 4(12)
1999
- Smismans, S. 1999. An Economic and Social Committee for the citizen, or a citizen for the Economic and Social Committee?. European Public Law 5(4), pp. 557-582.
Articles
- Smismans, S. 2024. Brexit and labour governance: authoritarian innovations in the United Kingdom. Journal of Industrial Relations 66(4), pp. 538-557. (10.1177/00221856241280452)
- Smismans, S. 2018. EU citizens' rights post Brexit: why direct effect beyond the EU is not enough. European Constitutional Law Review 14(3), pp. 443-474. (10.1017/S1574019618000317)
- Smismans, S. and Minto, R. 2017. Are integrated impact assessments the way forward for mainstreaming in the European Union?. Regulation and Governance 11(3), pp. 231-251. (10.1111/rego.12119)
- Smismans, S. 2017. The politicization of ex post policy evaluation in the EU. European Journal of Law Reform 19(1-2), pp. 74-96. (10.5553/EJLR/138723702017019102005)
- Smismans, S. and Stokes, E. 2017. Innovation types and regulation: the regulatory framing of nanotechnology as 'incremental' or 'radical' innovation. European Journal of Risk Regulation 8(2), pp. 364-386. (10.1017/err.2017.9)
- Smismans, S. 2017. Risk regulation at risk. Brexit, Trump it, Risk it.. European Journal of Risk Regulation 8(1), pp. 33-42. (10.1017/err.2016.5)
- Bozzini, E. and Smismans, S. 2016. More inclusive European governance through impact assessments?. Comparative European Politics 14(1), pp. 89-106. (10.1057/cep.2015.11)
- Smismans, S. 2015. Policy evaluation in the EU: The challenges of linking ex ante and ex post appraisal.. European Journal of Risk Regulation 6(1), pp. 6-26. (10.1017/S1867299X00004244)
- Smismans, S. 2014. Regulating interest group participation in the European Union: changing paradigms between transparency and representation. European Law Review 39, pp. 470-492.
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2012. Representativeness, a tool to structure interest intermediation in the European Union?. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 50(3), pp. 403-421. (10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02236.x)
- Smismans, S. 2011. From harmonization to co-ordination? EU law in the Lisbon governance architecture. Journal of European Public Policy 18(4), pp. 504-524. (10.1080/13501763.2011.560073)
- Smismans, S. 2010. The European Union's fundamental rights myth. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 48(1), pp. 45-66. (10.1111/j.1468-5965.2009.02041.x)
- Smismans, S. and Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. 2010. Europeanisation, third sector and the other civil society. Journal of Civil Society 6(1), pp. 75-80. (10.1080/17448689.2010.481964)
- Smismans, S. 2009. Should participatory democracy become the normative model for EU governance?. Re-Public
- Smismans, S. 2009. European civil society and citizenship: complementary or exclusionary concepts?. Policy and Society 28(1), pp. 59-70. (10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.02.006)
- Smismans, S. 2008. The European social dialogue in the shadow of hierarchy. Journal of Public Policy 28(1), pp. 161-180. (10.1017/S0143814X08000822)
- Smismans, S. 2008. New modes of governance and the participatory myth. West European Politics 31(5), pp. 874-895. (10.1080/01402380802234540)
- Smismans, S. 2007. New Governance - the solution for active European citizenship, or the end of citizenship?. Columbia Journal of European Law 13(3), pp. 595-622.
- Smismans, S. 2007. The European Social Dialogue between Constitutional and Labour Law. European Law Review 32(3), pp. 341-364.
- Smismans, S. 2005. Functional participation in EU delegated regulation: Lessons from the USA at the EU's "constitutional moment". Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 12(2), pp. 599-630.
- Smismans, S. 2003. European civil society: shaped by discourses and institutional interests. European Law Journal 9(4), pp. 473-495. (10.1111/1468-0386.00187)
- Smismans, S. 2003. Towards a new community strategy on health and safety at work? Caught in the institutional web of soft procedures. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 19(1), pp. 55-83.
- Smismans, S. 2000. The European Economic and Social Committee: towards deliberative democracy via a functional assembly. European Integration Online Papers 4(12)
- Smismans, S. 1999. An Economic and Social Committee for the citizen, or a citizen for the Economic and Social Committee?. European Public Law 5(4), pp. 557-582.
