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CELI - News
The start of the new academic year has launched a series of new events and seminars in the School of Law.
On 1 and 2 October 2009 Professor Erika Szyszczak co-organised a Conference on Health care in the EU. Details of the conference were reported on the US Blog Health Reform Watch: Market Competition in Health Care: The EU's Parallel Struggle
The Competition and Commercial Law research clusters have merged with the financial markets regualtion research cluster to create a new research cluster on Financial Regulation and Commercial Law. There will be series of lunch time seminars starting on Wednesday 28th October 2009 when Dr Lorna Gillies will speak on "The Utility of Choise of Law Rules for Anti-Competitive Behaviour in the Rome II Regulation". The seminar will take place in the Jan Grodecki Room at 13.00.
Dr Oxana Golynker
From January to June 2010, Dr Golynker will be on sabbatical leave working on her book project ‘Social Europe: The Expanding Universe’. From March to May 2010 she is going to work as a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies , European University Institute, Florence. This project is funded by the British Academy.
Workshop on SGEIs, the European Social Model and Free Movement, IALS London, 15 and 16 June 2009
RFMI
January 2009 sees the launch of a new research cluster: the Regulation of Financial Markets (RFMI). The research cluster is directed by Andromachi Georgosouli. The series of events organised by RFMI may be found on the News web page.
Abstracts for the papers for the next seminar may be found here:
RFMIContemprary_Issues_in_Financial_RegulationPaper Abstracts
In March 2009: Professor Robin White visited Prague as part of the EU-funded British delegation in order to work for two days with the Czech Social Security Administration and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on the co-ordination of social security entitlements.
Launch of A New Research Cluster
REGULATING FINANCIAL MARKETS AT A TIME OF CRISIS
RFMI/CELI PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2008-2009
Seminar "Financial Crisis: Issues of EU Competition and State Aid Law"
Wednesday the 4th of February 2009 at 16.00 o’clock in the afternoon. Room L66, Fielding Johnson Building, School of Law, University of Leicester
-Professor Erika Szyszczak (Jean Monnet Professor of European Law, Professor of European Competition and Labour Law, Director of the Centre for European Law and Integration): “State aid aspects of bailouts in times of financial crisis”
-Professor Cosmo Graham (Professor, School of Law University of Leicester, Director of the Centre for Utility Consumer Law; member of the RFMI/CELI research cluster): “Mergers and acquisitions: Some competition law issues”
Seminar "Contemporary Issues in Financial Regulation"
Friday, 27 March 2009 at 15.00 o’clock. Room, CW2 BPA, Charles Wilson Building 2nd Floor, LR Belvoir Park Annexe, University of Leicester.
· SESSION I: “Banking Law Reform in the Aftermath of Northern Rock”
- Professor George Alexander Walker (Professor of International Financial Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL): “Banking Law Reform in the Aftermath of Northern Rock: A Critical Appraisal”
- Mr. Ian Snaith (Senior Lecturer, member of RFMI/CELI research cluster, School of Law, University of Leicester): “The New Regimes for Insolvent UK Banks: Stabilisation or Privilege for One Corporate Sector?”
· SESSION II: “Recent Developments in Corporate Governance”
- Dr. Alan Dignam (Reader, Queen Mary University of London): “The Globalisation of Corporate Governance”
- Dr. Daniel Attenborough (Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leicester): “How Should Directors Act When Owning Duties to Shareholders?”
MLR Seminar: "The Financial Services Authority: The First Ten Years and the Future Ahead"
Date: Friday 8th of May 2009 School of Law, University of Leicester
· Speakers:
1. Dr. Kern Alexander: Reader in Law and Finance, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL; formerly Director of Research in Financial Regulation at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, University of Cambridge
Paper title: “The Credit Crisis and the Regulatory Response”
2) Professor Rosa Maria Lastra: Professor of International Financial and Monetary Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL; former appointments include legal consultancy for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank
Paper title: “Financial Stability and Regulation: Issues of Institutional Design”
3) Professor Doreen McBarnet: Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Centre for Socio-legal Studies, Oxford University: TBC
4) Professor Niamh Moloney: Professor of Capital Markets Law, School of Law, LSE)
Paper title: “The relationship between the FSA and the EU regime”
5) Professor Takis Tridimas: Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL; Matrix Chambers; former appointments include referendaire of the European Court of Justice.
