Ulla Neergaard

Ulla Neergaard is Professor of EU Law at the University of Copenhagen and publishes widely within that area of law. Ulla was appointed as a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2009. She was initially made Professor of EU Market Law and subsequently became Professor of EU Law. Prior to that, she had been Professor of Competition Law at the Copenhagen Business School. In 2015-16, she was Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty at Oxford University and a member of St John’s College. Ulla obtained her PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. Ulla has held several appointments as an “expert member” to several boards/committees (among others the Danish Council of Competition and the Danish Energy Regulatory Authority). Most recently she has been a member of the Appeals Permission Board (i.e. “Procesbevillingsnævnet”). She presently performs the function as alternate in the board of directors of the Danish Court Administration (i.e. “Domstolsstyrelsen”). Ulla was the President of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE) from 2013-14 and organised the FIDE-Congress in 2014. Ulla has published widely in various areas of EU Law and has been involved in several larger research projects. Ulla is a member of the advisory boards of the Common Market Law Review and the Nordic Journal of European Law, and is a member of the editorial board of “Europarättsligt Tidskrift”. She is often used as a peer reviewer, among others for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. She also acts as an assessor of PhD theses and in relation to senior academic appointments e.g. professors. Ulla is responsible of many of the EU-law courses (BA and MA) at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen, which mainly focus on the internal market.