The EU in Global Governance: Player or Plaything?

<strong>Centre for European Studies School of International Studies, JNU &amp; Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU</strong> a lecture by <strong>Prof Dr Jan Wouters</strong> Jean Monnet Chair, Director, Institute for International Law, &amp; Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium) Topic :<strong> The EU in Global Governance: Player or Plaything?</strong> Date: <strong> Thursday, 8 January 2015</strong> Jan Wouters is Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven. He is also Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris), Luiss University (Rome) and the College of Europe (Bruges). He is Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations and editorial board member in ten international journals. He has published widely on international, EU, corporate and financial law (including 50 books, 100 international journal articles and 150 chapters in international books). His recent books include The United Nations and the European Union (2006), Multilevel Regulation and the EU (2008), The Europeanisation of International Law (2008), European Constitutionalism Beyond Lisbon (2009),Upgrading the EU’s Role as Global Actor (2011), The European Union and Multilateral Governance (2012), International Prosecutors (2012), Informal International Lawmaking (2012), Private Standards and Global Governance (2012), China, the European Union and Global Governance (2012), The EU’s Role in Global Governance (2013), National Human Rights Institutions in Europe (2013) and The Law of EU External Relations (2013).