Talk:Deirdre Curtin

A self-congratulatory bio (no mention of actual publications, substantive contributions to the field etc). Being a professor at 32 is very common as many Dutch universities employ American academic titles . Possibly this academic did become a "full professor" (equivalent to an English ranked Professor) at an early; this would be quite rare, and, in which case, a Wiki entry seems appropriate. Legalbard (talk) 17:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

that's exactly what is meant: the Dutch title 'professor' is only exclusively used for full professors; in the Netherlands, assistent professors and associate professors are called 'universitair (hoofd)docent' i.e. something like 'academic teacher'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.81.188.199 (talk) 12:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Upon closer inspection, it seems that this person is relatively minor, and therefore does not even justify having a Wikipedia page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.35.80 (talk) 08:01, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• My conflict of interest:

As disclosed in my user page, I have been supervised by Deirdre Curtin in my PhD, and I am currently carrying out an exernal collaborator contract to, among other things, help the EUI Law Department improve its online presence.

• Why it should be changed:

Deirdre Curtin is a scholar known for her work on European Union law. However, previous discussions on this talk page correctly point out that the current version of the article does not show why that's the case. There is a mention of her Spinoza Prize without clarifying why the prize was awarded. It would be useful to provide a brief description of the work she is known for, both before and after the award.

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

Adding a new section (perhaps titled Academic Work) with an overview of the positions Curtin is known for.

Here is a suggested formulation. I have done my best to formulate the suggestion below from a neutral point of view, and to avoid syntheses of the quoted text that go beyond what can be found in the quoted source.

Academic Work

Deirdre Curtin’s research deals with the law and governance of the European Union. Her publications have engaged with various aspects of European law, such as the regulation of financial markets, the Artificial Intelligence Act, and the governance of data flows among administrative bodies. In studying those various phenomena, she analyses how the expansion of the European Union into new domains affects the concepts that structure European Union law and the institutions that make it function.

Curtin has written extensively on phenomenon of differentiated integration, having coined the “Europe of bits and pieces” to refer to its piecemeal development after the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. After the 2009 Lisbon Treaty consolidated the European Union’s legal personality, she updated her description to a “a Union of variegated differentiation”, in which European Union law retains its unitary character even if some parts of it are more integrated than others. More generally, she has published research examining the transparency, the legitimacy, and the accountability of the European Union institutions as the roles of those institutions change over time.

In particular, Curtin analyses those concepts in the context of European Union’s executive power. Some of her most-cited works deal with the challenges involved in holding European institutions, agencies, and bodies accountable, such as the lack of information about their inner workings. According to Curtin, accountability mechanisms, and the access to public information needed for their functioning, are essential for the democratic legitimacy of those institutions. In addition to her scholarship on those topics, Curtin was also active in the drafting of the law governing access to records at the European Union level (Regulation (EC) 1049/2001).

Longicaudis (talk) 15:20, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: The proposed additions are sourced almost exclusively to the subject's own work and are thus not independent. For information to be included in the article it must be sourced to independent WP:RS sources which say those things about the subject, not examples of the subject's own work which relate to those areas. Axad12 (talk) 11:01, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• My conflict of interest:

As disclosed in my user page, I have been supervised by Deirdre Curtin in my PhD, and I am currently carrying out an external collaborator contract to, among other things, help the EUI Law Department improve its online presence.

• Why it should be changed: The current entry does not feature any headings. Adding them might make it more accessible for readers and facilitate edits.

• What I think should be changed (include citations): I would like to propose the following three headings: Career, Awards, and Academic work. To make this proposal as small as possible, I will not suggest any new content under them, just suggest how the current contents could be distributed.

(article begins)

Deirdre M. Curtin (born 17 January 1960) is a legal scholar who works in the area of law and governance of the European Union. Since 2015 she is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute of Florence.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Curtin studied law at University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. She was appointed to the faculty of the Europa Institute at Utrecht University. In 2003, she moved to the professorship of International and European Governance and the multidisciplinary Utrecht School of Governance. In 2008 she was appointed Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam, where in 2009 she founded the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance ACELG. Additionally for many years she was visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Curtin's specialist fields are European law and governance of the European Union. She studies phenomena such as democracy, legitimacy and accountability.

Since 2003 Curtin is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the first woman to be appointed a member of the academy in the section law. In 2007, she won the Spinozapremie, the first time it was awarded to a lawyer. In May 2021, she was made a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Longicaudis (talk) 10:30, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• My conflict of interest: As disclosed in my user page, I have been supervised by Deirdre Curtin in my PhD, and I am currently carrying out an external collaborator contract to, among other things, help the EUI Law Department improve its online presence.

• Why it should be changed: There is a "citation needed" tag for the subject's areas of specialisation. To address that, would it be possible to link to the award of her Spinoza prize, which lists the reasons why the NWO granted her the award?

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

Reference

Longicaudis (talk) 10:38, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• My conflict of interest: As disclosed in my user page, I have been supervised by Deirdre Curtin in my PhD, and I am currently carrying out an external collaborator contract to, among other things, help the EUI Law Department improve its online presence.

• Why it should be changed: Previous discussions in this talk page have mentioned that it was unclear why the subject would meet WP:NACADEMIC. While that problem seems to be solved, the article might still benefit from some description of why this scholar has received the cited awards and overall notability.

• What I think should be changed (include citations): Building on feedback from my previous edit request, the following sentences focus on claims made by secondary sources in the field that are both independent and WP:RS. Each claim will be presented under a separate heading, so that they might be discarded or accepted individually. If the proposal made above of creating new headings is accepted, this should likely go under Academic work.

Curtin has written extensively on phenomenon of differentiated integration, having coined the term “Europe of bits and pieces” to refer to its piecemeal development after the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.

Curtin is known as a promoter of the use of empirical methods in research about European Union law.

Curtin's work on European Union law has been highly cited, with over 7000 references indexed on Google Scholar. Longicaudis (talk) 11:11, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]