Paper title: “The Europanisation of financial markets regulation”
6) Dr. Dimitrios Tsomocos: Reader in Finance, Said Business School, University of Oxford; economic consultant of the Bank of England
Paper title: pending specification
7) Professor George Walker: Professor of International Financial Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL; current and former appointments include legal consultancy for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and the Asian Development Bank
Paper title: “Northern Rock”
8) Professor Toni Williams: Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent
Paper title: “Going Global: Transnationalization of the FSA’s Fairness Regulation Through the Responsibilization of Financial Firms”
· Discussants:
1) Dr. Emilios Avgouleas: Reader in International Financial Law, School of Law, University of Manchester
2) Professor Eilis Ferran: Professor of Company and Securities Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge; part-time consultant of Herbert-Smith; Special Advisor of the UK Parliament Joint Committee on the Financial Services and Markets Bill
3) Professor Joanna Gray: Professor of Financial Regulation, Law School, University of Newcastle
4) Professor Eva Lomnicka: Professor of Law, School of Law, King’s College; barrister at 4 New Square Chambers; former appointments include membership in the DTI’s Consumer Credit Steering Group, which led to the Consumer Credit Bill 2006.
5) Professor Iain MacNeil: Alexander Stone Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Glasgow.
6) Dr. Alistair Milne: Reader in Banking, Cass Business School, City University; former appointments include consultancy for the Bank of England and the HM Treasury.
7) Professor Phillip Rawlings: Professor of Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL.
8) Professor Geoffrey Wood: Professor of Economics, Cass Business School, City University; special advisor of the Bank of England on issues of financial stability.
Staff Seminar
At 13.00, Friday 6 February 2009 in the Jan Grodecki Room, Elena Urso from the University of Florence will give a seminar on the topic:
"Italian civil liability at a crossroad or still white, red and green? A comparative analysis of the2008 decision of the Sezioni Unite of the Supreme Court".
Elena’s presentation concerns an important recent decision of the Corte di Cassazione about civil liability in cases of non-pecuniary losses. Following this judgment, it appears that that non-pecuniary losses (danno non patrimoniale) are not limited to pain and suffering only (danno morale), being comprehensive also of physical harms (danno alla salute) and losses expressly foreseen by the legislature (in cases of environmental liability, breach of privacy rights, violation of the due process caused by unreasonable delays in the proceeedings, in cases of justice denied because of judges' liability),as well as of other violations of personal inviolable rights, constitutionally protected.
Light snacks and sandwiches will be provided.
Distance Learning LLM in EU Law Induction Week-end Seminar 10 - 12th October 2008
Inaugural Lecture
Professor Nicholas Green QC will deliver his inaugural lecture on 11 November 2008 at 5.30pm in Ken Edwards Building Lecture Theatre 1. The title is:
"From Rome to Rome: The Evolution of Competition Law into a 21st Century Religion"
New Human Rights Seminar Series
For the third successive year Dr Virginia Mantouvalou has organised a series of Human Rights seminars in the School of Law:
8 October 2008, Professor Gerry Simpson, LSE, Topic: The Laws of War and the Practice of Warfare
22 October 2008, Professor Susan Marks, King’s College London, "HUman Rights and the Bottom Billion"
5 November 2008, Dr Achilles Skordas, Topic: The 1951 Refugee Convention and the Fragmentation of Refugee Law: Reciprocity, European Union law, Human Rights Law
3 March 2009, Dr Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Topic: Illegal Immigrant: Victim or Villain?
18 March 2009, Professor Luzius Wildhaber, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Topic: Changing Philosophies and Views about the Tasks of the European Court of Human Rights
Dissenting and separate opinions in the European Court of Human Rights 1999 to 2004
This two year project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is examining the significance and impact of separate concurring opinions and dissenting opinions in the European Court of Human Rights over the six calendar years 1999 to 2004. This involves both a quantitative and qualitative assessment of such opinions. The project is led by Professor Robin White working with a Research Associate, Dr Iris Boussiakou.
