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ACELG Newsletter
March 2019

The ACELG Update informs you about forthcoming events, as well as publications and presentations by members of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance.
News

On 12 February 2019, Maria Weimer was appointed board member of the Amsterdam Young Academy, an independent platform for young scientists from different disciplines, initiated by the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam.

The handbook "The Law of the European Union" edited by Pieter-Jan Kuijper and Deidre Curtin among others, was presented on Friday 11 January 2019 at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut.

Nik de Boer wins Staatsrechtskring dissertation Award 2018. He won this triennial award by the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law for his dissertation ‘Judging European Democracy. National Constitutional Review of European Law and its Democratic Legitimacy.’

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Forthcoming presentations by ACELG members

Eckes, C.
Keynote speaker at ‘Coming home: the post-war return of refugee scholarship’ conference, organised by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity, and the European Narratives of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, 10-12 April 2019

Kuijpers, P.J.
Speaker at the annual meeting of the members of the International Chamber of Commerce Nederland in The Hague on 11 April. The title of his speech is "The Rise and Fall of the (Legal) System for International Trade? The Background to the present Trade Wars."

Schrauwen, A.
Speaker at ‘politiek café’ on Brexit, organised by JOVD (Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy) on 28 March 2019 in Amsterdam

Schrauwen, A.
Talk about Brexit at 'Van Judith tot Juncker: Alles over Europa,' organised by DWARS on 23 March 2019 in Theaterhuis de Berenkuil in Utrecht

Schrauwen, A.
Guest speaker at 'Brexit: Better get Eused to it' organised by SIB-Amsterdam, 1 April 2019 at CREA, Amsterdam

Zeitlin, J.
“After Brexit? Post-Mortem and Future Prospects”, roundtable discussion, 1 April 2019, SPUI25, Amsterdam

Zeitlin, J.
“United in Diversity? European Regulation between Uniformity and Differentiation”, present to Research Colloquium on Innovation in the Public Sphere, 25 April 2019, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Zeitlin, J.
Guest lectures “Experimentalist Interactions: The EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Initiative and Transnational Forest Governance”, and “The Influence of the European Semester on National Reforms: Analytical Framework and Empirical Synthesis” at European Union Studies Association (EUSA) International Biennial Conference, 9-11 May 2019, Denver, USA

Zeitlin, J.
Guest lectures “United in Diversity? European Regulation between Uniformity and Differentiation”, and “Experimentalist Interactions: The Emerging Timber Legality Regime and Transnational Forest Governance”, at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 27-29 June 2019, New York, USA # In addition Jonathan Zeitlin is co-organiser, SASE Regulation and Governance Research Network

Weimer, M.
Book presentation, ‘Risk Regulation in the Internal Market - Lessons from Agricultural Biotechnology,’ 11 April 2019, Europa Institute, Leiden University
Past presentations by ACELG members

Eckes, C.
‘Broodje Politiek: Chances & Challenges of EU external relations’, presentation to the Studium Generale at TU Delft, Delft, 12 March 2019

Kuijpers, P.J.
Guest speaker at ‘Eigen Handel Eerst,’ VPRO Tegenlicht Meet Up, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, 20 March 2019

Morvillo, M.
Guest speaker at European Risk Forum Roundtable on 'Judicial review in time of developing scientific insights,' Brussels, 19 March 2019

Weimer, M.
Presentation on ‘Risk regulation in the EU internal market - paradoxes and pitfalls’, as part of the part of the European Governance Colloquium, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 21 November 2018

Smits, R.
As an expert on the list of legal and financial experts of P.R.I.M.E. Finance, René Smits participated in its Annual Conference, 4-5 February 2019, Peace Palace, The Hague, and was a speaker at the panel on Sustainable Finance and Emerging Markets, which he co-organised. Students from the University of Amsterdam attended the conference as guests.

Zeitlin, J.
 “The Influence of the European Semester on National Reforms: Analytical Framework and Empirical Synthesis”, seminar presentation at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CNRS/PI/EHESS), University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 15 November 2018.

Zeitlin, J.
Discussant, Hearing on “The Strategic Agenda of the European Council: Setting the EU’s Political Priorities”, Clingendael Institute of International Relations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, The Hague, 7 December 2018.

Zeitlin, J.
“The Influence of the European Semester on National Reforms: Analytical Framework and Empirical Synthesis”, presentation to research seminar on Politics and Culture in Europe, Faculty of Arts, Maastricht University, 13 February 2019.
Publications by ACELG members

Blockmans, S. and Koutrakos, P. (eds.)
Research Handbook on EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, 2018, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Blockmans, S.
European Neighbourhood Policy: CFSP in Disguise, in S. Blockmans and P. Koutrakos (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, 2018, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, p.312-330

Blockmans, S. (ed.)
What Comes After the Last Chance Commission? Policy Priorities for 2019-2024 (Brussels: CEPS 2019), 135 pp.

