Helle Krunke

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Education, academic degress, and honorary titles

2023: Jur Dr. h.c., University of Lund

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

2020-: Head of Centre for Eueopean and Comparatice Legal Studies (CECS), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

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

2018-2021: Danish partner and teamleader in the Horizon2020 project DEMOS on 'Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe': https://demos-h2020.eu/en/.

2019-2022: Danish partner and teamleader in the Jean Monet Network 'BRIDGE' on the future of the European Union: https://bridgenetwork.eu/. 

2019-2022: PI for the NOS-HS-funded network 'CONNOR 2030: Constitutionalism in the Nordics' on current constitutional challenges: Digitalization, climate change and migration. 

2016-2020: Head of the PhD School, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

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

2020: Member of the reform committee under the European Policy Committee, Danish Parliament 

2020: Member of international Panel which evaluates the Faculty of Law, University of Lund, Sweden.

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

2018-: Member of The Advisory Committee on Religious Communities

2018-: Assesses applications for the Norwegian Research Council.

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

2020-: Head od Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2017-2019: Member of a committee on excellence in research, appointed by the Vice Dean of Research, (produced a report), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

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

2016-: Member of the Management Group, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. 

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

2020: Member of assessment committee for position as associate professor, Uppsala University, Sweden. 

2020: Member of assessment committe for professorship, University of Agder, Norway.

2020: Member of employment committee for position as professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. 

2019: Member of assessment committee for PhD thesis, University of Sapienza, Rome.

2019: Member of assessment committee for PhD thesis, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

2019: Member of employment committee for associate professor/professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

2016-20: Member of five employment committees for PhD positions, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. 

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

2022-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Ricardo Andres Vasquez Dazarola on a porject on fake news and elections

2022-: Supervisor together with Eirik Holmøyvik for PhD fellow Axel Jonsson on a project on prereview of legislation, University of Bergen 

2021-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Emilie Topp Bluitgen on  a project on climate change and separtion of powers

2018-: Supervisor for PhD fellow Simon Drugda on the project 'Judicial Reputation'

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

2016-2018: Supervisor for PhD fellow Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius (co-supervisor Catherine Jacquesson) 

2015-2019: Supervisor for PhD fellow Sune Klinge on the project ‘The horizontal effect of European Union law from a national Danish perspective’

2013-2016: 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

2009-2012: 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

2021-: Post Doc Mikele Schultz-Knudsen

2020-: Tenure Track Adjunkt Sune Klinge 

2020-: Tenure Track Adjunkt Hanna Eklund

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