Claudio Matera Editor

Maria Fletcher is Senior Lecturer in European Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests lie in the field of EU AFSJ law and EU constitutional law more generally. She is co-author of the first book published in English on EU Criminal Law and Justice (Edward Elgar, 2008, with Robin Lööf and William Gilmore) and has undertaken funded research and published widely on EU criminal, immigration and asylum and citizenship law.

Ester Herlin-Karnell is the Co-director of the VU Centre for European Legal Studies and Professor and Research Chair in EU Constitutional Law and Justice. She holds a DPhil from Oxford University. She has published widely on AFSJ law. Her recent publications include a monograph on the Constitutional Dimension of European Criminal Law (Hart Publishing, 2012).

Claudio Matera is Assistant Professor for the Chair of International and European Law and Government at the University of Twente (NL). His research and publica- tions focus on the external dimension of the AFSJ.