EU Law Discussion Group
About the Group
The EU Law Discussion Group is a forum for discussing, in an informal environment, current issues of European Community law. Staff members and students are encouraged to present a paper that will constitute the starting point for discussion within the group, and occasionally speakers from other universities or institutions are invited. The group meets two or three times a term and is open to all Faculty members and graduate law students.
Convenor: Dorota Leczykiewicz
Student contacts: Vasiliki Brisimi Julian Nowag Maria Ioannidou
Senior members: Katja Ziegler Dorota Leczykiewicz
Papers and other downloads
Johnston, Defining and Identifying Spillovers from EU Law into National Law
Alter, The Global Spread of European Style International Courts
Alter and Helfer, Nature or Nurture?
To view the presentation by Barbara Havelkova, please click here
European Law and international law after Kadi - Paper
Competence and Counter-terrorism measures - Paper
Free Movement, Competition and Services of General (Economic) Interest - PowerPoint Presentation
Forthcoming Group Events
May 2012
Wednesday 16 May 2012 Week 4
- The Regulation of State Aid in the EU: Is It Time to Give Up?
- Speaker: Professor Andrea Biondi, King's College London
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
Wednesday 30 May Week 6
- The Identity of the Subject of EU Law: National-rooted or Euro-bonded?
- Speaker: Professor Loïc Azoulai, European University Institute, Florence
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
Previous Group Events
May 2012
Wednesday 2 May 2012
- International Law and EU Law: Between Asymmetric Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation
- Speaker: Dr Katja Ziegler, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
March 2012
Wednesday 7 March
- The Protection of National Identity through EU Law: a "People's Europe" or a "Europe of Citizens"
- Speaker: Dr Daniel Sarmiento, Court of Justice of the EU
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
February 2012
Wednesday 22 February
- Social Ideals of the European Court of Justice: an Approximation
- Cancelled
Speaker: Professor Dagmar Schiek, University of Leeds
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
Wednesday 8 February
- EU External Competence in the Field of International Investments: a Complex Take-over
- Speaker: Professor Pär Hallström, Umeå University
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
Thursday 2 February
- Common European Sales Law: Why, and Why Not
- Speaker: Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick), Professor Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 1700
January 2012
Wednesday 25 January
- Competition Law and Public Policy as a Sliding Scale: the Example of Environmental Protection
- Speaker: Julian Nowag, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
2012
November 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011
- Criminal Law Beyond the State: the European Model
- Speaker: Dr Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Wednesday 16 November
- The Court of Justice as a Labour Court
- Speaker: Professor Anne Davies, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Wednesday 2 November
- The Relationship between Private and Public Enforcement
- Speaker: Dr Assimakis Komninos, White & Case LLP and Visiting Fellow, UCL
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
October 2011
Wednesday 19 October
- Varieties of Capitalism and the Limits of European Economic Integration
- Speaker: Professor Jukka Snell, Swansea University
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
May 2011
Wednesday 25 May
- Multilingual EU Law: on the Significance of Translation for Legal Harmonisation
- Speaker: Dr Sieglinde Pommer, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institute of European and Comparative Law Room 19 and IECL Foyer for lunch at 12.30 at 13:00
Wednesday 11 May
- Federalism and Economic Mobility in the EU and Australia: the Role of the Courts
- Speaker: David Townsend, Oxford University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Room 19 and IECL Foyer for lunch at 12.30 at 13:00
March 2011
Wednesday 9 March
- Defining and Identifying "Spillovers" from EU Law into National Law
- Speaker: Angus Johnston, University College, Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 12:30
February 2011
Wednesday 23 February
- The Constitutional Role of the Court of Justice in the Internal Market Post-Harmonisation: Tax Exceptionalism or Jurisprudential Consistency?
