Dr. Malorie Schaus is a Research Fellow at the GRID Unit of CEPS.
Her research interests cover EU and international trade and investment law and economics. She studies the different dimensions of the EU trade policy (reoriented towards open strategic autonomy), as well as the reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including its dispute settlement system. She also carries out research on European business law.
She is the Coordinator of the Working Group 10 on ‘Global Trade Challenges’ as part of the Trade and Technology Dialogue (TTD), and the Rapporteur of the CEPS Task Force on the EU-China trade and investment relations. She is involved in diverse trade-related projects for the Commission and other organisations. She is equally the Coordinator of the CEPS Forum on the New Industrial Strategy for Europe.
She is a lecturer in international economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Prior to joining CEPS, she has worked as a company lawyer defending the interests of Belgian companies. She has furthermore built experience through diverse internships at the European and international levels, including the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the European Court of Justice, and a Brussels-based international law firm.
She graduated in law from the University of Liège (Belgium) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). She earned a LL.M. in International Economic Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland).
Malorie Schaus holds a Ph.D. in WTO law from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). As part of her doctoral studies, she has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Her Ph.D. thesis critically examines the concept of ‘measure’ in WTO law and economics. It demonstrates that the ‘measure’ in WTO law is best conceived as a stabilizing concept grafted onto the substance of specific GATT/WTO legal obligations in terms of aim and effects throughout the judicial proceedings, in line with its essence as enshrined in the DSU and the fundamental WTO principle of security and predictability, beyond the predominant open approach to the ‘measure’ in WTO law based on its form.
Reports contributed as part of the Trade and Technology Dialogue:
- Transatlantic Initiative on Sustainable Trade (TIST) Stakeholder Engagement Event — Summary Report | Futurium (europa.eu)
- TTC WG10 Report of the Preliminary Stakeholder Event on Increasing the Use of Digital Tools to Enhance Transatlantic Trade – 4 May 2023 | Futurium (europa.eu)
- TTC WG10 Report of the Roundtable on Due Diligence – 3 March 2023 | Futurium (europa.eu)