A web log relating to the project is maintained at http://ahrclawleicester.blogspot.com/
Damages Claims in EU Law
UKAEL jointly with Centre for European Law & Integration, Leicester University, 22 February 2008
Event programme and registration (
pdf)
BILA and Giambrone & Law Seminar
Dr Paolisa Nebbia is organising an evening seminar on Monday 26th November 2007 at 6pm on Anitrust Supervision of the Banking Sector the Italian Reform and Comparative Perspectives.
Invitation to GiamBankingAntitrust
LLM in EU Law by Distance Learning Seminar
The LLM in European Union Law by Distance Learning held a residential seminar weekend in Leicester over the week-end of 9th - 11th November 2007. Key Note Lectures were delivered on a range of topical issues from the recent Microsoft judgment, to a discussion of Damages Actions in Competition Law, to the new Energy Policy of the EU, alongside lectures on social policy, company law, consumer law and the environment.
CELI Human Rights Lectures
The Centre for European Law and Integration (CELI) are launching the second series of lectures this academic year, covering a wide range of human rights topics. Further information on venues and times will be posted shortly.
- 31 October 2007, 17:30, L66 Fielding Johnson Building
"The WTO and Human Rights"
Professor Sarah Joseph,
Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights,
Monash University, Australia
Chair: Dr Virginia Mantouvalou
- 14 November 2007 - "Socio-economic Rights Adjudication in Europe"
- 12 December 2007 - "The Rise and Rise of Counter-terrorism: Can Civil Liberties and Human Rights Survive the Strain?"
- 30 January 2008 - "International Human Rights Law and Reparatory Justice in Central and Eastern Europe"
- 7 March 2008 - "Human Rights at Work"
Proportionality and the Standard of Review after Huang
Friday 23
November 2 pm at the IALS (Council Chamber)
The aim of the seminar is to consider the impact of recent House of Lords decision in Huang on many areas of UK public law, including the doctrine of proportionality, the role of deference in adjudication under the HRA, and the appropriate standard of review.
Sir Robin Auld and Sir Stephen Sedley will take the chair.
Speakers will include:
Professor Paul Craig, University of Oxford
Dr Aileen Kavanagh, University of Leicester
Professor Jeffrey Jowell, UCL
Dr Mark Elliott, University of Cambridge
Philip Sales QC
Professor Mads Andenas, University of Leicester
Seminar poster and registration
CELI LECTURE
"THE EU v MICROSOFT"
Mr Michele Nascimbene will lecture on the current Microsoft litigation (which is on appeal to the Court of First Instance) on Thursday 22nd March 2007 at 12.30pm in Bennet Lecture Theatre 2.
Michele Nascimbene is an associate based in the Milan office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (probably the oldest and most important competition law firm in Europe). Previously he worked five years as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP resident in their London office, being part of the antitrust litigation department. His current practice mainly focuses on corporate law, particularly mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and by-laws, and also on EC and Italian competition law and corporate litigation.
Michele graduated summa cum laude from the Law School of the University of Milan in 2000 with a final dissertation on the US Microsoft case.
During his thesis he spent six months at Microsoft to fully understand the technical issues underlying software applications. In 2001, he received a Master in Law and High Technologies from the Law School of the University of Bologna. In 1998, Mr. Nascimbene was a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley - Boalt Hall School of Law.
Michele is a member of the Milan Bar and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
CELI/Staff Seminar
"Confining Free Movement by Reference to Human Rights: The Implications for Labour Law"
Dr Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol.
Wednesday, 28th February 2007, SR2, School of Law
CELI Lecture
HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICT
Professor Christopher Greenwood, QC,
Wednesday 7 February at 5pm at the University of Leicester, University Road, Charles Wilson Building Belvoir Park Lounge – 2nd floor.
A leading expert on international law will draw on recent issues such as the war in Iraq and humanitarian intervention in Kosovo during a lecture at the University of Leicester. Professor Christopher Greenwood QC will be visiting the University of Leicester, School of Law, at the invitation of the Centre for European Law and Integration, to give a public lecture on “Human Rights in Armed Conflict”.
The event is free and open to public. No ticket is required.
Professor Greenwood will address the applicability of human rights law in times of war. He will explore the interaction between human rights law and the laws of war, and, drawing from recent experience, such as the war in Iraq and the humanitarian intervention in Kosovo, he will highlight the possibilities that human rights law has to regulate the conduct of hostilities, as well as its drawbacks. The event will be chaired by Professor Malcolm Shaw QC.
