Prof Ivan Sammut is a resident academic and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU law within the Department of European and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta, where he has taught and researched since 2005. Before joining the University as an academic, he practised law in Malta and acted as a consultant in EU law. He was also employed with the European Commission for two years. He also acts as a freelance EU law consultant with various local law firms and has authored several European Commission reports. As a practising lawyer in Malta, his practice specialises in EU law. In 2013 he was appointed a senior lecturer and a coordinator of a Jean Monnet module dealing with EU legal drafting and translation. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in 2022. Prof Sammut has considerable experience in the translation of EU documents and also holds an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He graduated BA in Law and European Studies in 1999 and a Doctor of Laws in 2002 from the University of Malta. He was called to the Maltese Bar in 2003. Subsequently, he read for LL.M. in European Legal Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and a Magister Juris in European & Comparative law from the University of Malta. In 2010, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in European private law at the University of London. His teaching and research interests focus on the EU Internal Market legislation, Justice and Home Affairs Law, Competition law, European private law from a comparative perspective and European private international law. Prof Sammut has published various articles in Malta and international peer-reviewed journals such as the European Private Law Review. He is also the author of a monograph entitled Constructing Modern European Private Law - A Hybrid System, published by CSP in the UK and an editor in several edited academic books.
