of the lower Chamber, the Grand Chamber ruled by a large majority (15:2) that the display of crucifixes in Italian classrooms does not contravene the European Convention of Human Rights. In an interview Weiler stated that he was intervening on behalf of Italy not because he wanted to defend Christianity but to defend pluralism. Accolades Professor Weiler is the recipient of Doctorates Honoris Causa from London University University College London, University of Sussex, the University of Macerata, the University of Navarra, the University of Ljubljana, University of Edinburgh, CEU San Pablo University – Madrid, Humboldt University of Berlin, Roma Tre University, Democritus University of Thrace – Greece, University of Bucharest, the Catholic University of America, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Strathmore University and Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He is the Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU. He is also Co-Director of LL.M. "Law in a European and Global Context" at the Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon; Honorary Professor at University College, London; Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China and Honorary Professor at National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a Member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament co-drafting the European Parliament's Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms. He was a member of the Groupe des Sages advising the Commission of the European Union on the 1996/97 Amsterdam Treaty. He is a WTO Panel Member. He is a founding Editor of the European Journal of International Law, of the European Law Journal and of the World Trade Review. He is a Member of the Advisory Boards or Scientific Committees of, among others, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Cahiers de Droit Européeen, Common Market Law Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the Columbia Journal of European Law, the Harvard International Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the (Australian) Federal Law Review, the Journal of European Integration, the European Foreign Policy Bulletin online and ELSA-Selected Papers of European Law. He is a Member of the Board of Management of the European Research Paper Archive. He is also a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific