Past Seminars
Past Events & Conferences 2019/20
WEBINAR: Trade with Northern Ireland under the Withdrawal Agreement: Legal and Policy Issues
Date: 16 July 2020
Speakers:
- Timothy Lyons QC BL, 39 Essex Chambers
- Dr Katy Hayward, Queen’s University Belfast and UK in a Changing Europe
- Dr Anna Jerzewska, UK Trade Policy Observatory
- Dr Vincent Power, Partner at A&L Goodbody, Dublin.
WEBINAR: Foreign Subsidies in the EU Internal Market: The European Commission’s White Paper
Date: 7 July 2020
This webinar brings together eminent lawyers who will reflect on the content, context, and implications of the White Paper.
Chair: Professor Panos Koutrakos, Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU law, City, University of London
Speakers:
- Sir Jonathan Faull, Brunswick Group, Former European Commission Director General
- Isabelle Van Damme, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels
- Frank Hoffmeister, European Commission Directorate-General for Trade
- Carolina Dackö, Mannheimer Swartling, Gothenburg
WEBINAR: Contemporary Issues in Transatlantic Relations
Date: 1 July 2020
This interdisciplinary seminar hosted by the Jean Monnet Chair in Transatlantic Relations at City Law School and the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL) examines topical issues in transatlantic relations across a range of subjects and issues, from trade, security and data, to defence.
WEBINAR: The EU as a Good Global Actor
Date: 19 June, 2020
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kalypso Nicolaides, Oxford University
Webinar: Book talk with former US Ambassador Anthony Gardner ‘Stars with Stripes’
Date: 29 May, 2020
Event hosted by the Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations and EUTIP Marie Curie ITN
Webinar: Symposium on Future-Mapping the directions of European Union Law
Date: 26 May, 2020
Speakers:
Dr. Francisco Costa-Cabral, Tilburg University, Dr. Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Prof. Elaine Fahey, City, University of London (Chair), Dr. Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki, Dr. Maria Kendrick, City, University of London, Prof. Tobias Lock, University of Maynooth, Dr. Oana Stefan, King’s College London, Dr. Maria Tzanou, Keele University, Dr. Adrienne Yong, City, University of London, Dr. Rebecca Zahn, University of Strathclyde.
WEBINAR: The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media
Date: 15 May, 2020
Speakers:
Dr. Stephen Allen, Queen Mary University of London School of Law; Professor Elaine Fahey, City Law School, City, University of London; Dr. Kate Klonick, St. Johns University Law School, author of ‘Creating Global Governance for Online Speech: The Development of Facebook’s Oversight Board’, 129 YALE L. J. (forthcoming 2020); Professor Andrew Murray, London School of Economics Law Department; Dr. Jed Odermatt, City, University of London; Dr. Maria Tzanou, Keele University School of Law
Narrow Authority of the Court of Justice of the EU on the democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary
Date: 27 February, 2020
Room: A109
Speaker: Dr Pola Cebulak, University of Amsterdam
Chair/Discussant: Dr Joelle Grogan, Middlesex University London
Citizenship, Crime and Community in the European Union
Date: 5 February, 2020
Speaker: Dr Stephen Coutts, University College Cork
The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights in the European Union: A Constitutional Analysis
Date: 20 November, 2019
Speaker: Dr Eleni Frantziou, Durham University
EU Powers Under External Pressure - How the EU's External Actions Alter its Internal Structures
Date: 13 November, 2019
Speaker: Prof Christina Eckes (University of Amsterdam)
The Best Interests of the Child in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
15 October, 2019
Speaker: Professor Annette Schrauwen, Universiteit Van Amsterdam
Past Events & Conferences 2018/19
Brexit’s Effect on Citizens, Human Rights & Immigration
11 June, 2019
The European Parliament (EP), Elections and Brexit: an Evening with Claude Moraes, Chairperson of the EP LIBE Committee
23 April, 2019
Speaker: Claude Moraes, Labour MEP for London
Britain Outside The EU: The State of Play
2 April, 2019 - Northampton Suite
Speakers: Dr Andriani Kalintiri, Dr Adrienne Yong, Professor Sir Alan Dashwood QC, Professor Elaine Fahey, Professor Panos Koutrakos, Dr Jed Odermatt
Sanctions: Where Next?