- Speaker: Rita de la Feria and Dimitrios Doukas, Oxford Centre for Business Taxation and Queen's University Belfast
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 12:30
Wednesday 9 February
- Free Movement of Goods and Rules on Use: a Step towards a Workable Doctrine of MEQR
- Speaker: Dr Johan Lindholm, Umeå University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 12:30
January 2011
Friday 28 January
- The Global Spread of European Style International Courts
- Speaker: Karen Alter, Northwestern University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Law Board Room (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 12:30
December 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
- The Goals of EU Competition Law after Lisbon
- Speaker: Constanze Semmelmann, University of Fribourg
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C at 1230
November 2010
Wednesday 17 November
- European Executive Federalism after Lisbon
- Speaker: Robert Schütze , University of Durham
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C at 1230
Wednesday 3 November
- Has the Treaty of Lisbon Provided 'Principles' of EU Sports Law?
- Speaker: Stephen Weatherill, Somerville College
Institute of European and Comparative Law Room 19 (with lunch available in the IECL Foyer from 1230) at 1300
October 2010
Friday 22 October
- Human Rights in the EU after Lisbon: the Charter and the ECHR Accession
- Speaker: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Dorota Leczykiewicz, Barbara Havelková
Institute of European and Comparative Law Gulbenkian at 1630
May 2010
Wednesday 19 May
- The Constitutional Role of the Court of Justice in the Internal Market Post-Harmonisation: Tax Exceptionalism or Jurisprudential Consistency?
- Cancelled
Speaker: Rita de la Feria and Dimitrios Doukas, Oxford University and Queens University Belfast
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 1230
Wednesday 12 May
- Free Movement of Goods and Rules on Use: a Step Towards a Workable Doctrine of MEQR
- Cancelled
Speaker: Johan Lindholm, Umeå University
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 1230
Wednesday 5 May
- The Taciturn (European) Court: the Walls of Judicial Silence and their Intended and Unintended Effects
- Speaker: Hjalte Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 1230
April 2010
Wednesday 28 April
- The Public/Private Divide in EU Law
- Speaker: Okeoghene Odudu, University of Cambridge
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 1230
March 2010
Wednesday 10 March
- The Primacy and Direct Effect of EU Law after the Lisbon Treaty
- Speaker: Bruno de Witte, European University Institute
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C (lunch and meeting) at 1230
Wednesday 3 March
- The Hierarchy of Norms Post-Lisbon: Law and Politics
- Speaker: Paul Craig, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer for lunch and Seminar Room C at 1230
February 2010
Friday 26 February
- Linguistic transparency in the EU and at the Court of Justice: is clear language attainable in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural legislative and judicial environment?
- Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer for lunch and Seminar Room C at 1230
Wednesday 17 February
- Establishing the Rule of Law in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme
- Speaker: Konrad Lachmayer, University of Vienna
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer for lunch and Seminar Room C at 1230
Wednesday 10 February
- Rethinking European Private Law: Regulation and Autonomy
- Speaker: Hans Micklitz, European University Institute
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer for lunch and Seminar Room C at 1230
January 2010
Wednesday 27 January
- Horizontal Liability in EU Law
- Speaker: Norbert Reich, University of Bremen
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL Foyer for lunch and Seminar Room C at 1230
November 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
- Problems of EU Environmental Law
- Speaker: Ludwig Krämer, Universities of Bremen and Copenhagen
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 18 November
Wednesday 11 November
- International Law and the Community Legal Order: Uneasy Bed Fellows?
- Speaker: Takis Tridimas, Queen Mary London
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 4 November
- Environmental Principles in European Courts: Principles in a Legal Sense?
