Robert Schütze is Professor of European Law and Director of the Durham European Law Institute. Outside the Law School, he also co-directs the Global Policy Institute together with the political scientist Professor David Held; and he is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Government of LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome). 

Professor Schütze is a constitutional scholar with a particular expertise in the law of the European Union and comparative federalism. He joined Durham Law School in 2005, where he teaches European constitutional law and comparative constitutional law. In the past, he has been a Visiting Professor or Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London), the Centre for European Legal Studies (Cambridge), Fribourg University (Switzerland), the Institute of European and Comparative Law (Oxford), and the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law(Heidelberg). He has also been a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.