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Peter L. Lindseth

Professor Lindseth teaches Administrative Law, Torts, European Union Law, and International Business Transactions. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Cornell, and a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia (in European history). Professor Lindseth’s research focuses on the historical evolution of the administrative state in the twentieth century as well as the relationship of administrative governance to the process of European integration. Professor Lindseth has served as Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies and as a lecturer at the Academy of European Law (both at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy), as well as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France. Prior to coming to Connecticut, Professor Lindseth was Research Scholar and Associate Director of the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School, where he was also an Associate-in-Law (teaching fellow). In addition to several graduate fellowships in history and the social sciences, Professor Lindseth was a Chateaubriand Fellow at the French Conseil d’Etat, France’s supreme administrative court, in 1994-95. Before entering graduate school in history, Professor Lindseth was a litigation associate with Shearman & Sterling and Rogers & Wells, both in New York, where his matters concentrated primarily in the banking and insurance sectors.

Professor Lindseth’s articles include "The Paradox of Parliamentary Supremacy: Delegation, Democracy, and Dictatorship in Germany and France, 1920s-1950s," 113 Yale Law Journal 1341 (2004); "The Contradictions of Supranationalism: Administrative Governance and Constitutionalization in European Integration since the 1950s," 37 Loyola-Los Angeles Law Review 363 (2003) [invited contribution to symposium on "The Emerging Transnational Constitution"]; and "Democratic Legitimacy and the Administrative Character of Supranationalism: The Example of the European Community," 99 Columbia Law Review 628 (1999). Professor Lindseth is also co-editor (with George Bermann and Matthias Herdegen) of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2000)

Recent Courses

• International Business Trans (Spring 2007)
• Administrative Law (Fall 2006)
• Torts (Fall 2006)
• International Business Trans (Spring 2006)
• Administrative Law (Fall 2005)
• Torts (Fall 2005)