Loïc Azoulai holds the chair of European Law at the European University Institute. He is codirector of the Academy of European Law and of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation both hosted at the European University Institute. He is a member of the Boards of different law journals among which include Common Market Law Review, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen, European Journal of Legal studies (EJLS ). He has published on a wide range of questions of European Union Law.; Karin de Vries is an Assistant Professor at the VU University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the VU University in 2012 and from 2011 to 2012 she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.