Dr Ami Barav

Advises on European Community and Union Law: Competition, Public Procurement, State aid, Free movement of goods, Right of establishment, Freedom to provide services, Air transport, Remedies.

Delivered papers in conferences organized by the American Society of International law, Europa Institute of the University of Leiden, the Union of European Lawyers, the Stockholm Institute of European research, the Lisbon Bar Association.

Represented the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the Swedish Federation of Local Authorities, the Banque fédérale des banques populaires and 7 other French banks in cases before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg.

Represented FIFA and the Société Générale before the European Commission.

APPOINTMENTS

• Barrister of the Bar of England and Wales (1993)
• Avocat of the Paris Bar (1992)
• Professor, University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Doctorate thesis: « La fonction communautaire du juge national » 1983
• Held permanent teaching positions at the University of Reading (1975-1985) and at the University of Essex (1985-1990)
• Held visiting professorships at the Universities of Oxford, Cornell, South California and at the College of Europe, Bruges
• Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1987/88)
• Consultant to the law firm Theodore Goddard, London & Paris (1991-1995)
• Taught at various French (Rennes, Lyon, Strasbourg), Spanish (Autonoma de Barcelona, Carlos III Madrid), Portuguese (Lusiada, Coimbra) and Stockholm Universities and at the French Ecole nationale de la Magistrature, the Spanish Council of the Judicial Power and the Portuguese Centre of Judicial Studies and National Institute for Administration
• Rapporteur Général, 1998 Fédération Internationale de droit européen (FIDE) Congrès, Stockholm
• Standing Counsel to FIFA on European Law matters

EDUCATION

Studied at the University of Strasbourg (Maîrise en droit and Doctorat d'Etat), The London School of Economics (MSc Politics and LLM) and the University of Edinburgh.

PUBLICATIONS

Co-Author of “Contentieux Communautaire” (Brussels 1977) and co-Editor of « Dictionnaire Juridique des Communautés Européennes » (Paris 1992). Co-Editor of “Oxford Yearbook of European Law” (1987-1997).

Has published numerous articles in several leading legal periodicals (Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, Oxford Yearbook of European Law, Legal Issues of European Integration, New Law Journal, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen, Cahiers de droit européen, Revue du Marché Commun, Revue belge de droit international, Noticias CEE, Revista de Institucions Europeas) and collective books (Mélanges J-C. Gautron (2004), Mélanges G. Cohen-Jonathan (2004), Mélanges Guy Isaac (2003), Festschrift für G.C. Rodriguez-Iglesias (2003), Judicial discretion in European perspective (2003), Mélanges J. Waline (2002), Scritti in onore di Federico Mancini (1998), Le droit au juge dans l’Union européenne (1997), Essays in honour of Henry Schermers (1994), Mélanges J. Boulouis
(1991), Gedachtnisschrift für L.-J. Constantinesco (1983).

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