Book sections
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2020. The law and politics of exit from the EU. In: Cardwell, P. J. and Granger, M. eds. Research Handbook of the Politics of EU Law. Research Handbooks in Law and Politics Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 106-124.
- Smismans, S. 2017. Fundamental rights as a political myth of the EU. Can the myth survive?. In: Douglas-Scott, S. and Hatzis, N. eds. Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights. Research Handbooks in European Law series Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 13-34., (10.4337/9781782546405.00010)
- Smismans, S. 2016. Regulatory procedure and participation in the European Union. In: Bignami, F. and Zaring, D. eds. Comparative Law and Regulation Understanding the Global Regulatory Process. Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 129–156., (10.4337/9781782545613.00014)
- Smismans, S. 2016. Constitutionalising expertise in the EU: anchoring knowledge in democracy.. In: Priban, J. ed. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU politics, law and governance. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 183-200.
- Smismans, S. 2015. Democratic participation and the search for an institutional architecture that accommodates interests and expertise. In: Piattoni, S. ed. The European Union: Institutional Architectures and Democratic Principles in Times of Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-111.
- Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. and Smismans, S. 2014. The European Commission and political representation. A new interinstitutional perspective. In: Kroeger, S. ed. Political Representation in the European Union: Still democratic in times of crisis?. Routledge Advances in European Politics Routledge, pp. 125-142.
- Smismans, S. 2011. Interest representation in the EU, is there any? A top-down perspective. In: Kröger, S. and Friedrich, D. eds. The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 209-225.
- Smismans, S. 2011. European civil society and citizenship: complementary or exclusionary concepts?. In: Liebert, U. and Trenz, H. eds. The New Politics of Civil Society. Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe Vol. 6. London: Routledge, pp. 73-92.
- Smismans, S. 2010. European constitutionalism and the democratic design of European governance: rethinking directly deliberative polyarchy and reflexive constitutionalism. In: Kaarlo Tuori, K. and Sankari, S. eds. The Many Constitutions of Europe. Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 169-194.
- Smismans, S. 2010. New modes of governance and the participatory myth. In: Bellamy, R. and Palumbo, A. eds. From Government to Governance. The Library of Contemporary Essays in Political Theory and Public Policy Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 271-292.
- Smismans, S. 2008. Political representation in the European Union. In: IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law. MediaWiki
- Perez-Solorzano Borragan, N. and Smismans, S. 2008. The European Economic and Social Committee after enlargement. In: Best, E., Christiansen, T. and Settembri, P. eds. The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union: Continuity and Change. Studies in EU Reform and Enlargement Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 140-161.
Books
- Smismans, S. ed. 2006. Civil society and legitimate European governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Smismans, S. 2004. Law, legitimacy and European governance: functional participation in social regulation. Oxford Studies in European Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Monographs
- Smismans, S. 2019. Protecting EU citizens in the UK from a Brexit ‘windrush on steroids’: a legislative proposal for a declaratory registration system. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3433055
- Smismans, S. 2019. Ring-fencing citizens’ rights in the Brexit negotiations: legal framework and political dynamics. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3324156
Websites
- Smismans, S. 2017. Brexit. A separate citizens’ rights agreement under article 50 TEU. [Online]. EUtopialaw.
Ymchwil
see www.smismans.eu
ERC funded project LASI, 'Law, science and interests in European policy-making',
see www.smismans.eu
Addysgu
Israddedig: Cyfraith yr Undeb Ewropeaidd
Ôl-raddedig: Cyfraith a Llywodraethu Ewrop
Bywgraffiad
see www.smismans.eu
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Rwy'n croesawu cynigion ar gyfer PhD ym mhob maes o gyfraith, llywodraethu a gwleidyddiaeth yr UE, ac yn enwedig y rhai sy'n anelu at ddull rhyngddisgyblaethol ym meysydd llywodraethu a rheoleiddio.
Contact Details
SmismansS@caerdydd.ac.uk
+44 29208 75765
Adeilad y Gyfraith, Ystafell 2.13, Rhodfa'r Amgueddfa, Caerdydd, CF10 3AX
+44 29208 75765
Adeilad y Gyfraith, Ystafell 2.13, Rhodfa'r Amgueddfa, Caerdydd, CF10 3AX