Blockmans, S.
'Neighbourhood, Security and Defence Policies', in S. Blockmans (ed.), What Comes After the Last Chance Commission? Policy Priorities for 2019-2024 (Brussels: CEPS 2019), 33-43

Juncos, A. and Blockmans, S.
The EU’s Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Four Key Challenges in Global Affairs, Vol. 4, Issue 2-3, 2018, 131-140

Blockmans, S.
The EU’s Modular Approach to Defence Integration: An inclusive, ambitious and legally binding PESCO? in 55 Common Market Law Review (2018), No. 6, 1785-1826

Rieker, P. and Blockmans, S.
Plugging the capability-expectations gap: Towards an effective, comprehensive and conflict sensitive EU crisis response? in European Security, 28:1, 1-21

Eckes, C.
EU Powers Under External Pressure - How the EU's External Actions Alter its Internal Structures, 2019, Oxford University Press 

Eckes, C.
Chapter 10 ‘The law and practice of EU sanctions’, in S. Blockmans and P. Koutrakos (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, 2018, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Kuijper, P. J. (ed.), Amtenbrink, F. (ed.), Curtin, D. (ed.), De Witte, B. (ed.), McDonnell, A. (ed.) & Van den Bogaert, S. (ed.),
The Law of the European Union, 5th ed., 2018, Wolters Kluwer, Alphen aan den Rijn.
With individual contributions by ACELG members Kati Cseres, Deirdre Curtin, Pieter-Jan Kuijper, Annette Schrauwen and Maria Weimer

Ruijter, A. de
EU Health Law & Policy - The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care, 2019, Oxford University Press

Schrauwen, A.
From the Board: Towards a Social Europe? Legal Issues of Economic Integration, 45(4), p323-328

Smits, R.
Accountability of the European Central Bank, Ars Aequi, January 2019, p27-37.

Smits, R.
Two updates of the list of banking union-related cases were published at the website of the European Banking Institute (EBI), the European academic joint venture for research on banking regulation: Overview of court cases on banking union, update 21 January and 11 February 2019

Smits, R. and Badenhoop, N.
Towards a single standard of professional secrecy for supervisory authorities – A reform proposal (4 March 2019). Available on SSRN.

Weimer, M.
Risk Regulation in the Internal Market - Lessons from Agricultural Biotechnology, 2019, Oxford University Press
ACELG blog posts

Besselink, L. and Michel, B.
The complications of a Brexit delay that runs into the European Parliament elections, Blogactiv.eu, 14 March 2019

Eckes, C.
Antarctica: Has the Court of Justice Got Cold Feet?, Blogactiv.eu, 5 December 2018

Kuijper, P.J.
Case C-244/17 – Commission v Council: The Centre of Gravity Test Revisited in the Context of Article 218 (9) TFEU, Blogactiv.eu, 5 December 2018

Kuijper, P.J.
Een “institutionele coup d’état” in de EU?, EUexplainer.nl, 20 February 2019

Smits, R.
‘ECJ annuls a national measure against an independent central banker,’ European Law Blog, 5 March 2019

ACELG members in the media

Ruijter, A. de
‘Volgens deze feministen zijn mannen en vrouwen in ons recht nog niet gelijk. Dus kiezen ze voor de aanval’, De Correspondent, 10 January 2019

Schrauwen, A.
interview on a news item on consequences of Brexit for British citizens in Amsterdam, AT5, 15 January 2019

Ruijter, A. de
Gerechtshof: onduidelijk of abortuspil bij huisarts strafbaar is, Volkskrant, 22 February 2019
 
Ruijter, A. de
Bureau Clara Wichmann vecht al 35 jaar voor vrouwenrechten: ‘Veel van wat er in de jaren tachtig speelde, speelt nog steeds, Volkskrant, 5 March 2019

Eckes, C.
interview on Brexit with NPO Radio 1 ‘Nieuws en Co’, 12 March 2019
ACELG guests
How did an Australian become so deeply involved in Brexit and the study of EU law?

Interview with Jed Odermatt (City Law School London) after his joint ACES/ACELG guest lecture on ‘Brexit and Dispute Settlement’ on 19 February 2019
Art and crisis as inspiration for academic work

Interview with Massimo Fichera (University of Helsinki) after his guest lecture on ‘European Constitutionalism, Crisis and the Security of the European Project’ on 25 February 2019
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The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance is a research centre at the University of Amsterdam dedicated to the research of European Union Law in the context of the surrounding legal and political systems and wider structures of (global) governance