Jean Monnet Professor of European Law, Boston University
LL.B. summa cum laude, University of Bari (Italy)
LL.M., Harvard University
Doctorate in Comparative Law, University of Florence (Italy)
Areas of Expertise
Contracts, International & Comparative Law
Biography
Professor Daniela Caruso has taught Contracts and European Union law at BU Law for many years. She has also taught a variety of law seminars and an interdisciplinary course on Autism at the Kilachand Honors College. In her EU Law publications, she has focused on private law as a particularly effective tool for analyzing the political transformation of supranational institutions. She has also written on equality and federalism, on the implications of European integration for state-based social legislation, and on regional policies. Professor Caruso is frequently invited to lecture on such topics. In 2008 and 2014, she was visiting professor and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. She has lectured at Oxford, at the London School of Economics, and at the Universities of Pisa and Amsterdam. “The legal integration of the European Union illustrates most vividly the impact of free trade on the social and political structures of sovereign nations,” she explains. In matters of contract law, her articles have dealt with the distributive impact of pseudo-contractual mechanisms in the delivery of special education services, and with the links between contract doctrines and welfare reform in domestic and comparative perspectives. Her article “Autism in the US: Social Movement and Legal Change” was published by the American Journal of Law and Medicine (2010). More recently, her articles have been published by the American Journal of Comparative Law and by the European Law Journal. Her pro-bono work concerns special education law and residential mental health units. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University since 2012. She was named Jean Monnet Chair of European Law in 2015.
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