David O'Keeffe

Who is David O'Keeffe?

David O'Keeffe is Emeritus Professor of European Law in the University of London and a part-time European administrative law judge. He is Of Counsel on EU Affairs at the international law firm Salans. Together with an academic career, he has practiced EU law since 1984, as associate and Counsel with Coudert Brothers and Hammonds LLP. He is one of the leading practitioners of EU law, specializing in State aid and public procurement .

He was Professor of European Law at University College London and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Laws. He was Professor of European Law and head of the Department of Law, University of Durham 1990-1993, and a Governor of Trevelyan College, University of Durham. He is a visiting professor at numerous Universities including University College Dublin, the University of Siena and the College of Europe in Bruges and Warsaw.

He is best known for his large volume of published work in two very different areas. The larger and earlier part of the corpus concerned the law concerning migrant workers in the EU and European Social Law. He was a member of the High Level Panel on the Free Movement of Workers established by the European Commission, chaired by Simone Veil.