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About the Author Pieter Jan Kuijper, Professor of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations, University of Amsterdam,Jan Wouters, Jean Monnet Chair and Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute forInternational Law, University of Leuven,Frank Hoffmeister, European Commission,Geert de Baere, Assistant Professor of EU Law and International Law at the Faculty of Law and Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven,Thomas Ramopoulos, Research Fellow,Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies; Doctoral Researcher, Institute for International Law, University of LeuvenProfessor Pieter Jan Kuijper returned to the University of Amsterdam (where he had previously been Professor of International Law and International Relations in the Political Science Department between 1984 and 1987) as Professor of the Law of International (Economic) Organizations in the faculty ofLaw in 2007. He has had a mixed career as an academic and a practitioner of International and European Law in the universities of Leiden and Amsterdam and in the European Commission and the WTO Secretariat. His most recent posts in international organizations have been Director of the Legal AffairsDivision of the WTO Secretariat (1999-2002) and Principal Legal Advisor and Director of the External Relations and Trade Division of the Legal Service of the European Commission (2002-2007).Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters (LLM Yale) is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair of EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, an instituterecognized as Centre of Excellence which furthers interdisciplinary research on the EU and global governance. He is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), at Sciences Po (Paris), at th