- Speaker: Eloise Scotford, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
October 2009
Wednesday 28 October
- The EU and Global Labour Law
- Speaker: Jeffrey Kenner, University of Nottingham
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 21 October
- The Boundaries of Free Movement Law: Exploring the Idea of 'Framework Principles'
- Speaker: Niamh Nic Shuibhne, University of Edinburgh
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
May 2009
Wednesday 20 May
- Legal Interpretation in 23 Languages - the Complexity of the Multilingual Interpretation of EC Law
- Speaker: Dr Mattias Derlen, Umea University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C and IECL (lunch) at 1300
Wednesday 13 May
- Europe's Constitutional Mosaic: New Transnational Human Rights Standards and Regimes
- Speaker: Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Lady Margaret Hall
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 6 May
- EU External Policies and Application of EU Law by Judiciaries in the EU Neighbourhood: Cases of Russia and Ukraine
- Change of date
Speaker: Dr Roman Petrov, Donetsk National University, Ukraine
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
April 2009
Wednesday 29 April
- Foreign Affairs in Federations: Mixed Agreements - a Sui Generis Technique?
- Speaker: Dr Robert Schütze , University of Durham
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
March 2009
Wednesday 11 March
- Horizontal Effect of Treaty Provisions and the General Principle of Equality after Viking and Mangold
- Speaker: Professor Derrick Wyatt, St Edmund Hall
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 4 March
- From Brussels with Love: the Transatlantic Travels of European Law and the Chemistry of Regulatory Attraction
- Speaker: Professor J. Scott, University College London
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
February 2009
Wednesday 25 February
- Appointing Foxes to Guard Henhouses - the European Posted Workers' Directive
- Speaker: Aravind Ganesh, Lincoln College
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 18 February
- Solidarity - an Emerging Paradigm in EU Law
- Speaker: Professor Malcolm Ross, University of Sussex
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 11 February
- Direct Democracy, the Irish Supreme Court and the Treaty of Lisbon - Or How to Cause a Crisis in the European Union Without Really Trying
- Speaker: Dr Gavin Barrett, University College, Dublin
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Friday 6 February
- European Investment Bank and Legal Instrumentalism
- Speaker: Roderick Dunnett, Visiting Fellow, Durham University
Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
January 2009
Friday 30 January
- The Kadi Judgment
- Speaker: Professor Marise Cremona, European University Institute
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 21 January
- Judicial Precedent in European Constitutional Pluralism - a Framework of Analysis
- Speaker: Jan Komarek, Somerville College
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL (Lunch) and Seminar Room C at 12:30
November 2008
Wednesday 26 November 2008
- General principles of EU law
- Speaker: Dr Xavier Groussot, Lund University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
Wednesday 19 November
- Fundamental freedoms v. economic rights
- Speaker: Dr Eleanor Spaventa, Durham University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
Wednesday 12 November
- Levels of generality in the legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice
- Speaker: Gerard Conway, Brunel University and Queen's University Belfast
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
Wednesday 5 November
- Production methods as obstacles to trade: can states in the EU regulate, tax or purchase goods according to the way they are made?
- Speaker: Professor Gareth Davies, Free University of Amsterdam
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
October 2008
Monday 27 October
- The Lucchini case and the principle of effectiveness
- Speaker: Professor Luigi Daniele, University of Rome
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
Wednesday 22 October
- The international role of the European Union: should we lament the fate of the Reform Treaty?
- Speaker: Professor Panos Koutrakos, University of Bristol
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
Wednesday 15 October
- Metock - EU citizens and family reunification explore
- Speaker: Cathryn Costello, Worcester College, Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law Institute of European and Comparative Law at 12:30
May 2008
Friday 23 May
- Abuse of Law in European Tax and Company Law
- Cancelled
Speaker: Professor Dr Wolfgang Schön, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich and University of Munick
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room C at 12:30
Wednesday 21 May
- The Emerging EU Collective Labour Law: Reflections on the Basis of the Viking Line and Laval Cases
- Speaker: Professor Ulf Bernitz, University of Stockholm and Institute of European and Comparative Law
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL and Seminar Room C at 12:30
Monday 14 May 2007
- In the Court(s) We Trust? On the need for hierarchy and differentiation in the preliminary ruling
- Speaker: Jan Komárek, Somerville College
Institute of European and Comparative Law IECL and Seminar Room C at 12:13
