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Teresa Cabrita

Professeure

SSH/IEEB Institute for European Studies Saint-Louis (IEE-SaintLouis)

SSH/IRIS Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire Saint-Louis (IRIS-L)

Teresa M. Cabrita is an Assistant Professor of EU Law at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels. Before joining UCLouvain, Teresa worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History and Theory of Law (Frankfurt), as a research associate at the KU Leuven (Belgium), and as a senior project manager for European projects in the field of judicial training. Teresa holds a PhD in European and International Law from the University of Amsterdam (2023). Her research interests include the relationship between EU and international law, EU external relations law, EU legal history and European and international disaster law. Teresa's work has been published in the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, European Papers, Europe and the World: A law review and European Constitutional Law Review.

Year Label School
2023 PhD in Law Universiteit van Amsterdam (Pays-Bas)
2010 Master of Laws (LLM) Leiden Universiteit (Pays-Bas)
2009 Licenciatura em direito NOVA School of Law (Portugal)
2025
Book chapter

Cabrita, T., Kassoti, E., Idriz, N., & et al. (2025). Introduction: The EU as a Regional International Organization. In by Eva Kassoti, Teresa Cabrita, Narin Idriz (Contributors) (ed.), The European Union and Regionalism: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives. Brill.


Monography

et al. (2025). The European Union and Regionalism: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives. Brill.


Conference paper

Cabrita, T. (2025). Untangling family bonds: natural disasters and EU emergency law. Workshop: EU Crises and Emergencies: What’s in a Name?, University of Maastricht.


Cabrita, T. (2025). Constitutional wiggle-room and judicial intervention: The role of the Court of Justice in (re)shaping EU powers with respect to natural disasters. ICON.S Benelux: Public Law in an Age of Contestation and Systemic Change, Brussels.


Cabrita, T., & et al. (2025). Non-traditional actors before the EU Courts. Brussels Forum on EU External Relations, Brussels.


Cabrita, T. (2025). The US-EU framework on an agreement on reciprocal, fair and balanced trade: How much safer is the EU? The US-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair and Balanced Trade: What Implications for the EU?, Brussels.


Working paper

Cabrita, T. (2025). Untangling Family Bonds: Natural Disasters and EU Emergency Law (EmergEU Working Paper Series 2/2025).


2024
Book chapter

Cabrita, T. (2024). The European Union’s Engagement with the United Nations International Law Commission: Process, Principles and Purpose. In Kathrin Maria Scherr, Erika de Wet (ed.), Assessing the International Law Commission: the past, present and future. Brill.


Learning units for 2025

Label Code
EU Legal System & Political System BEUA1003
EU Trade policy BEUA1005
Internal Market & Competition Law BEUA1007
Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights BEUA1008
Training and master¿s thesis (Training supervision & Master's thesis) BEUA2006
Environmental Security BEUP2007

FSR Seedfund 2024 - two-years starting grant for doctoral supervision in the field of EU disaster law.