This event is organised by the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group and will feature a presentation by Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki) and Peter Lindseth (UConn School of Law).
This talk by Päivi Leino-Sandberg and Peter Lindseth is based on the manuscript they are currently completing for OUP. The talk will provide background on the overall thesis and aims of the book, which examines the emergence of, and legal foundations for, the NGEU model (collective borrowing, governance by planning and spending, etc); the extensions and deviations of that model into new contexts over the last several years; and whether and to what extent the NGEU model provides a possible basis for a more permanent transformation in the integration project going forward. For discussion purposes, an excerpt from the manuscript will be circulated to attendees before the talk.
Speaker bios:
Päivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law, University of Helsinki, and Deputy Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights where she has led various international research projects relating to EU decision-making and governance. She specialises in EU constitutional and institutional law, engages often in multidisciplinary work and uses empirical methods. Before returning full-time to academia in 2015, she worked for over 10 years as a legal adviser for the Finnish government, participating in numerous EU and international negotiations and Court cases. She continues to advise in particular, the Parliament of Finland and various other institutions. Her writings have appeared in lead journals in the field and been quoted by the EU Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court. She has previously worked as Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Professor of International and European Law at UEF Law School. In addition, she has held various visiting positions including at the European University Institute, NYU Law School, Humboldt University Berlin and the iCourts Centre of Excellence at the University of Copenhagen. Her recent books include a monograph entitled The Politics of Legal Expertise in EU Policymaking (CUP 2021), and three co-edited collections of essays Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policymaking (CUP 2022), (In)visible European Government. Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice (Routledge 2023) and Dynamics of Powers in the European Union (Hart Publishing 2024).
Peter L. Lindseth is Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law and Director, Graduate, International, and Non-JD Programs at UConn School of Law. Peter Lindseth is a legal scholar and historian with strong interests in the comparative origins and evolution of governance structures and public law. His books include a reinterpretation of the history of European integration, Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP), as well as three co-edited volumes on comparative administrative law (from Elgar and OUP), which have redefined that field. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Contemporary European History, the European Law Journal, the Revue française d’administration publique, and the Yale Law Journal, among other publications. In addition to his work at UConn, Peter Lindseth has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School, Princeton, Helsinki, Tilburg, Paris, Aix-Marseille, Luiss University of Rome, and Queen Mary University of London. He has also held several fellowships and research associateships, including at the American Academy in Berlin, the European University Institute, the French Conseil d’Etat, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, NYU School of Law, as well as the University of Oxford Centre for International Studies.
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