Europe and the World: A Law Review (Launch Event)

It is a great pleasure to announce the launch of a new journal, published by UCL Press: Europe and the World – A Law Review. The journal will be fully open access, and observe the highest standards of academic publishing.

The first issue will be published on 19 June, at a launch event in London. We may see some of you there, and hope you will consider the journal as a potential outlet for some of your academic work, or will recommend it to others.

Programme for the launch event

18:00	Welcome and Introductions Editors of the Journal
18:10	Keynote speech on ‘Can Europe Save Democracy?’ Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro
18:40	Questions and Answers Facilitated by Caroline Wilson
18:50	UCL Press
19:00	Drinks Reception

About the journal

Europe and the World – A Law Review aims to contribute to legal scholarship on the place of Europe in the world, with a particular but by no means exclusive focus on the EU’s external relations law.

The journal serves as a forum where the national, international and EU perspectives meet and engage. The journal is therefore irreverent of traditional distinctions between EU, international, and national law. While primarily offering legal doctrinal and theoretical analyses, the journal also publishes multi-disciplinary work and political science and international relations contributions with an external perspective on the law of EU’s external relations.

The first issue includes an editorial and four articles:

• ‘Making Transnational Markets: The institutional politics behind the TTIP’, Marija Bartl.
• ‘The EU and International Dispute Settlement’, Allan Rosas.
• ‘Of Presidents, High Representatives and European Commissioners: The external representation of the European Union seven years after Lisbon’, Frank Hoffmeister.
• ‘(Not) Losing Out from Brexit’, Annette Schrauwen.

New book: “The European Union’s External Action in Times of Crisis”

Piet Eeckhout (University College London) and Manuel Lopex-Escudero (University of Granada) have just published a new book entitled “The European Union’s External Action in Times of Crisis“.

Here is the abstract:

The Lisbon Treaty modified the legal framework of EU external action and these innovations must be applied in a period of deep economic and financial crisis interacting with other more specific crises affecting the EU’s external activities. This volume investigates the recent institutional and substantive developments in EU external relations law and practice in this context of multiple crises for the EU. The economic and financial crisis has a major impact on EU external action, but other crises too affect this sensitive area of the EU’s activity and the book takes them into account. For instance, there is a crisis in the relationship between EU law and international law after the ECJ judgement in the Kadi case. In addition to exploring these questions, the volume also examines questions of legitimacy in fields such as foreign investment protection and arbitration. Representing the output of a powerful research team composed of leading scholars in the field this comprehensive collection will appeal to both an expert and non-expert readership.

You can read more about the book and see the table of contents on the publisher’s website. A flyer with a 20% discount code is available here.

CLEER Research Digest no. 1/2016

The Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) has just published a new issue of its useful Research Digest, which is a collection of recent publications in the area of EU external relations law & policy:

Members of the CLEER Community and others are also invited to submit information on their recent publications by filling out the following form: Online Form – CLEER Research Digest.