Celebrating the everyday life of the EUI Law Department

• Department of Law

To mark its 50th anniversary, the Law Department brings together past and present members of its community for two days of conversations, memories and encounters at Villa Salviati.

The conference will open with a welcome by Nicolas Petit, Head of the EUI Law Department, and Arnulf Becker Lorca, scientific organiser of the event, who will introduce the programme and the ideas behind the two-day celebration. Please note that this event is reserved for members of the EUI Law community and attendance is by invitation only.

Thursday 17 September – Thinking Europe and the International at the EUI

The first day revisits key strands of the Department's intellectual history through conversations with former and current members of the EUI Law community:

• Renewing the European dream: thinking and reforming Europe at the EUI – Silvana Sciarra, Bruno de Witte, Deirdre Curtin and Davide Tomaselli
• From the law of the horse to the regulation of AI: The past, present and future of law and technology at the EUI – Marta Cantero Gamito, Francisco de Abreu Duarte and Nicolas Petit
• Thinking and recreating the International at the EUI – Martin Scheinin, Neha Jain, Sarah Nouwen and Aikaterini Koinaki
• The international criminal accountability project at the EUI: Antonio Cassese and beyond – Antonio Tanca and Salvatore Zappalà
• Competition, IP and Economic Law at the EUI – Nicolas Petit, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Inge Govaere and Giuliano Amato
• Meet Megan Donaldson, our new International Law Professor – Megan Donaldson
• From the Hills of Fiesole: the contribution of the EUI to legal thought – Bruno de Witte, Johannes Müller and Ivanka Karaivanova
• Interrogating the European project as a constitutional project – Gráinne de Búrca, Silvia Suteu and Lilla Farkas

Friday 18 September – Living Through Encounters and Research

The second day will open with welcome remarks by EUI President Patrizia Nanz, before turning to life at the Department across generations and the evolution of different areas of legal scholarship:

• The way we lived at the EUI – Bryant Garth, Machteld Nijsten, Samuel Engblom, Iryna Ulasiuk and Noora Arajärvi
• The most beautiful time of my life... – Gunther Teubner and Arnulf Becker Lorca, followed by the lecture Emergence and personification: How the Law makes non-human entities speak
• Feminist Jurisprudence at the EUI & more – Silvia Suteu, Giovanna Gilleri and Anna Maria Konsta
• Meet our Heads of Department – Nicolas Petit, Joanne Scott and Deirdre Curtin
• The view from the inside – Departmental Coordinators and professional staff
• Max Weber Fellowship & the Law Department – Sergio Puig and Justina Uriburu
• Law in context at the EUI: Old and New – Gráinne de Búrca, Joanne Scott, Deirdre Curtin and Bryant Garth
• Critical Legal Theory today – Sophia Ayada and Martijn Hesselink

Throughout both afternoons, a treasure hunt across Villa Salviati will take participants through the Department's history, with sessions dedicated to PhD dissertations and books produced by researchers and professors, as well as dedicated Academy of European Law and Alumni booths.