Aube Wirtgen

Areas of expertise

Constitutional law - Legal protection of citizens against public authorities - Environmental law

Biography

Aube Wirtgen is a full-time Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), specialising in constitutional law, legal protection of citizens against public authorities, and environmental law. In 2002, she obtained her PhD from Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a doctoral dissertation on actions for annulment before the Belgian Council of State. Since then, her research has continued to focus on public procedural law. Her research interests also include constitutional law, in particular the rules governing the division of powers in federal Belgium and human rights, as well as the legal protection of citizens against public authorities, including public authority liability, the principles of good administration, and judicial injunctions against public authorities. 

She is the author of more than 100 contributions to books and academic journals and serves on several editorial boards and scientific committees of legal journals and book series. 

Teaching

Aube Wirtgen teaches Constitutional law in the Bachelor of Laws programme and Constitutional law in the Bachelor of Political Science programme. In the Master of Laws programme, she teaches Legal protection against public authorities and Climate and environmental law. 

Functions within the VUB

At the VUB, she holds several academic governance positions, including Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology, member of the University Council, Vice-Chair of the Department of Public Law, and Chair of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Section.  

Functions outside of the VUB

Aube Wirtgen is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Flemish Human Rights Institute.

Prizes

• 'Algemene Praktische Rechtsverzameling'-prize 1994-1995;

• 'René Marcq'-prize of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1996-1997.