European Union law
Prof. Goudappel has over 25 years of experience in teaching and research in the field of European Union Law and obtained her PhD in 1997 from Erasmus University Rotterdam with a dissertation on European law entitled Powers and Control Mechanisms in European Federal Systems. She has taught all aspects of European law and has published on many subtopics. For example, in 2012 she received the LISBOAN Research Award 2012 together with Sarah Wolff and Jaap de Zwaan for ‘outstanding research’ on the Treaty of Lisbon. She was also regularly interviewed by the Dutch national radio station Radio 1 about Brexit.
She taught European law for many years at Erasmus School of Law and since 2016 at the University of Curaçao Dr Moises da Costa Gomez. She was also a visiting professor at many foreign universities, including the University of Baltimore in the United States, Renmin University in China, and the Université de Bordeaux IV in France. She gave presentations and lectures all over the world.
European Union Law: Countries and Territories Overseas
Her many years of experience in teaching European law at the University of Curaçao earned Prof. Goudappel a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Trade Law in the Overseas Territories at the Erasmus School of Law in 2012. She has written several publications on developments in the field of EU overseas countries and territories and teaches an elective course on this subject. She is working on a handbook on EU overseas territories law, which is due to be published in 2025.
European Union Law: European Citizenship
Prof Goudappel has published several articles on European citizenship and aspects of European citizenship. In 2010, she published the book ‘The Effects of EU Citizenship’. Since then, she has published and spoken on several aspects, including electoral law, the position of EU citizens in overseas countries and territories, and the relationship with asylum and migration.
European Union Law: Asylum and Migration
The subjects of asylum and migration are relatively recent developments in European law within the area of Freedom, Security and Justice. As early as 2011, Prof. Goudappel published the book ‘Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm’ together with Sarah Wolff and Jaap de Zwaan, and the volume ‘The Future of Asylum in the European Union: Problems, Proposals and Human Rights’ together with Helena Raulus. Since then, she has lectured and published extensively on these subjects, including together with social scientists. She is currently studying asylum and migration in the European Union in comparison with the treaties as they apply and are applied in the Caribbean. For example, in 2021 she published the book ‘The rights of undocumented children in Curaçao, a joint responsibility’ together with Chrisje Sandelowsky and Ton Liefaard.
Constitutional law
Since her PhD in 1997, which was a comparative constitutional law on the federal content of the European Union, Prof. Goudappel has published and lectured extensively on Dutch and Kingdom constitutional law as well as on comparative constitutional law. Her focus is on Kingdom relations, techniques of comparative constitutional law, fundamental rights and constitutional review.
Treaties
In addition to the European Treaties, Prof. Goudappel has specialized in treaties related to her general public law research interests. She has also published on treaty conclusion and the territorial effect of treaties, in particular where the effect for the various countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is concerned.
Istanbul Convention
One of the treaties that Prof. Goudappel has researched in recent years is the Istanbul Convention on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Together with Annemarie Marchena-Slot, she conducted an extensive baseline measurement for the Curaçao Ministry of SOAW on the possible future effects for Curaçao. She has also spoken about this at conferences.
Human rights
In addition to her interest in the legislation and case law on asylum and migration and the EU Treaties, the relevant parts of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as treaties on asylum and migration, in particular the operation of the UN Refugee Convention, fall within the expertise of Prof. Goudappel.
Education law
Prof Goudappel has been active for many years within the Education Law and Policy Association and has published extensively on higher education law, both nationally and in Europe.
