This book presentation is organised by the European Union Law Working Group and hosts a presentation by Daniele Gallo (Luiss University).
This event will include the presentation of the book 'Direct Effect in EU Law' (Oxford University Press, 2025), which aims at revisiting the past, present, and future of direct effect in EU law. In so doing, it offers an innovative understanding of this revolutionary doctrine from historical, theoretical, doctrinal, and practical perspectives. The volume explains that direct effect has evolved into a broader legal category than it was at the outset of the European legal integration process in the 1960s and that such evolution has not been properly acknowledged and articulated by the CJEU as to its core components and consequences. The volume intends to reconstruct direct effect beyond the Van Gend en Loos doctrine and ultimately thrives to submit solutions for its appropriate comprehension and enforcement. To this end, the analysis puts forward ten intertwined arguments on the content, scope, and extent of direct effect.
Daniele Gallo is Full Professor of EU Law in the Law Department of Luiss University (Rome), where he is also Co-Director of the LLM in European Law and Policies. At Luiss he held the Jean Monnet Chair in Understanding EU Law in Practice: EU Rights in Action before Courts (PRACT, 2020-2023) and was the Deputy-Provost for the European Alliance ENGAGE.EU (2020-2024), as well as at the Vice-Dean for International Relations (2018-2024) at the Law Department. He is a Fellow at Universidade de Lisboa (since 2020) and has been a Visiting Professor in residence in a number of European and US universities, including Université Panthéon-Assas, American University Washington College of Law, Université Capitole I de Toulouse, Fordham Law School (EU Fulbright Scholar), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (DAAD Scholar), European University Institute (Jean Monnet Fellow). As an Attorney-at-Law, he has pleaded before the European Court of Human Rights, the UNIDROIT Administrative Tribunal and the ILO Administrative Tribunal, and regularly pleads before national jurisdictions, the Court of Justice of the EU, the General Court and the European Commission.