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Dr Carolyn Moser heads the research group borderlines, which investigates the governance credentials of (novel) EU security policies. She is also a Lecturer in Lille (Catholic University) as well as in Trier. Prior to joining the Max Planck Institute as a PhD candidate (2013–17) and later as a Senior Researcher (2017–19), Carolyn was a Research Fellow at the Basel Institute on Governance (2011–13) and also worked as an assistant at the University of Basel (2011). She held visiting researcher positions at the EUI in Florence (2016) and at the LMU in Munich (2020), and was appointed as Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration in Hamburg in 2019.
Carolyn researches in the fields of international law and European law, with a focus on security and defence. She is particularly interested in how European actors face new security challenges related, inter alia, to border management, cyber resilience,and global health, and how, in turn, this (re)configures the legal and institutional framework in place. Her key peer reviewed publications include a monograph on Accountability in EU Security in Defence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and a co-edited book on The Legal Framework of the OSCE (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Trained in law and political science at Sciences Po (Paris) and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA), Carolyn holds a PhD from Utrecht University (2018) with a thesis on EU civilian crisis management, for which she was awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. Her book Accountability in EU Security and Defence. The Law and Practice of Peacebuilding, which is based on her PhD thesis and was published in 2020 with Oxford University Press, won the 2020 ECA Award conferred by the European Court of Auditors for an academic contribution demonstrating the 'EU added value' in external action. Her academic recognitions furthermore include a multi-annual grant for a research group by the Max Planck Society under the Minerva Fast-Track scheme.
European security & defence
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Reviewed by Luigi Lonardo, Journal of Common Market Studies 6, 1636-1637 (2020)
Interviewee, radio feature (in German language) by Christian Jakob, RBB Kultur, 16.12.2020, audio recording
Contributor to a radio programme on the international law and politics edited by Brigitte Voykowitsch [in German], ORF Radiokolleg, 24 – 27 February 2020
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'The transnational politics of emergency', online workshop, speaker, WZB Berlin, 19.06.2020
'What Legal Framework for the OSCE?', a Book Launch Conversation with Nils Blokker, Cornelius von Friesendorf, Jan Klabbers and Carolyn Moser, Panel Chair, Berlin , 25.10.2019
ESIL Annual Conference, participant, Athens, 12.09.2019 - 14.09.2019
European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS), 3rd Annual Conference, speaker, Sciences Po, Paris, 27.06.2019 - 28.06.2019
'Areas of Exclusion'-conference of the Research Initiative on Migration (WiMi) of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, 17.06.2019
Workshop 'The European Union’s "New Defence Policy": European Military Integration in an Interdisciplinary Perspective', speaker, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, 17.01.2019 - 18.01.2019
'Max Planck Trialogue Workshop on the Law of Peace and War – Vol. IV: Intervention by Invitation', participant, Heidelberg, 08.11.2018 - 09.11.2018
'Le traité de Versailles. Regards franco-allemands en droit international à l'occasion du centenaire', participant, Strasbourg, 28.09.2018 - 29.09.2018
Franco-German colloquium 'Le droit à un recours effectif—regards croisés', presenter, Paris, 07.09.2018 - 08.09.2018
'Warum befolgen wir Recht? Rechtsverbindlichkeit und Rechtsbefolgung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive', participant, Heidelberg, 26.03.2018 - 27.03.2018
RENFORCE guest lecture by Dr. Florin Coman Kund on the new legal framework for Europol's international exchanges of data, commentator , Utrecht, 05.02.2018
'Conflict and Compromise—Between Law and Politics in EU Migration and Asylum Policies', Odysseus Annual Conference, speaker in the panel 'International Responsibility for the Cooperation of the EU and its Members States with the Libyan Coastguards?', Brussels, 01.02.2018
'Max Planck Trialogue Workshop on the Law of Peace and War—Vol. III: Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflict', participant, Berlin, 10.11.2017 - 11.11.2017
'The Politicization of Europe: Transnational Solidarity Conflicts and the Changing Structure of Economic Governance in the EU', Panel discussion with Anuscheh Farahat, Marius Hildebrand and Mark Dawson, participant, Berlin, 09.11.2017
'Constitutionality, powers and legitimacy of EU agencies or agency-like bodies', participant, Fiesole, 10.11.2016 - 11.11.2016
'Between Aspirations and Realities: Strengthening the Legal Framework of the OSCE', convener (together with Anne Peters and Mateja Steinbrück Platise), Berlin, 13.07.2016
PhD@maxlaw Workshop ‘16, 2nd Max Planck Young Legal Scholars’ Meeting, presenter (poster presentation), Hamburg, 12.05.2016 - 13.05.2016
UACES 45th Annual Conference, chair of the panel 'Transparency and Accountability in EU Decision‐making', Bilbao, 07.09.2015 - 09.09.2015
'Apprendre à repenser le droit international'—Masterclass with Professor Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, discussant, Heidelberg, 04.05.2015 - 06.05.2015
'NewGen Accountability Workshop' held by the Utrecht University School of Governance, presenter, Utrecht, 10.11.2014
'Cricital Studies of International Law'—Masterclass with Professor Martti Koskenniemi, presenter, Heidelberg, 29.04.2014 - 02.05.2014
'Gagner la paix : Approches vers une solution durable au Mali', colloque, participant, Berlin, 31.01.2014
'Rule of Law and Accountability in Peacekeeping'—German Peace Operations Research Workshop 2014, jointly organized by DGVN, FES and ZIF, participant, Berlin, 28.01.2014
'Good Accountability (and Governance) Workshop - New International Perspectives on Accountability at the USG', presenter, Utrecht, 13.12.2013
'Towards A Global History of International Law' (Institute for Advanced Study), workshop, participant, Berlin, 01.02.2013
20th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum—'Promoting Security and Stability through Good Governance', rapporteur, Prague, 12.09.2012 - 14.09.2012
Third Summer Academy Freiburg on the 'Dynamics of institutional change under the EU's toolkit of conditionality—Judicial reform and fighting corruption in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Turkey', panel chair, Freiburg (D), 31.08.2012 - 03.09.2012