Professor Lisa Waddington holds the Chair in European Disability Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. The Chair is supported by the European Disability Forum. Professor Waddington received her Doctorate of Law in 1993 from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for her dissertation: ‘More Disabled Than Others. The Employment of Disabled People within the European Community: An Analysis of Existing Measures and Proposals for Reform'.

Between 1993 and 2004 she was the editor of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, and a lecturer and senior lecturer at Maastricht University. In 2000, Professor Waddington received an ASPASIA subsidy from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) for the enhancement of the number of women in higher academic positions. In collaboration with universities and international institutions in Belgium and Ireland she presently coordinates a large EU research and education project with regard to European non-discrimination law, of which this summer school is a part.