Book Colloquium: The EU Constitution in Time of War

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7ayi9uEUQcaIDXr8emh99A

Participants (see below for more detailed bios):

Federico Fabbrini: Author of the book, Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of Dublin City University (DCU), the Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and of the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI)

Catherine Barnard: FBA, FLSW, FRSA, Professor of EU law and Employment Law and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University

Paul Craig: FBA, Emeritus Professor of English Law, Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford University

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (moderator): Anniversary Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Previously she was Professor of European and Human Rights law at Oxford University

Description of the book:

Russia’s illegal aggression against Ukraine has been a watershed moment for the European Union (EU). Embracing a comparative analytical framework, this book examines how the EU constitution has functioned in response to Russia’s aggression. It scrutinizes the EU’s legal reactions across five key policy areas: foreign, security, and defence policy; economic and fiscal policy; justice and home affairs; energy and industrial policy; and enlargement and reform. In doing so, it investigates whether the EU constitution has enabled the EU to respond effectively to the war, how EU treaties have been interpreted to authorize war-related actions, and whether these responses have adhered to constitutional limits. It is the first systematic analysis of how the EU constitution has fared in wartime. Access here for more detailed information about the book.

Participants bios:

Federico Fabbrini: Full Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of Dublin City University (DCU), the Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and of the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI). He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute and previously held academic positions in the Netherlands and Denmark. He has been a Fellow in Law & Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. He is the author of 5 monographs in English (all published by Oxford University Press), and the editor or co-editor of a dozen books. He has also authored several studies and reports for the European Parliament and the Department of Finance of Ireland. He has won over €3 millions of external funding.

Catherine Barnard: FBA, FLSW, FRSA, Professor of EU law and Employment Law and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University.  She is the author of EU Employment Law (OUP, 2012, 5th ed), European Union Law (OUP, 2020, 3^rd ed) and others. She is a member of the European Commission funded European Labour Law Network (ELLN) and a Senior Fellow and deputy director of the UK in a Changing Europe project (UKCE). She has appeared on the main media channels – BBC, ITV and Sky – as well as many more specialist programmes. She has also written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has given evidence to numerous select committees on the legal issues connected with Brexit, immigration and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act. She sits on the advisory board of Oxford Global Society.

Paul Craig: FBA, Emeritus Professor of English Law, Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford University. He specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, EU law and comparative public law, and has published extensively in all areas. He held the position of Professor of English Law at Oxford University since 1998 to 2019. He is the author of a number of legal textbooks, the most well-known of which (EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials) was published in its 5th edition by Oxford University Press in September 2011. He was appointed an honorary Queen’s Counsel in 2000.

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott: Anniversary Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Previously she was Professor of European and Human Rights law at Oxford University and before that Professor of Law at King’s College London. She retains a link with Oxford as honorary research fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was LAPA fellow at Princeton 2020-2021, and special advisor to Scottish Parliament European and External Affairs Brexit enquiries 2015-2018. Her book ‘Brexit and British Constitutional unsettlement’ (the product of her Leverhulme fellowship) is published by Cambridge UP in 2022. She is also a Fellow at Oxford Global Society.