Helle Krunke

CV

Education

2003: Ph.d., University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

1999: Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

1990 - 1992: Student of Actuarial Science, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Copenhagen

1990: Left upper secondary school (mathematical/physics line)

Appointments

2016-: Head of the PhD School, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

2012-2015: Head of Centre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies (CECS)

2010-: Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2007-2010: Associate professor of Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2003-2007: Assistant professor of Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2002-2003: Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

1999-2002: PhD fellowship in Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

1999: Academic officer, Ministry for Economic Affairs

Visiting scholarships etc.

2016: International Chair, Institute for Political Science, LUISS, Rome, Italy

2007: Visiting fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy

2000-2001: Visiting Academic, University of Bristol, England

Research supervision

2012: Director of the Centre for European Constitutionalization and Security (CECS), University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law (in 2014 the name of the centre was changed to Centre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies (CECS))

2010-11: Management course in management development at the University of Copenhagen for course supervisors and research managers

2010-: Member of the management for the research centre Centre for European Constitutionalization and Security (CECS), University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, responsible for research coordination and external funding

2010-: Coordinator for the research group on European integration and cooperation, CECS

2007-2008: Member of the steering committee for the interdisciplinary research project "Media, Europeanisation, Democracy and Culture (MEDEC)", University of Copenhagen

2007-2008: Member of the steering committeee for the interdisciplinary research project "Europeanization, welfare and democracy (EWED)", University of Copenhagen

2007: Project coordinator for the interdisciplinary research project ”The Challenges of Globalization”,  University of Copenhagen, (one of the representatives of the Faculty of Law)

Course supervision

Course supervisor for the course "Constitutional Law and EU Constitutional Law, institutions", (2011 curriculum)

Course responsible for four MA-courses within constutional law, EU-law and international law.

External assignments and reserach network

2018-: First Vice President and member of the Excecutive Committee for International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL): http://www.iacl-aidc.org/en/.

2018-: Member of The Advisory Committee on Religious Communities

2015-: Member of the research network IMODEV (L'Institut du Monde et du government, University of Sorbonne) - Improving Public Policies in a Digital World. Member of the Scientific Board.

2014-: Member of the Excecutive Committee for International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL): http://www.iacl-aidc.org/en/

2013-: Appointed as substitute for the Election Board by the Ministry of of Economic Affairs and the Interior

Internal assignments and administration

2015-: Member of the Academic Board of EURECO (inter-faculty network on reserach in EU).

2013-14: Member of the appointment committee for the position as dean for the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2012-: Member of the Academic Council, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2012: Mentor in the apprenticeship mentor scheme at the University of Copenhagen

2010: Member of the KUA3-user group, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2010: Mentor in the mentor scheme for young women researchers, University of Copenhagen

2009-12: Member of the Academic Council, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2008-2009: Member of the committee concerning qualification requirements for associate professors and professors, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2008-2009: Mentor in the mentor scheme for young women researchers, University of Copenhagen

2007: Member of the committee concerning decentralised organization of the technical administrative staff, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2006-2009: Member of the Academic Council, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2006-2009: Member of the work environment committee, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

2006: Member of a task force appointed by the dean concerning the organization of the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

1999-2000: Deputy member of the PhD board of studies, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

Assessment committees

2016: Member of assessment committee for a position as professor, University of Oslo, Norway

2015: Member of assessment committe for a position as associate profeaaor, University of Southeren Denmark

2015: Chairman of assesment of PhD thesis in EU Constitutional Law, University of Reykjavik, Iceland

2012-13: Member of the assessment committee set up for the appointment of a position as associate professor at the University of Oslo, Norway

2012: Member of the assessment committee for a title of reader at the University of Uppsala, Sweden

2012: Chairperson of the PhD assessment committee, University of Reykjavik, Iceland

2008-: Assessed a great number of applications for PhD positions

PhD supervision

2017-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Katarina Hovden on the project 'Balancing the rights of nature and human rights'

2016-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius (co-supervisor Catheringe Jacquesson) 

2015-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Sune Klinge on the project ‘The horizontal effect of European Union law from a national Danish perspective’

2013-: 2013-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Graham Butler on the project: Parliamentary involvement in the European Foreign and Security Policy (national and EU level)