Christopher Greenwood is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a QC practising in international law before the English and international courts. He is the author of Essays on War in International Law and numerous articles on international law. He was counsel for the UK in the Bankovic case in the European Court of Human Rights and for the Secretary of State for Defence in the Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda cases in the English courts.
CELI/Staff Seminar
Paolisa Nebbia (University of Oxford),
“Anti-trust Damages in EU Law”
Wednesday 14th February 2007, 1.30pm.
Human Rights Seminar
Dr Chaloka Beyani, LSE, will speak on "The African Human Rights System in Context" on Wednesday November 22nd 2006 at 4pm.
Venue to be announced
Lunch Time Seminars
Weds. 1st November, 1.30-2.30pm, Ian Kilbey (De Montfort University):
“Commission v. France – Should ‘and’ equal ‘or’? Financial penalties under Article 228” SR2
Giovanna de Minico (University of Naples).
Wednesday 18th October 2006 , 1.30-2.30pm in SR2, on:
"Regulation and Competition in Telecommunication Services".
Professor Mads Andenas' Inaugural Lecture
"There is a World Elsewhere: more than foreign moods, fads and fashions"
Mads Andenas delivered his inaugural lecture for his Chair in Law on October 10th 2006.
Lunch Time Seminar
Elena Urso from the University of Florence will give a lunch time seminar on Monday 11th September 2006 on the topic:
"Civil Liability for Breach of EC Law after the 2006 ECJ Decision Traghetti del Meditrerraneo v Italy"
Jean Monnet Module of Excellence
Module 1 of the LLM in European Law by Distance Learning has been selected for co-financing by the European Commission Jean Monnet Action programme. The Module will receive funding of 15, 000 euro over three years.
New Members of Staff
CELI is very pleased to welcome the following new members of staff: Dr Andreas Rahmatian, Dr Oxana Golynker, Edward Goodwin and Virginia Mantouvalou.
Dr Iris Boussiakou is also a member of CELI. Iris joined the School in 2006 in order to work with Professor Robin White on an AHRC funded research project analysing dissenting, and separate concurring opinions, in the European Court of Human Rights.
The Modern Law Review Seminars
Members of the Law School have been successful in obtaining funding from the Modern Law Review Seminars Competition.
Professor Erika Szyszczak and Dr Cygan, together with Barbara Bogusz, (who is at Nottingham Trent University and lectures on the Distance Learning LLM in European Union Law at the University of Leicester) are organising a seminar on Sports Law on May 11th 2006. Programme and registration information.
Professor Jean McHale and Dr Kola Abimbola are organising a seminar entitled: "Health Law, Faith and Beliefs: New Dilemmas: New Perspectives". This will be held at the University on Friday 26th May 2006 further details to follow on the CELI web site.
Lecture by Mr Filippo Amato
On Tuesday 21st March 2006 (Astley Clarke Lecture Theatre, 12:30) Mr Filippo Amato, of the Legal Service of the European Commission, will deliver a lecture on “The recent developments in the EC Commission Competition Policy: between Article 82 and Private Enforcement”. His speech will touch two very topical issues that are the subject of a current consultation exercise launched by the Commission in December 2005 and which will be concluded shortly.
Mr Amato has law degrees from the University of Turin, the College of Europe and New York University. He worked as associate for Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton’s Brussels office and served as legal secretary in the cabinet of Advocate General Tizzano at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. At the Commission, before joining the Legal Service, he worked in the Merger Task Force of DG Competition. Mr Amato has also published widely and gives regular lectures in the field of competition law.
New Journal: The Journal of Comparative Law
Camilla Andersen is the co-editor of a new journal, The Journal of Comparative Law, with Nicholas Foster from SOAS. The inaugural issue, Vol 1 Issue 1, has just been published. It is a significant new scholarly resources, drawing upon contributions from leading comparative scholars and international lawyers in the study of the science of comparative law, as well as the international law which utilises this science most.
More information on The Journal of Comparative Law can be found on the Journals website, www.thejcl.com along with details of how to order a free sample of the first issue, and information on subscription (£20 a year for students, £45 for academics and £95 for institutions).
