Internal Market Regulatory Challenges Post-Lisbon

The Doctoral School of Law of the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) are inviting you to the keynote lecture supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund.

Abstract

The lecture reflects on key challenges for the EU internal market from a regulatory perspective against the backdrop of important legal, economic and geo-political changes. From an internal perspective, it revisits both the potential of the internal market objectives laid down in Article 3(3) TEU and the practice of regulating through article 114 TFEU. From an external perspective, it ponders on implications for the EEA, the EU common commercial policy and the pursuit of open strategic autonomy.

This lecture is presented in the context of the Conference THE EU’S GREEN AND DIGITAL TRANSITION, MULTI-LEVEL ENFORCEMENT AND THE INTERACTION OF LEGAL ORDER, and supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund PRIDE23/18689571/GREITMA

Speaker

Inge Govaere is Professor of EU Law and Director of the Ghent European Law Institute (G.E.L.I.). She is also the Director of the European Legal Studies Department at the College of Europe in Bruges.

She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy). Inge Govaere was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Cornell University (Ithaca NY, USA) and has been a visiting professor or given conferences and guest lectures at many universities worldwide, among others Columbia University (N.Y., USA), Yale University (C.T., USA), Curtin University (Perth, Australia), University of Sao Paolo (Brazil), Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II, France), University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), World Trade Institute (Bern, Switzerland), European University Institute (EUI) (Firenze, Italy), and Cambridge University (UK).

Her academic interests vary from EU external relations law to Rule of Law in the EU, Internal Market and EU intellectual property rights. She published over 20 books on EU law, lately “The Division of Competences between the European Union and its Member States: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future”, “The EU Better Regulation Agenda”, “The Interface Between EU and International Law: Contemporary Reflections”, “Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union”, “EU External Relations Post-Lisbon: The Law and Practice of Facultative Mixity”, Brill (2020); “The Internal Market 2.0”, “The Impact of War (in Ukraine) on the EU”, “Activating Human and Fundamental Rights Before the European Courts”, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2025 (at press).

She is co-President of the Belgian Association for EU Law (BEDER) and a member of the Expert Panel assisting the EU Commission in the selection of candidates to perform the duties of members of international investment courts and tribunals and of rosters or other international courts (‘the Panel’) (Commission Decision (EU) 2021/1711 of 23 September 2021, O.J. L 339/123).

Inge Govaere was elected as member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts/Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB) in 2016.

Location

University of Luxembourg

Campus Kirchberg - Weicker Building

room B001 (ground floor)

4, rue Alphonse Weicker

L-2721 Luxembourg

Language

English