13 March, 2019
Guest Speaker: Maya Lester QC (Brick Court Chambers)
Book launch: Judicial Independence – Memoirs of a European Judge by Carl Baudenbacher
5 March, 2019
Speakers: Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, Tim Ward QC (Monckton Chambers), Carl Baudenbacher (former President of EFTA Court; Monckton Chambers)
What does Brexit tell us about the evolution of EU citizenship?
13 February, 2019
Speaker: Dr Stephanie Reynolds, University of Liverpool
EFTA and the EEA for Brexit: ideal solution, “lifeboat" or neither?
22 January, 2019
Speaker: Dr Georges Baur, Research Fellow with the Liechtenstein-Institute, formerly Assistant Secretary-General of EFTA
Excluding Designs (and Shape Marks) - Where is the CJEU going?
27 November, 2018
Guest Speaker: Professor Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary University of London
EU Foreign Policy, Brexit and Transatlantic Relations
21 November, 2018
Speaker: Dr Joris Larik, Leiden University
Modelling convergence of the EU with the world: taking, receiving and becoming EU law
2 November, 2018
Justice, Injustice and Brexit
19 October, 2018
Rationales for Regulation of ‘Posted Work’: Options for a Post-Brexit Model
17 October, 2018
Speaker: Professor Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol
Past Events & Conferences 2011-2018
| Date | Title and Speaker |
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| 27 April 2018 | The 2nd Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency & Commercial Law Research Group Conference |
| 11 April 2018 | Scala Civium: Citizenship Templates Post-Brexit & the EU's Duty to Protect the EU - Speaker: Professor Dora Kostakopoulou, University of Warwick |
| 19 March 2018 | Learning from the TTIP Negotiations: Looking Backwards and Forwards at Global Trade Speakers
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| 14 February 2018 | The Principal/Agency Model: Pitfalls, Law and Lessons from Energy - Guest Speaker: Dr Oana Stefan, King's College London |
| 7 February 2018 | Fundamental Rights and Copyright Law in the EU - Speaker: Professor Tuomas Mylly’ |
| 6 December 2017 | Fundamental Rights and Brexit - Speaker: Dr Tobias Lock, University of Edinburgh |
| 24 November 2017 | Modelling Divergence(s) and Convergence(s) of the EU in the World |
| 8 November 2017 | Seminar: Modelling EU Convergence and Divergence in the Global Legal Order |
| 1 February 2017 | What is the Potential Impact of Brexit on EU and UK Employment Law? - Speaker: Professor Jeff Kenner (University of Nottingham) |
| 30 November 2016 | EU-UK Relations as External Relations Post Brexit - Speaker: Professor Sir Alan Dashwood |
| 15 November 2016 | Understanding CETA: Legal Challenges and Business Opportunities - Speakers: Christophe Bondy, Dr Elaine Fahey, Mark Richardson |
| 12 October 2016 | Seminar: EU-US Privacy Shield: The Status Quo of EU-US Data Protection and Privacy Laws, Max Schrems , Vienna University |
| 20 April 2016 | Seminar: Professor Eleanor Spaventa (University of Durham) |
| 24 February 2016 | Seminar: Emancipation through EU Law? Floris de Witte (London School of Economics) |
| 10 February 2016 | Lecture: The View from the EU Bench: Judge Allan Rosas (European Court of Justice), Judge Allan Rosas (European Court of Justice) |
| 27 January 2016 | Lecture: EU Law: Taking Economics Seriously? Professor Michelle Everson, Birkbeck College |
| 2 December 2015 | Legal Implications of the Referendum on EU membership symposium, Monckton Chambers and The City Law School |
| 25 November 2015 | The Role of Ideas in EU Lawmaking: The Case of the Unitary Patent, Dr Benjamin Farrand, University of Warwick |
| 6 November 2015 | Workshop: Framing the subjects and objects of contemporary EU law, ISEL and the Centre for European and Comparative Law (Kent) Papers
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| 28 October 2015 | The Origins of General Principles of Law, Professor Paul Craig,University of Oxford |
| 12 October 2015 | Panel debate: Whither, whose and why TTIP? |
| 30 September 2015 | State of democracy in the European Union 2015: representatives of whom? Political coordinators, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament, Professor Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 29 July 2015 | Panel debate: The migration crisis in the Mediterranean: legal and policy issues arising from the EU response, The Institute for the Study of European Laws and the International Law and Affairs Group under the auspices of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law. |
