Fabian Amtenbrink holds the chair of European Union law at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He obtained an LL.D. with distinction from the University of Groningen in 1998, reading under Laurence W. Gormley. He is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Assessor). His previous publications include The Democratic Accountability of Central Banks: A Comparative Study of the European Central Bank (1999), and contributions to many edited works and journals. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Western Ontario (January Term Professor) and at the Fudan University Shanghai (Visting Professor of European law).