Laurence W Gormley

Laurence Gormley is Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1978 and was awarded the Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Award for that year. He was an Official at the European Commission from 1983-1990, and in 1990 was appointed to the Chair of European Law in Groningen, where he leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is on the Editorial Boards...See more

Laurence Gormley is Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1978 and was awarded the Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Award for that year. He was an Official at the European Commission from 1983-1990, and in 1990 was appointed to the Chair of European Law in Groningen, where he leads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals and has written extensively on European Union Law in myriad articles and contributions to books. He is the author of Prohibiting Restrictions on Trade within the EEC (North Holland, 1985) and of two parts of Vol. 52 of Halsbury's Laws (4th. Ed., 1986). He edited the 2nd. (1989) and 3rd. (1998) editions of Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat's Introduction to the Law of the European Communities (Kluwer Law International). He has been Visiting Professor at various Law Faculties, including University College, London, Bonn, Leuven and Bremen, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College and the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge. From 1995-2005 he was Chairman of the Dutch Association for Procurement Law, of which he is now an Honorary member and member of the Advisory Council. See less