The rise of comparative Law

a challenge for legal education in Europe

Over the past years, academics have re-acquired a significant role in the European law-making process. A truly European legal research, based on various networks has developed. This Lecture examines the discrepancy between, on the one hand, the rise of European and comparative law and, on ...

Mind the Gap

the evolving EU executive and the Constitution

Does Europe's constitution stop at the water's edge?

Law and policy in the EU's external relations

This lecture examines the external policies of the EU from a perspective of European constitutionalism. It offers an inquiry into the boundaries between law and policy in the diverse and ever expanding field of EU external relations. The main thesis is that, in a globalised ...