Dr. Auke Willems

Biography

Auke Willems is a Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in EU criminal law, completed jointly at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles. Willems has also earned LLM degrees in International Law from the University of Edinburgh and in EU fundamental rights from the University of Glasgow. He holds an LLB in Law from the University of Amsterdam. His professional experience includes positions as a teaching and research assistant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and researcher at the Institute of European Studies. Willems has served as an editorial assistant for the New Journal of European Criminal Law and has been a visiting researcher at prominent institutions such as the European University Institute, Columbia University Law School, and Babeș-Bolyai University. His research interests predominantly focus on EU law, EU criminal law, human rights law, counter-terrorism law, and international criminal law. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at international conferences. Auke's doctoral research examined the principle of mutual trust within the EU mutual recognition framework for criminal justice cooperation, incorporating a comparative EU-USA study and a multi-disciplinary analysis of trust developed in the social sciences.

Research Interests