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Ellen Vos is a Full Professor and Key Domain Chair in European Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. She is affiliated with the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and Studio Europa Maastricht, where she leads research on integration, differentiation, and flexibility in EU law and policy. Her work critically examines EU executive rulemaking, comitology, regulatory governance, and the interface between law and science in EU decision-making.
Her research interests span a broad range of EU legal topics, with a strong focus on regulatory governance, differentiation and flexibility in EU law, comitology, judicial review of science-based measures, and EU constitutional architecture. She explores how EU institutions manage regulatory complexity, ensure democratic accountability, and respond to scientific uncertainty, particularly in areas like food safety and environmental policy.
The trends in her recent publications reveal a sustained engagement with the constitutional and procedural foundations of EU executive power, especially through the evolution of comitology and delegated acts. Her work increasingly focuses on transparency, independence, and democratic legitimacy in EU agencies such as EFSA, and the role of courts in reviewing scientific expertise. The interdisciplinary nature of her research connects legal doctrine with governance theory, risk regulation, and policy analysis.
Ellen Vos has been actively involved in organizing academic events, including the 28th Ius Commune Conference in 2024, and has contributed to PhD supervision and assessment committees. She has collaborated extensively with scholars such as Guido Bellenghi and others in the field of EU law.
She has participated in numerous academic activities, including organizing workshops on responsible innovation and presenting on independence policies at EU agencies. Her work bridges academic scholarship with real-world policy challenges in the European Union.
