Francesca Bignami

Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Box 90360, Durham, NC 27708
Tel: (919) 613-7288
Fax: (919) 613-7231
bignami@law.duke.edu

Director
Duke University Center for European Studies
John Hope Franklin Center
2204 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27708

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
  J.D., 1996.
• University of Oxford, Balliol College, Oxford, England
  M.Sc., Sociology, 1992.
• Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Cambridge, MA
  A.B., magna cum laude, Social Studies, 1991.

Professional Experience

• Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
  Professor, 2005 to present, Associate Professor, 2003-2005, Assistant Professor, 2000-2003.
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
  Visiting Professor, fall 2006.
• Boston College School of Law, Newton, MA
  Visiting Professor, spring 2007.
• University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
  Lecture on comparative administrative law for Masters in Public Administration, spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
• Libera Università degli Studi Sociali, Rome, Italy
  Visiting Professor, spring 2005.
• Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC
  Associate, 1998-2000. Practiced in the areas of administrative, international trade, and aviation law.
• European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
  Dean Acheson Stage Program, fall 1997. Intern in the Chambers of Advocate General Philippe Léger.
• Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Washington, DC
  Law Clerk, 1996-1997.
• European Commission, Research Directorate-General, Brussels, Belgium
  Auxiliary Agent and Stagiaire, 1992-1993.

Awards and Fellowships

• Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies at Harvard University, 2005-2006. Conducted research on European privacy law and taught reading group at Harvard Law School on comparative privacy law.
• Fellowship in Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2005-2006 (declined).
• German Marshall Fund of the United States advanced research support, 2002-2003. Full-year grant for research on the impact of European Union law on national systems of constitutional and administrative law.
• Emile Noël Senior Fellow, 2002-2003. Fellowship for research on the European Union while in residence at the Jean Monnet Center at the New York University School of Law, New York City.
• Fulbright Scholar, 1998. Conducted independent research at the European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.

Publications

• European versus American Liberty: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of Antiterrorism Data Mining, 48 Boston College Law Review 609(2007).
• Privacy and Law Enforcement in the European Union: The Data Retention Directive, Chicago Journal of International Law (2007).
  Toward a Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks, Michigan Journal of International Law (2007).
• Protecting Privacy Against the Police in the European Union: The Data Retention Directive in Mélanges en l’Honneur de Philippe Léger: Le Droit à la Mesure de l’Homme (2006)
• Rethinking Interest Representation in the European Union, 26 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 439 (2006) (review essay).
• Creating European Rights: National Values and Supranational Interests, 11 Columbia Journal of European Law 241 (2005).
• The European Union’s New Ambitions, Remarks, 99 American Society of International Law Proceedings 363 (2005)
• Transgovernmental Networks vs. Democracy: The Case of the European Information Privacy Network, 26 Michigan Journal of International Law 807 (2005).
• Foreword, Administrative Law in the European Union, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (Winter 2004).
• Three Generations of Participation Rights Before the European Commission, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 61 (Winter 2004).
• The Challenge of Cooperative Regulatory Relations after Enlargement in Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union 97-140 (George Bermann & Katharina Pistor eds., 2004).
• Mixed Administration in the European Data Protection Directive: The Regulation of International Data Transfers, 1 Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico 31 (2004).
• Review of Theodora Th. Ziamou, Rulemaking, Participation and the Limits of Public Law in the USA
  and Europe and Edward C. Page, Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy-Making, 11 Social and Legal Studies 317 (2002).
• Transnational Civil Society Dialogues (with Steve Charnovitz) in Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (Mark A. Pollack & Gregory C. Shaffer eds., 2001).
• The Democratic Deficit in European Community Rulemaking: A Call for Notice and Comment in Comitology, 40 Harvard International Law Journal 451 (1999).
• Accountability and Interest Group Participation in Comitology: Lessons from American Rulemaking, European University Institute Working Paper, Robert Schuman Centre No. 99/3 (1999).

Publications in Italian

• Le reti trans-governative e la democrazia: Il caso della rete europea per la protezione dei dati personali in Il codice del trattamento dei dati personali 837 (V. Cuffaro, R. D'Orazio, & V. Ricciuto eds., 2007).
• Introduzione, Il procedimento amministrativo nel diritto europeo, Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, Quaderno n. 1 (Francesca Bignami & Sabino Cassese eds., 2004).
• Tre generazioni di diritti di partecipazione nei procedimenti amministrativi europei, Il Procedimento amministrativo nel diritto europeo, Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, Quaderno n. 1 (Francesca Bignami & Sabino Cassese eds., 2004).
• Review of Theodora Th. Ziamou, Rulemaking, Participation and the Limits of Public Law in the USA
  and Europe and Edward C. Page, Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy-Making, Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico (2002).