The second issue will focus on legal transplants, and is based on a Symposium held in London over the summer, with contributions from Alan Watson, Mads Andenas, Geoffrey Samuel, Pierre Legrand, William Twining, Ann and Bob Seidman, Janet Dine and other experts on comparative law and law reform. The Association is planning a number of other specilialised issues based on such conferencing, and the board welcome suggestions for future subjects of interest.
Conference Presentations
Mark Bell
will give a presentation on the implementation of the EU Employment Equality Directive to the conference "Tackling multiple discrimination and social exclusion at work", to be held on 9 June 2006 at London Metropolitan University.
Dr Lorna Gillies
Will give a paper "The Future of Consumer Law: The Need for Uniform Conflict of Laws Rules for Electronic Consumer Contracts," at the "The Future of Consumer Law" Symposium, organised by the Consumer Law Academic Network/BIICL, London, on 25 April 2006. Web link: is http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/clan/events.htm
Society of Comparative Legislation Lecture
Probe everything and keep the best
New Publication
Professor Erika Szyszczak and Dr Adam Cygan published Understanding EU Law (Sweet and Maxwell, 2005).
Forthcoming Conference Presentations
Dr Eugenia Caracciolo will give a presentation at the ENAR Conference on "Strategic Litigation on 17th - 18th December 2005 in London.
Dr Mark Bell will give a presentation at an Institute of Employment Rights seminar on "Equality in Employment: Preventing Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief"
Further Information can be obtained at: www.ier.org.uk
On Monday 12 December 2005 Dr Bell will present a paper entitled "New Remedies: Lessons from the UK and other Jurisdictions" at the 6th Discrimination Law Conference, Re-Imagining Equality: A Vision For the Future.
Further Information can be obtained at: www.discrimination-law.org.uk
New and Forthcoming Publications
''Let's talk about sex' - balancing children's rights and parental responsibilities',
Legal Studies, 2006 (1) (forthcoming).
'Inciting religious hatred - balancing free speech and religious sensibilities
in a multi-faith society', in R. Waldon (ed) Does God Believe in Human
Rights (Kluwer, 2006, forthcoming).
'Review Article of J.T.Richardson's, Regulating Religion (2005) Williammette
Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution 13, 87-108.
'Europe, Islam and Democracy - Balancing Religious and Secular Values under
the European Convention on Human Rights' (2003/4) 4 European Yearbook
of Minority Issues , 163-180.
Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
The Goods and Services Directive: Limitations and Opportunities, Feminist
Legal Studies (forthcoming)
EU Gender Equality in a Fast Changing Legal Framework: has it reached its
zenith? in "Gender Equality and the Future of the European Union",
Millns, Diaz (eds.) (ed.) Palgrave (forthcoming in 2005).
The Value of Gender Equality, in "Values in the Constitution of Europe",
Ashgate, Dartmouth, Millns, Aziz (eds.) (with A. Masselot, University of
Leeds) (2005, forthcoming)
The Future of EU Gender Equality, in "EU Law for the 21st Century: Rethinking
the New Legal Order", Tridimas, Nebbia, (eds.) 2004, Hart, 333-347
(with A. Masselot, University of Leeds)
Under Construction: EU Family Law, (2004) 29 European Law Review
32-51 (with A. Masselot, University of Leeds)
National expert in the project "Critical Review of Academic Literature Relating
to the EU Directives to Combat Discrimination", EC Commission, Directorate
for Employment and Social affairs (2004)
The Goods and Services Directive: Limitations and Opportunities, Equality
and Diversity; Current Challenges for EU Anti Discrimination Law, University
of Leicester, May 2005
The Article 13 Directive on Sex Equality and the Green Paper on the Future
of Equality, Progressive Implementation: New Developments in European Union
Gender Equality Law, Expert Conference, The Hague, November 2004
Luca Rubini
L Rubini, Aims, Effects and Justifications: EC State Aid Law and Its Impact on National Social Policies (with A Biondi), in M Dougan and E Spaventa (eds), Social Welfare and EU Law (Hart, 2005)
Analysis of judgments in the European Court of Human Rights
Robin White has been awarded a Research Grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a two-year research project which involves the analysis of over 4,000 judgments in the Court of Human Rights.
