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Update academic affiliation

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  • Specific text to be changed:
    Since 2011, she has been Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.
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    Since 2023, she has been Chair in Constitutional Law at the European University Institute, on leave from the New York University School of Law.
  • Reason for the change: Subject has moved institutions, retaining her affiliation with NYU but being currently on leave.
  • Links that support the proposal:

https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=four-distinguished-professors-join-the-law-department https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=31563 Longicaudis (talk) 14:58, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding substance to the article

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Hello! In addition to the more formal edit proposed above, I would also like to suggest that the article could be enriched by adding a few facts that can show why the scholar warrants a Wikipedia entry. I will try and break down those proposals into separate items, which can be added or rejected independently.

Highly cited author

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  • Reason for the change: This way, it would be clearer that the subject meets Criterion 1 of WP:NACADEMIC.
  • Proposed text to be added: de Búrca is a highly-cited legal scholar, with over 15,000 citations on Google Scholar.[3]

Author of leading textbook

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  • Reason for the change: one of the subject's main claims to notability among academics is that she is the author of a leading textbook on European Union law, which is not currently acknowledged in the page.
  • Proposed text to be added: With Paul Craig (legal scholar), de Búrca is the author of "EU law: text, cases, and materials", one of the most popular textbooks in European Union Law.
  • Supporting link: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2021.47 -> a peer-reviewed article from a prestigious law journal that refers to this textbook as "the most popular EU law textbook"

Research areas

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  • Reason for the change: giving the reader a broader prespective on the subject's work.
  • Proposed text to be added: de Búrca's research focuses on EU law, human rights and equality, democracy, and governance.
  • Supporting link: https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=revisiting-constitutional-law-eui-welcomes-back-professor-grainne-de-burca -> since this is a primary source directly connected with the subject (an interview from their home institution), its usefulness is limited, but it might be enough to ground the more-or-less-factual description of the fields of study.

Longicaudis (talk) 15:48, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]