2010-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Desmond Johnson on the project: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact the Lisbon Treaty has on the Institutional balance between EU Competence and Member State Sovereignty

2009-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Urska Sadl on the project: Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice: Making a Case for Precedent

Assistant professor supervision

2014-: Supervisor for assistant professor Ph.D. Roberta Mungiano (together with Morten Broberg)

2010: Supervisor for assistant professor, PhD Bart Van Vooren

International expert testimony

2010: Contributed to an academic study at Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK,

with the title: Referendum Pledges of National Governments on European Integration

2010: Contributed to an academic study at Maastricht University with the title: Research on the Procedural Embedding of Constitutional Review

2009: Asked to give evidence to the House of Lords, UK, (for the report "Codecision and National

Parliamentary Scrutiny". See House of Lords, European Union Committee, 17th Report, Session 2008-2009)

International who’s who

2011-: Entrant in "World’s Who’s Who of Women", International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England

2010-: Entrant in "Who’s Who in the World", N.J., USA.

2010-: Entrant in "2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 21st Century, 2010", (and selected for "Top 100 Professionals 2010") International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England

Primary fields of research

Constitutional Law

Comparative Constitutional Law

EU Constitutional Law

EU Law 

Current research

Selected invited paper presentations: University of Oxford (2015 and 2019), University of Sorbonne (2014, 2015 and 2016), European University Institute (2014, 2016 and 2018), University College London (2019), LUISS (2015, 2016 and 2017), University of Kent (2015 and 2018), University of Oslo (2015 and 2016), University of Sienna (2017), Foundation for European Progressive Studies & Sheffield Political Economy Reserach Institute & Policy Network, Brussels (2017), City University of Hong Kong (2017), University of Melbourne (2017), University of New South Wales (2017) and IACL conference in Shanghai (2018).

Research topics include:

European integration

Solidarity (fortcoming book at Cambridge University Press on 'Transantional Solidarity. Concept, Challenges and Opportunities')

Demographic challenges, social and pension welfare reforms, generational justice and democracy

Constitutional identity - contributing to a.o. a resarch project on 'Constitutional Identity in a Europe of Multilevel Constitutionalism' led by Prof. Christian Calliess, Freie Universität, Berlin

Developments in Europe towards more direct demoracy

Impact of digitalization on democracy and Constitutional Law in general - member of the Scientific Board of the reserach network IMODEV - Improving Public Policies in a Digital World, Universuty of Sorbonne

Constitutional change - formal and informal (member of Research Group on Constitution Making and Constitutional Change, under IACL)

Rule of Law (member of Research Group on Rule of Law Tradtions of the World, under IACL)

Judges as guardians of constitutionalism and human rights - cooperation between CECS and EUI, Forence, Italy:  https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/judges-as-guardians-of-constitutionalism-and-human-rights.

Contributing to EU reserach project on 'The Role and of Future of National Constitututions in European and Global Governance' led by Anneli Albi, University of Kent, UK, financed by the ERC. 

Comparative Nordic Constitutional Law:  https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-nordic-constitutions-9781509910946/.

Textbook in institutional Constitutional Law and EU Constitutional Law

Referee/review:

Helle Krunke performs reviews for international publishers and international journals such as European Constitutional Law Review (CUP) and European Political Science Review (CUP). 

Teaching

Course supervisor "Constitutional Law and EU Constitutional Law, institutions", second year, BA

Course supervisor for the following master courses: Advanced EU Constitutional Law, EU International Relations Law, International Diplomatic Law and Praktisk forfatningsret i en politisk verden, MA

Lectures in “Constitutional Law and EU Constitutional Law, institutions”, lectures, second year

Short presentation

Head of the PhD School, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Responsible for "Institutional Constitutional Law and EU Constitutional Law", 2nd year, and a number of master courses.

First Vice President and member of the Excecutive Committee for International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL): http://www.iacl-aidc.org/en/.

Danish partner and teamleader in the Horizon2020 project DEMOS on 'Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe': https://demos-h2020.eu/en/.

https://demos-h2020.eu/en/.

Danish partner and teamleader in the Jean Monet Network 'BRIDGE' on the future of the European Union: https://bridgenetwork.eu/. 

PI for the NOS-HS-funded network 'CONNOR 2030: Constitutionalism in the Nordics' on current constitutional challenges: Digitalization, climate change and migration.