Works in Progress

• Civil Society and International Organizations: A Liberal Framework for Global Governance
• Implementation of the EU Data Protection Directive in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK

Invited Talks

• Towards a Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks, International Legal Studies Colloquium, Boston College School of Law, April 2007.
• European versus American Liberty: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of Antiterrorism Data Mining, Faculty Workshop, Boston College School of Law, March 2007.
• European versus American Liberty: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of Antiterrorism Data Mining, Faculty Workshop, Boston University Law School, March 2007.
• European versus American Liberty: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of Antiterrorism Data Mining, Faculty Workshop, Harvard Law School, November 2006.
• Data Protection and Human Rights, Seventeenth Session of the Academy of European Law (Human Rights Law), European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, June 2006.
• Civil Society and International Organizations, Faculty Workshop, University of Virginia School of Law, February 2006.
• The Comparative Law of Civil Society: Interest Groups, Intermediate Associations, or Citizen Groups?, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, September 2005.
• Civil Society and International Organizations, Harvard Law School Workshop on New Scholarship in International Law, September 2005.
• Comparative Legal Education, University of Bari, Faculty of Law, Italy, June 2005.
• Civil Society and Global Governance, Faculty Workshop at the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, February 2005.
• Three Generations of Participation Rights in European Administrative Proceedings, Hauser Colloquium: Theorizing Europe, NYU School of Law, February 2004.
• Administering European Privacy Policy, Columbia European Law Center, January 2003.
• The Concept of Independence in EU Law, Emile Noel Fellows Forum, NYU School of Law, September 2002.
• Legal Education in Comparative Perspective, University of Rome III, Faculty of Law, June 2002.

Conference Presentations

• The Americanization of European Law? Some Contrary Evidence from the Data Protection Directive, Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, May 2007.
• European Rights: Change and Continuity, Conference on European Constitutionalism: National, Transnational, and International Perspectives, University of Washington, April 2007.
• The U.S. Privacy Act in Comparative Perspective, Public Seminar on PNR/SWIFT/Safe Harbour: Are Transatlantic Data Protected?, European Parliament, March 2007.
• The Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks, Symposium on State Intelligence Gathering and International Law, University of Michigan Law School, February 2007.
• Two Worlds of Democracy: Accountability in French and American Administrative Law, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2007.
• Commentator on Accountability and Global Public Regulation, Second Global Administrative Law Seminar, Viterbo, Italy, June 2006.
• Commentator on Cindy Skach, Adjudicating Difference: Judicial Review and Religious Expression in the European Union, Center for European Studies at Harvard University, April 2006.
• Creating European Rights: National Values and Supranational Interests, Workshop on Institutional Change and the Law, Northwestern University, April 2006.
• Commentator on Enrico Grosso, European Citizenship and Democratic Life in the European Union, European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, March 2006.
• Panelist, Extraordinary Measures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences on the Invasiveness of Police Practices, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2006.
• Panelist, Participation in the Rulemaking in the Information Age: Lessons from Europe for the United States, 2005 Administrative Law Conference of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Washington, D.C., November 2005.
• Commentator on Rick Lawson, The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Preserving Human Rights in a Single Area, Seminar on Reflexive Governance, Columbia Law School, November 2005.
• Commentator on Peter Strauss, Rulemaking in the Ages of Globalization and Information, Columbia Law School Faculty Lunch Series, November 2005.
• Executive Federalism: Effectiveness and Legitimacy, American Society of Comparative Law 2005 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2005.
• Civil Society and International Organizations, Vanderbilt Law School International Legal Theory Roundtable, September 2005.
• Panelist, The EU’s New Ambitions, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2005.
• Creating Rights in the Age of Global Governance, Conference on Administrative Law and Process in the U.S. and Abroad: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, University of San Diego School of Law and University of California, San Diego Department of Political Science, January 2005.
• Creating Rights in the Age of Global Governance, European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, October 2004.
• Chair, Panel on The Transatlantic Dimension: The Death Penalty, American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting, University of Michigan, October 2004.
• The Right to Civil Society Participation in European Governance, Conference on Back to Government? The Pluralistic Deficit in Decisionmaking Process and Before the Courts, University of Trento, Italy, June 2004.
• Participation Rights in European Administrative Proceedings, Conference on Administrative Procedure in European Law, University of Rome, La Sapienza, April 2003.
• The Challenge of Cooperative Regulatory Relations after Enlargement, Conference on Law and Governance in an Enlarged Europe, Columbia University, April 2003.
• Commentator on Gráinne de Búrca, The EU Open Method of Coordination: Implications for Global Governance, Globalization and Its Discontents Colloquium, New York University School of Law, March 2003.
• Independence and the Proper Place for Politics, Conference on Regulating Transnational Markets: Between State Sovereignty, Integrated Markets, and Transnational Communities, New York University School of Law, September 2002.
• Judicial Federalism in the EU, Workshop on Federalism and Multi-Level Governance, Center for European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 2002.
• The Reformation of European Administrative Law, Biennial Conference of the European Community Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2001.
• The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, Workshop on The New Transatlantic Agenda at Five: A Critical Assessment, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy, April 2001.
• WTO Appellate Body Report on Asbestos, Science and International Trade Conference, Suffolk Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2000.
• Transnational Civil Society Dialogues, Civil Society Panel, Academic Council on the United Nations System, Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway, June 2000.

Other Professional Activities

• Chair, U.S. Advisory Group to Part Two (“Rulemaking”) of ABA Project on EU Administrative Law & Process (2004-present).
• Member, American Society of Comparative Law Prize Committee (2004-present).
• Member, European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Dissertation Prize Committee (2004-2005).
• Member, German Marshall Fund Review Committee for Research Fellowship Program (2004-2005).
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Electronic Privacy Information Center (2003-present).

Languages and Professional Qualifications

• Fluent Italian and French. Member of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts and New York Bars.