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EU Law and Policy Analysis

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Leonard Schütte
Munich Security Conference
2
Joan Miró
University of Milan
3
Jesse Groenewegen
Utrecht University
4
Sivaram Cheruvu
The University of Texas at Dallas
5
Christian Freudlsperger
ETH Zurich
6
Diego Badell
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
7
Giulia Claudia Leonelli
Birkbeck, University of London
8
Jurgita Malinauskaitė
University of London
9
Cecilia Bellora
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
10
Joanna Piechucka
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Rising Stars Papers

1
When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy: The EU's Anti‐Coercion Instrument
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2024
37 cit.
2
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
Publius The Journal of Federalism|2024
29 cit.
3
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies
Journal of European Public Policy|2024
18 cit.
4
Wastewater Reuse in the EU and Southern European Countries: Policies, Barriers and Good Practices
Sustainability|2024
15 cit.
5
Pandemic bordering: domestic politicisation, European coordination, and national border closures in the COVID-19 crisis
Journal of European Public Policy|2024
11 cit.
6
Competition and Industrial Policies: Complementary Action for EU Competitiveness
Journal of Competition Law & Economics|2024
11 cit.
7
Do Preliminary References Increase Public Support for European Law? Experimental Evidence from Germany
International Organization|2024
10 cit.
8
Europe Re: the rise of the European reinsurance polity
Journal of European Public Policy|2024
10 cit.
9
The short-lived hope for contagion: Brexit in social media communication of the populist right
West European Politics|2024
9 cit.
10
Are Judges on <i>Per Curiam</i> Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Journal of Law and Courts|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Scherie Nicol
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques
2
Niamh Dunne
London School of Economics and Political Science
3
Miriam Köster
Universität Greifswald
4
Sandrino Smeets
Radboud University Nijmegen
5
Jennifer A. Hillman
Georgetown University
6
Justinas Mickus
University of Cambridge
7
Matteo Fiorini
University of Central Arkansas
8
Cristina Herghelegiu
Université Libre de Bruxelles
9
Daniella Elkan
Unknown
10
Roman Senninger
Aarhus University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Implementing the EU Climate Law via the ‘Fit for 55’ package
Oxford Open Energy|2022
107 cit.
2
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund
European Journal of Political Research|2022
53 cit.
3
Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia
The World Bank Economic Review|2022
24 cit.
4
Voluntary standards and the SDGs: Mapping public-private complementarities for sustainable development
Earth System Governance|2022
18 cit.
5
What makes policy complex?
Political Science Research and Methods|2023
15 cit.
6
Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews
British Journal of Political Science|2024
11 cit.
7
The Institutional Ingredients of Polycrisis Management: Unpacking European Council’s Handling of the Energy Crisis
Politics and Governance|2023
10 cit.
8
Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies
World Economy|2022
9 cit.
9
Once bitten, twice shy: The overgeneralization trap and epistemic learning after policy failure
Politics &amp Policy|2022
8 cit.
10
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2022
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Kalypso Nicolaïdis
European University Institute
2
Charles Edquist
Lund University
3
Petros C. Mavroidis
Columbia University
4
Thomas König
University of Mannheim
5
Michael Zürn
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
6
Sophie Meunier
Princeton University
7
Frank Schimmelfennig
ETH Zurich
8
Uwe Puetter
Central European University
9
Claudio M. Radaelli
University of Bradford
10
George Tsebelis
University of California, Los Angeles

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Veto Players. How Political Institutions Work
Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas|2003
3.4k cit.
2
Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism
British Journal of Political Science|1995
2.6k cit.
3
The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
International Organization|2001
1.4k cit.
4
Governance by conditionality: EU rule transfer to the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Journal of European Public Policy|2004
1.2k cit.
5
The Politics of International Regime Complexity
Perspectives on Politics|2009
978 cit.
6
Systems of Innovation: Perspectives and Challenges
Oxford University Press eBooks|2009
920 cit.
7
The choice of innovation policy instruments
Technological Forecasting and Social Change|2013
864 cit.
8
The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter
American Political Science Review|1994
785 cit.
9
Systems of Innovation Approaches – Their Emergence and Characteristics
Unknown Journal|2000
761 cit.
10
Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis
American Political Science Review|1999
629 cit.

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