Prof Tanel Kerikmäe is a well-known international lawyer and EU scholar who received his academic degrees in law and political science & governance from Tartu, Tallinn, Helsinki and educated himself also in Oxford, EUI, Turku, Cambridge, Strassbourg and Edinbburgh. He serves also as a director of TalTech Law School.  Tanel is a board member of several high-ranked law journals (such as Baltic Yearbook of International Law), chief-editor of TalTech Journal of European Studies and an author of more than 150 articles and publications e.g. published by Ashgate, Martinus Nijhoff, Kluwer, Cambridge Press, Peter Lang, Lexis Nexis, Springer etc. He has been teaching in Nagoya university, Luzern university and RGSL and was invited speaker for high level forums in Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing, Budapest, Auckland, Meddelín, Phnom Penh and elsewhere. Tanel is elected foreign member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and awarded with the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa at Jaroslav Mudryi National Law University and honorary professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law.

His online CV is available on Estonian Research Portal https://www.etis.ee/CV/Tanel_Kerikm%C3%A4e/eng/