Leticia Díez Sánchez (L.)

I am Assistant Professor in EU Law. Before that, I was Inquiries Officer at the strategic team of the European Ombudsman, Teaching Fellow in Law at Sciences Po Paris, and Emile Noël Fellow at New York University (Fulbright-Schuman Scholar).

I have a background in law and political economy and hold a PhD in EU Law from the European University Institute. My research explores how EU law affects the distribution of wealth between and within Member States, and how this, in turn, affects our characterisation of the EU constitutional order. My thesis, titled "Integration through law and its discontents: Unveiling the distributive impact of judge-made law in the EU", was awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative and European law from the EUI, the First Place Award for the best doctoral thesis in European Law from the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA), as well as the Thesis Prize from the European Public Law Organization (EPLO).  The monograph that resulted from it, "A distributional analysis of EU Law", will be published with Oxford University Press in 2025. 

On the teaching front, I established and currently co-ordinate the Bachelor course "EU Law and Inequality". I am also the coordinator and lecturer of our Food Law programmes at Bachelor and Master's level. I supervise bachelor, master's and doctoral theses on the subjects of EU law and economic inequality, EU constitutional law, judicial behaviour, and litigation in the EU legal order.

And last, but not least, I am a member of the management team of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and serve as the Master Thesis Coordinator of the master's programmes hosted at the Law Faculty.