Peter Lindseth’s expertise lies at the intersection of comparative administrative law, European integration, international economic law, and the legal history of public governance. Researching in three languages (English, French, and German), Professor Lindseth develops new insights into the fields of historical institutionalism, principal-agent theory, and governance beyond the state with implications well beyond the case of European integration in which he specializes.

Much sought-after on both sides of the Atlantic, Professor Lindseth has served as a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, and the Université d'Aix-Marseille III. He has also served as a Daimler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Chatauebriand Fellow at the Conseil d’Etat in Paris (France’s supreme administrative court), a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton, and a Stipendiat at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt.

Despite the demands of scholarship and teaching, Professor Lindseth remains active in administrative and professional activities. He is the founding chair of the European Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the editor of the section’s new blog, europaeus|law. Professor Lindseth also contributes regularly to EUtopia Law, a London-based blog on the European Union. In addition, since 2012, he has been the director of International Programs at the Law School, in charge of both the U.S. Legal Studies LL.M. and the S.J.D. programs along with the Law School’s array of exchange and visiting scholar relationships. Professor Lindseth came to UConn from Columbia Law School, where he was associate director of the European Legal Studies Center, a teaching fellow (associate-in-law) and managing editor of The Columbia Journal of European Law. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in European history from Columbia.

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