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European Union Law Working Group

The European Union Law Working Group is an initiative of new researchers from the Department of Law whose research projects are related to various domains of European Union Law. Research interests are diverse and include EU constitutional law, the EU institutions, protection of fundamental rights, data protection, financial stability, Banking Union, euro crisis law, EU external relations and trade law. The Group's main goal is to provide a platform for regular peer-review of developments in the research of its members. The timetable for the current academic year envisages meetings, twice a month. In the first term, discussion will concentrate on First Year Researchers' preliminary research questions. The focus of meetings in the second and third terms will be determined by developments in members' research and interests. All EUI law researchers, LL.M. or Ph.D., looking for opportunities to receive a feedback on their work from their peers, are welcome to participate in the Group. Researchers from other departments who are interested in issues related to EU law, as well as professors, fellows, visiting researchers and other academics, are also welcome.

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Events in Academic Year 2024-2025

  • 09.12.2025: Presentation ‘Rethinking the EU Judicial System after the 2024 Reform of the Statute of the CJEU’ by Tanja Hilpold (Université du Luxembourg) together with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group, Chair: Renan Bodin.

  • 20.11.2025: CJEU in Focus #13: Clarifying the distinction between personal data and pseudonymised data: C-413/23 EDPS v. SRB with Speaker Renan Bodin and Discussant Leander Samuel Stähler (KU Leuven/CITIP).

  • 03.11.2025: Presentation ‘On the strategic use of litigation in corporate lobbying’ by Sofie Fleerackers (University of Amsterdam/KU Leuven) together with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group, Chair: Ella de Jonge.

  • 16.10.2025: CJEU in Focus #12: Cross-Border Telemedicine in the EU after Österreichische Zahnärztekammer (C-115/24) with guest speaker Sebastian Scholz (University of Graz) and Chair Renan Bodin.

  • 16.05.2025: Presentation ‘How urban conflicts contribute to shape EU rules governing urban mobility transitions?’ by presentation by Carlo Colombo (Maastricht University and Sciences Po Paris), discussants Giacomo Tagiuri (University of Amsterdam) Luca Tenreira (European University Institute); Chair: Hubert Sitnik.

  • 14.05.2025: Book Presentation ‘Direct Effect in EU Law’ (Oxford University Press 2025) by Daniele Gallo, Chair: Ieva Hūna.

  • 07.05.2025: CJEU in focus # 11: Collective redundancies, unjustified dismissal, and the denied horizontality of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (C-196/23 Plamaro), Speaker: Mark Steiert, Chair: Hubert Sitnik.

  • 02.05.2025: Presentation “'Integration-Through-Law': Grand Theory, Revisionist History” by Robert Schütze, Chair: Alex Schuster.

  • 09.04.2025: Visiting Researchers’ Forum ‘A TEU dialogue: rule of law, constitutional identity, and institutional balance’ with speakers Meret Plucis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Agné Oseckyté (Lund University) and Alessandro Cuomo (Maastricht University), Chair: Ella De Junge.

  • 07.04.2025: Values in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union, with guest speakers Luigi Malferrari (European Commission and EUI), Esther Martinez (RECLAIM), Alberto De Gregorio (European Commission), Alejandro Menéndez (RECLAIM), Chair: Clara Mueller.

  • 13.03.2025: CJEU in Focus #10: Real Madrid Club de Fútbol v. Le Monde, speaker Paulina Milewska (EUI), Chair: Clara Mueller.

  • 05.03.2025: Visiting Researchers’ Forum ‘The EU’s Evolving Legal Order’ with speakers Meret Plucis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Areg Navasartian Havani and Daniel Gosch (Universität Graz), chair: Ieva Hūna.

  • 03.03.2025: Presentation ‘Repositioning Free Movement of Services’ by Barend Joppe Van Leeuwen, Chair: Clara Mueller.

  • 21.02.2025: Discussion ‘Values and culture as normativity in European societies and European law’ with speakers Patricia Jerónimo (Jean Monnet Fellow, EUI), Joyce De Coninck (Max Weber Fellow, EUI), Nikko Kulke (PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), Davide Tomaselli (PhD Student, EUI), Narin Nosrati (PhD Student, LMU Munich); Chair: Renan Bodin.

  • 19.02.2025: Presentation ‘The Foundational Vocabulary of EU law’ by Jacobus Van De Beeten (European University Institute), discussant Barend Joppe Van Leeuwen (EUI - Department of Law); Chair: Ieva Hūna.

  • 13.02.2025: CJEU in Focus #9: At the intersection of gender identity and free movement rights (C-4/23 Mirin), Chair: Clara Mueller.

  • 13.12.2024: CJEU in Focus #8

  • 27.11.2024: Visiting Researchers’ Forum ‘The influence of the EU legal order on national structures’ with speakers Georgia Theodorakakou (University of Luxembourg) and Ilaria Gambardella (KU Leuven/ Université Libre de Bruxelles), Chair: Johannes Mueller.

  • 18.11.2024: Book Presentation: ‘EU Neighbourhood Law – Wider Europe and the extended EU's legal space’ by Alessandro Petti (University of Oslo), discussant: Saverio Della Corte; chair: Johannes Mueller.