International Association of Consumer Law Conference
Dr Lorna Gillies recently gave a conference paper “The Regulation of Electronic Contracts and Consumer Welfare: New Perspectives on Choice of Law Rules for Electronic Consumer Contracts,” at the Tenth International Association of Consumer Law Conference, Lima, Peru, which took place 4-6 May 2005 - http://www.iacl.ca/whatsnew.htm. The powerpoint slides of the paper can be viewed at http://www.iacl.ca/documents/Gillies.ppt."
Celi Annual Lecture
Professor Sandra Fredman - University of Oxford
Changing the norm: positive duties in equal treatment legislation
Date: Thursday 12 May 2005, 5.30 p.m.
Venue: Attenborough Building, Lecture Theatre 1
Event poster
Equality and Diversity Conference
Current Challenges for EU Anti-Discrimination Law
The European Union has adopted several new Directives on combating discrimination since 2000. This one-day conference is an opportunity to compare the implementation of the Directives in the UK and the Netherlands and will also reflect on the current state of EU anti-discrimination law.
New E-commerce book
John Dickie has a new book 'Producers and Consumers in EU E-commerce Law', Hart Publishing, April 2005.
European Working Group of Labour Law
Pascale Lorber was asked to join the 'European Working Group of Labour Law', a network of academics from various European universities. This working group seeks to enhance research and study on labour law, focusing on European and international labour law, as well as fundamental rights and comparative law. David Antill, Mark Bell and Eugenia Caracciolo have also agreed to support the work undertaken by the network.
The Co-ordination of Social Security Entitlements
Robin White continues to participate in Commission-funded legal seminars in the new Member States on the co-ordination of social security. He visited Warsaw in February to take part in a three day legal seminar for the Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund) on the provision of health care across national boundaries. He is scheduled to visit Malta in April for a legal seminar on the co-ordination of benefit entitlement; he visited Malta in February 2004 for a legal seminar on health care provision.
New Book on Free Movement of Persons Published
Professor Robin White’s new book Workers, Establishment and Services in the European Union, ISBN 0 198 26776 2, has been published by Oxford University Press in the Oxford EC Law Library series.
The free movement of persons and services are key elements, alongside the free movement of goods and capital, in the fundamental freedoms which underpin the European internal market. In recent years two key themes have emerged from the case law of the European Court of Justice. The first is convergence in the case law on the free movement of goods, persons and services in order to ensure the operation of the internal market through the prohibition of discrimination and the outlawing of unjustified obstacles to free movement. The second is the case law on the rights which flow from the introduction of citizenship of the European Union; this line of cases introduces a constitutional right to free movement for Union citizens.
The tensions between these two lines of authority can be explained through a fresh approach to the analysis and synthesis of the treaty rules and secondary legislation of the European Community and of the case law of the Court of Justice on free movement of persons and services. This approach is based on distinguishing between those rules which relate mainly to the regulation of business activities in the internal market, and those which are mainly concerned with individual rights for citizens of the European Union. The intention is to offer a modern exposition of the law relating to workers, establishment and services in the European Union without over-elaboration or over-simplification.
Professor White Visits Cyprus and Luxembourg
In September Professor Robin White visited Cyprus to speak at a seminar for the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance on the co-ordination of social security under European Union Law, and was a guest of the Court of Justice in Luxembourg at a Judicial and Academic Visit hosted by the British judiciary at the Court.
Book on Irregular Migration and Human Rights Published
Irregular Migration and Human Rights: Theoretical, European and International Perspectives, edited by Barbara Bogusz, Dr Ryszard Cholewinski, Dr Adam Cygan and Professor Erika Szyszczak, was published in June 2004 by Brill Academic Publishers under the imprint of Martinus Nijhoff.
This book follows the International Conference on Irregular Migration and Human Rights held at the University of Leicester in June 2003, which gathered together prominent scholars, policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of migration and human rights. The book's objective is to discuss the human rights dimensions of irregular migration from theoretical, European and international perspectives. Other CELI Members who have essays in this volume are Professor David Bonner, Dr Mark Bell and Dr Sylvie Da Lomba.
Download the flyer for the book.
