Carolyn Moser

PhD, MA, Research Group Leader (Minerva Fast Track)

moser@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

Law and pratice of security policy and defence in Europe | Peace operations, with a focus on EU peacebuilding | Public governance, in particular accountability

Academic Career:

Current Academic Positions

• Since 2019 | Leader of the Research Group borderlines on novel security policy trends in Europe—Minerva Fast Track scheme of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
• Since 2018 | Lecturer, Université Catholique de Lille, France

Past Academic Positions

• 2017–2019 | Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany; postdoctoral researcher in the group 'Shades of Illegality' (2018 – 2019)
• 2013–2017 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, PhD candidate
• 2011–2013 | Research Fellow, Basel Institute on Governance, Public Governance Division, Basel; in parallel (2011) Assistant to Prof. Anne Peters, University of Basel, Law Faculty, Switzerland

Recent Publications

• The Legal Framework of the OSCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 374 p. (editor with Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Anne Peters). available at CUP website
• Conceptualising accountability in the legal and institutional framework of the OSCE. In: The Legal Framework of the OSCE, Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Carolyn Moser, Anne Peters (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, 273-293. Pre-print version
• Legal uncertainty and indeterminacy—immutable characteristics of the OSCE?. In: The Legal Framework of the OSCE, Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Carolyn Moser, Anne Peters (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, 3-25 (with Anne Peters). Pre-print version
• Loin de l’Union, loin des juges?—Sur les voies de recours juridictionnelles dans le cadre des activités de sécurité et de défense extraterritoriales de l’Union européenne. In: Zugang zu nationalen und internationalen Gerichten gegen das Handeln der Exekutive, Layla Kristina Jaber, Stefanie Lüer, Anne-Marie Thévenot-Werner (eds.). Schwarze Reihe. Springer, Heidelberg 2019, forthcoming.
• The legal framework of the OSCE—an interdisciplinary inquiry. In: MPS Research report 2018. Max Planck Society, Munich 2019 (with Anne Peters, Mateja Steinbrück Platise). Online version (German)

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Bring claims if you can—On the intricate arrangements for claims arising from extraterritorial EU security and defence activities. In: ZaöRV 3, 575-579 (2018).

EU Civilian Crisis Management—Law and Practice of Accountability. -, Utrecht/Heidelberg, 2018, 336 p. PhD thesis

¿Union de droit, Union de sécurité? Sobre la interacción entre actuación interior y exterior respecto a los valores y normas de la UE. In: La jurisdicción constitucional en la tutela de los Derechos Funda-mentales de la Unión Europea, J.I. Ugartemendia/ A. Saiz Arnaiz/ M. Morales Antoniazzi (ed.). Instituto Vasco de Administración Pública; MPIL, Oñati 2017, 91-130.

Peace—Europe's Polyphonic Promise. In: MaxPlanckResearch 2, 10-15 (2015). Article in pdf-version

Revisiting the Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy: novel approaches and complementary insights. In: Public Administration 93 (1), 255-261 (2015). DOI: 10.1111/padm.12150

Conflict of interests of government members and the risk of corruption: An assessment of pre-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. In: Corruption and Conflict of Interests; A Comparative Law Approach, J.-B. Auby/ E. Breen/ T. Perroud (ed.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2014, 124-138. DOI: 10.4337/9781781009352

Blogposts

• Two Become One? On the Civil–Military Amalgamation of the CSDP. Verfassungsblog, 30.03.2019. verfassungsblog.com
• Curtailing (informal) power—accountability lessons from the civilian dimension of EU security and defence. EU Law Enforcement, 31.03.2018. www.eulawenforcement.com
• Awakening dormant law—or the invocation of the European mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks. Verfassungsblog, 18.11.2015, also published on www.voelkerrechtsblog.com. www.verfassungsblog.com
• French Constitutional Council puts an end to the plurality of offices, 12.3.2014. www.verfassungsblog.com

Working Papers

• Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict: Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018 (with Christian Marxsen, Anne Peters, et alii). MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-19
• Conceptualising accountability in the legal and institutional framework of the OSCE. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018. MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-17
• Legal uncertainty and indeterminacy—immutable characteristics of the OSCE?. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018. MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-16

Presentations

Teaching

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Honours