Fabian Amtenbrink is professor at the Erasmus School of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he holds the chair of European Union law. Since 2009 he is also visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). He is member of the Scientific Board of the Erasmus Center for Economic and Financial Governance (ECEFG), an international multidisciplinary network lead by Erasmus School of Economics and Erasmus School of Law. 

Professor Amtenbrink, who studied law at the Freie Universität of Berlin (Germany) and is fully qualified in Germany to practice law, holds a Dutch doctorate in law (PhD) with distinction.

His research focuses on constitutional and institutional aspects of European Union law, legal issues of (European) economic and monetary integration and namely the role of the European Central Bank in the Union legal order. One hallmark of his research is the cooperation with economists and political economists, as becomes apparent from his co-authored publications in economics journals and in the working paper series of (inter-) national economic and financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the Dutch Central Bank. He has published extensively in international journals, such as the European Law Review, the Common Market Law Review, and the Journal of Common Market Studies, as well as with leading international academic publishers, including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. He serves on the editorial board of the European Law Review and the Netherlands Yearbook for International Law, as well as being a principle editor of the Nijhoff Studies in EU Law Series (Brill).

Professor Amtenbrink has provided expert evidence and co-authored several studies for the European Parliament and on several occasions has provided expert evidence to the Dutch Parliament, including on two separate occasions as a member of an expert group appointed by Finance Committee of the Dutch Parliament (2021 and 2023) delivering two publicly-available reports offering respectively (1) an economic and legal analysis of the ECB’s position during the European sovereign debt and (2) the ECB’s position during the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter, including the development of central bank profits and losses.