| 10 June 2015 | EU competition law and international law regimes of jurisdiction: an uneasy fit?, |
| 15 April 2015 | The global reach and effects of EU law: methodologies and constructs Dr Elaine Fahey, City University London |
| 23 March 2015 | Seminar: Preliminary references to the Court of Justice of the European Union - Examining what Member States refer more/less than what could be expected? Professor Morten Broberg, University of Copenhagen |
| 18 March 2015 | Unilateral, extraterritorial action and climate change Professor Joanne Scott, University College London |
| 18 February 2015 | What next for the European Neighbourhood Policy? Dr Narine Ghazaryan, Brunel University |
| 10 December 2014 | The right to equality in European Human Rights Law: the quest for substance in the jurisprudence of the European courts Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis |
| 19 December 2014 | Fundamental rights, general principles of EU Law and the charter Professor Takis Tridimas, King's College London |
| 29 October 2014 | Insights for constitutional design from the EU's experience with ex post review of international agreements Dr Mario Mendez, Queen Mary University of London |
| 18 June 2014 | Choosing legal bases to circumvent the UK's Title V opt-in: news from the front line Professor Sir Alan Dashwood, The City Law School and Hendersen Chambers |
| 21 May 2014 | Reassessing the EU's regulatory agencies: mind the accountability gap Dr Marios Costa, The City Law School |
| 16 April 2014 | Kelsenian reflections on the unity of domestic and international law: the practice of consistent interpretation of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Dr Paul Gragl, Queen Mary, University of London |
| 19 March 2014 | EU law and the potential of democratic anxiety Professor Damien Chalmers, London School of Economics |
| 19 February 2014 | The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and national courts: the question of scope, direct effect or justice Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz, Trinity College, University of Oxford |
| 20 November 2013 | The legal reasoning of the court of justice of the EU Dr Gunnar Beck, SOAS, University of London |
| 16 October 2013 | The federal implications of the economic rights of Union citizens Dr Alina Tryfonidou, University of Reading Sanctions cases in the European Court Ms Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers, London |
| 12 June 2013 | Internet governance and human rights in Europe Dr Matthias C. Kettemann, University of Graz, Austria |
| 15 May 2013 | Pringle reading symposium Professor Alan Dashwood, The City Law School |
| 8 May 2013 | Preparing for mega-cities: can the EU experience offer good lessons? What is EU smart regulation? Joanne Moss, The City Law School European Commission's musing about harmonisation of online gambling law amongst member states - mission impossible? Margaret Carran, The City Law School |
| 10 April 2013 | Human rights and the commodification of the Holocaust Dr David Seymour, The City Law School Is sharia compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Salma Dean, European Network for Women in Leadership |
| 13 March 2013 | The regime for EU air passenger rights post-Sturgeon Dr Steven Truxal, The City Law School Eweida and Others v UK: did the court strike a fair balance? Dr Ilaria Bertini, City University London and the University of Milan-Bicocca |
| 13 February 2013 | EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights - the challenges ahead Dr Tobias Lock, University of Surrey |
| 12 December 2012 | The private lives of public figures Professor Megan Richardson, University of Melbourne |
| 14 November 2012 | The law and the eurozone crisis Dr Dan Wilsher, The City Law School |
| 10 October 2012 | On EU audiovisual policy and its impact on the Council of Europe attempts to revise the Convention on Transfrontier Television as an exemplar of post-Lisbon competence issues Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh, Edinburgh Law School |
| 11 April 2012 | EU counter-terrorism in a post- 'war on terror' world Dr Cian Murphy, University of Bristol |
| 8 February 2012 | Existence - exercise - exhaustion: the life cycle of intellectual property in the EU? Vincent Smith, Partner at Sheppard & Smith |
| 9 February 2011 | The Rights of Roma in Europe Dr Mauro Barelli, The City Law School |