Dr Maaike Geuens LLM

Bio

Maaike Geuens is a lecturer at Tilburg University. She successfully defended her PhD in May 2021, which focused on the European Citizens’ Initiative and its impact on the democratic functioning of the European Union.

She conducts research in European law and comparative constitutional law and has taught courses on European law, coached moot courts, comparative constitutional law and legal methodology.

She is a member of the Centre for Direct Democracy Studies, University of Białystok, and a voluntary researcher at the University of Antwerp. and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Studies in 2018 and Karl Franzens University (Austria) in 2016.

Interests: European Policy, European Institutions, Participation, Democracy, Citizens' Initiative

Courses

• Moot Court Study of Law
• Moot Court Study of Law
• GLB: Constitutional Law

Recent publications

1. Towards a European Ethics and Integrity Body: Analyzing the European …

   Geuens, M. (2024). Towards a European Ethics and Integrity Body: Analyzing the European Commission's 2023 Proposal. IRSPM.

2. COVID-19 and the shift towards citizens' panels

   Geuens, M. (2023). COVID-19 and the shift towards citizens' panels. In B. Mathieu, & G. Katrougalos (Eds.), The crisis of liberal democracy: Diagnostics and therapies (pp. 139-151). (Ius Comparatum). Intersentia Publishing.

3. The conference on the future of Europe - Bringing the EU closer to it…

   Geuens, M. (2023). The conference on the future of Europe: Bringing the EU closer to its citizens? In D. Jancic (Ed.), The changing role of citizens in EU democratic governance (pp. 149-168). (Modern Studies of European Law). Bloomsbury Publishing.

4. Citizens panels in Europe - The case of the Conference on the Future …

   Geuens, M. (2022). Citizens panels in Europe: The case of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Paper presented at Next Generation Deliberation Celebration, Leuven, Belgium.

5. Het Europees burgerinitiatief - Oude (nationale) wijn in nieuwe Europ…

   Geuens, M. (2022). Het Europees burgerinitiatief: Oude (nationale) wijn in nieuwe Europese zak? Sociaal-economische wetgeving SEW: Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht, 2022(11), 500-511. Article 165. https://www.uitgeverijparis.nl/scripts/read_article_pdf?id=1001645326