CELI Members Publish Chapters in Book on EU Charter
Both Pascale Lorber
and Professor Robin White
have chapters in The
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Politics, Law and Policy, a
collection of essays edited by Steve Peers and Angela Ward published in
May 2004 by Hart Publishing, which explore the significance of the EU Charter.
Pascale has written a chapter looking at the impact of the Charter on labour
law, and Robin White has contributed a chapter on social security.
Seminar on Worker Participation: National and European Trends
This one-day seminar took place on Friday 14th May 2004. It was organised with financial support from the Modern Law Review. Its aim was to debate aspects of industrial democracy in the UK in a comparative and European light. The seminar gathered five key speakers from the UK and France. For further details see (retrospective webpage).
Centre for European Law and Integration Annual Lecture 2004
Professor Neil Walker, Dean of Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, delivered the CELI Annual Lecture entitled "After Europe's Constitutional Moment" on Friday 27 February 2004. Professor Walker's lecture was a development of earlier thoughts in a paper entitled "After the Constitutional Moment".
Professor Neil Walker
Professor Robin White visits Malta
Professor Robin White visited Malta in February 2004 as part of the pre-accession arrangements in order to participate in a Commission-funded seminar on the co-ordination of social security. While in Malta, he gave a public lecture in a series organised by the EU-Malta Information Centre; other speakers in the series were Neil Kinnock, and the President of Lithuania. He was also able to spend some time with three students from Malta who are reading for the LLM in European Union Law, and enjoyed lunch with them on the day of the Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck in St Paul’s Bay. Ian Spiteri Bailey graduates from the programme in July 2004 and is a MEP candidate in the June elections; Dorianne Borg Gerada who is in the second year of the programme is on leave from her post in the financial services agency to undertake work as a translator in the European Commission in Luxembourg; and Manfred Galdes works for the financial services agency and is on the first year of the programme.
CELI Member's Book on European Refugee Law Published
Dr. Sylvie Da Lomba's
book on
The Right to seek Refugee Status in the European Union was published
recently by academic publisher Intersentia.
Irregular Migration and Human Rights Conference
The Centre for European Law and Integration organised a highly successful conference on Irregular Migration and Human Rights on June 28th and 29th 2003. The papers were given by renown migration experts in law and other social science disciplines. The conference attracted a wide range of participants from the academic community across the whole of Europe and from international and non-governmental organisations concerned with migration issues. The Conference was supported financially by the University of Leicester, the Council of Europe, the British Academy and the Society of Legal Scholars. The revised papers will appear in an edited volume entitled Irregular Migration and Human Rights: Theoretical, European and International Perspectives to be published by Koninklijke Brill NV under the imprint of Martinus Nijhoff in the first half of 2004.
Centre for European Law and Integration Annual Lecture 2003
The lecture was delivered by Judge Fidelma Macken from the Court of Justice of the European Communities entitled "The future of the European Court of Justice after the Nice Treaty" on 16th May 2003 at 5.30pm.
Seminar on the Open Method of Co-ordination
On Wednesday 7 May 2003, CELI hosted a Seminar on the Open Method of Co-ordination. This new method of decision-making within the EU was investigated in depth in the following papers:
"Tackling Social Exclusion Through OMC: What's Law Got to Do With
It?"
Kenneth A. Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary and Westfield
College, London
"Combating Racism through Open Methods of Cooperation"
Dr Mark Bell, University of Leicester
"The European Employment Strategy: A Case Study of the Open Method
of Co-ordination"
Samantha Velluti, PhD Student, University of Nottingham
"The Open Method of Co-ordination - Taming the New Kid on
the Block"
Professor Erika Szyszczak, University of Leicester
Seminar details
Services of General Interest Seminar
On Friday 11 April 2003 the Centre for European Law and Integration and the Centre for Utility Consumer Law with The European Network of Researchers in Services of General Interest hosted a one day seminar on Services of General Interest in Europe.
British Academy Visiting Lecturer
On Tuesday March 4th 2003 at 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered a lecture entitled:
“Constitutional Protection For Awkward Religious Practices: From Child beating to Imbibing Marijuana”
Earlier on Tuesday March 4th at 12.30 pm Justice Sachs presented a seminar in the Law Department on
“Mothers and Fathers, Gays and Lesbians: The Right To Be the Same and the Right to be Different”.