Lecture Series The European Union as Global International Actor: strategic autonomy in a changing international context

The Department of Law of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg, with the support of the Luxembourg National Research Fund and the Erasmus + Programme of the European Commission, and in collaboration with the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, is organising this lecture.

Prof. Isabelle Bosse-Platière, University of Rennes

Discussants: Prof. Peter Van Elsuwege, Ghent University ,and Dr. Luigi Lonardo, University College Cork

(Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, RESCOM/2024/LE/18832235 and the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union, ERASMUS-JMO-2024-HEI-TCH-RSCH)

Abstract

In a complex geopolitical context of increasing threats, the conference will address the international security issues facing the EU from a legal perspective. The constitutional framework of the EU, such as the division of competences, the distribution of institutional powers and judicial review, will be discussed, as well as the various instruments that the EU can adopt in view of the EU's objective of balancing respect for its fundamental values and the defense of its interests in its external action.

Speaker

Isabelle Bosse-Platière has been a Professor of Public/European Law since 2008 and has been based at the University of Rennes since 2010. She is currently head of the doctoral programme in European Integration Law at the Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe (IODE, UMR CNRS). Previously from 2019 to 2024, she was Director of the IODE and during the same period, member of the French National University Council (CNU). She specialises in European Union Law and her research focuses mainly on the EU External Relations Law. Her analyses focus mainly on the institutional dimension of EU external action and its judicial aspects and from a substantive point of view, on the legal aspects of the CFSP and the EU's development policy. She is co-responsible for the chronicle "Action extérieure de l'UE" published in the Revue trimestrielle de droit européen (RTD eur.) on a yearly basis. She has held a Jean Monnet Chair on EU and is a visiting professor at several foreign universities. She is currently in charge of a project funded by the French National Research Agency entitled “Promoting EU Values in a World in Crisis”.

Discussants

Peter Van Elsuwege is professor of EU law and Jean Monnet Chair at Ghent University, where he is co-director of the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI). He is also visiting professor at the College of Europe and board member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) at the Asser Institute in The Hague. His research activities essentially focus on the law of EU external relations. He published extensively in leading law journals such as Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, European Constitutional Law Review and others.

Luigi Lonardo is a lecturer in EU law at University College Cork, Ireland, where he directs the Centre for European Integration. He is also adjunct lecturer in European Security and Defence Policy at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Previously he has been a lecturer and visiting lecturer in EU law at King’s College London and at the University of Westminster. He is the author of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy After Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022) and Russia's 2022 War Against Ukraine and the EU's Foreign Policy Reaction: Context, Diplomacy, and Law (Palgrave Macmillan 2023).

Location

University of Luxembourg

Campus Kirchberg - Weicker Building

Room B001 (ground floor)

4, rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg

Language

English

RESCOM/24/18832235

The European Union as global international actor: strategic autonomy in a changing international context

Past lectures

27 January: Greening International Investment Law, Prof. Joanna Lam, University of Copenhagen. Discussant: Dr Günes Ünüvar, Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL)

10 March: European Strategic Autonomy and European Values in the Context of Crisis, Prof. Federico Casolari, University of Bologna. Discussant: Prof. Ramses Wessel, University of Groningen

4 April: Digital Strategic Autonomy in the EU’s External Action, Prof. Elaine Fahey, City University of London. Discussants: Prof. Stefan Braum, University of Luxembourg, Prof. Herwig Hofmann, University of Luxembourg

8 May: Protecting EU Interests: The Unilateral Turn in EU Trade and Investment Policy, Prof. Isabelle Van Damme, World Trade Institute and University of Bern. Discussant: Dr. Thomas Verellen, Utrecht University

Upcoming lectures

5 June: The Foreing Subsidies Regulation: The External Dimension of EU Competition Policy, Prof Wolfgang Weiss, University Speyer

16 June: Sustainable Development and Strategic Autonomy in the EU’s Bilateral Relations, Prof Francesca Ippolito, University of Cagliari, Dr Jed Odermatt, City University of London

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