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Executive power is at the core of managing and planning and enforcement with a prioritization of evidence-based decision-making within or to the (political) executive. It is certainly too early to evaluate the scope ...
The European Council: Above and Outside the EU's Separation of Powers?
22 Mar 2021
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Bruno de Witte is professor of European Union law at Maastricht University, and part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He is co-director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law. ...
“I demand justice. I hold them all responsible”: Advancing the Enforcement of Anti-slavery Legislation in Mauritania
15 Mar 2021
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Mauritania was the last state in the world to formally abolish “chattel slavery” in 1980. It has since committed to work towards the elimination of slavery by 2030 under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...
Emerging Female EU Law Scholars Workshop
12 Mar 2021
12:00 - 17:00
Lecture
On March, 12th, 2021, the Amsterdam Center for European Law and Governance (UvA) is organizing a half-day (noon-5pm) online workshop for emerging, non-tenured female scholars working on EU law. During this workshop, ...
A Feminist Foreign Policy for a Climate-Just Future?
1 Mar 2021
15:30 - 17:00
Event
This is the third event in the In Focus Series: “A Feminist EU in the World?” In this event we zoom in on the EU’s policies on Climate Justice and climate change from an (intersectional) feminist perspective. Annica ...
Shifting executive power in EU migration policy: joint implementation and steering through EU agencies
22 Feb 2021
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Executive power in migration has been shifting towards EU agencies to counter the implementation gap, while enhancing intra-EU solidarity. An increasingly integrated administration stirs the challenges of fundamental ...
A feminist foreign policy for the European Union?
2 Feb 2021
14:00 - 15:00
Event
This is the second event in the In Focus Series: A Feminist EU in the World? During this event Hannah Neumann, MEP, Roberta Guerrina and Michelle Pace will explore what a Feminist Foreign Policy for the EU could or ...
Reintroduction of Border Controls in the Schengen Area
26 Jan 2021
13:00 - 14:00
Lecture
In 2015 several EU Member States reintroduced controls at their internal borders as a response to the rising number of asylum applications in the EU. More than five years later, these controls are still in place. An ...
Inside the diplomatic EU Code of Conduct Group: 20 Years of Tackling Harmful Tax Competition
7 Dec 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Martijn Nouwen is an Assistant Professor in Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director of the Institute for Tax Transparency. His presentation will discuss the functioning and effectiveness of the ...
The social foundations of the separation of powers: integrating concept and context
30 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
"When and why does one institution yield to another? This question is central to the effective functioning of any system based on a separation of powers."
Professor Carolan (University College Dublin) is the ...
The Place of Politics in the Concept of Separated Powers
23 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
"Majoritarian decision-making is a constitutive element of any meaningfully democratic concept of separated powers." Christoph Möllers, Dr. jur. (Munich), LL.M. (Chicago) is a Professor of Public Law and ...
Challenging the Validity of EU Acts: International Law as a Sword or a Shield?
9 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Dr Jed Odermatt is a Lecturer at the City Law School, University of London and a member of the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL) and International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG). In this presentation he ...
Human Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
3 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Anna Chadwick will examine the inter play between state obligations to eradicate extreme poverty
and realize socio economic rights under International Human Rights Law and some of
the legal regimes and economic ...
The ECB, the courts and the issue of democratic legitimacy after Weiss
5 Oct 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Event
Why did the Bundesverfassungsgericht and the ECJ come to such different answers in their rulings on the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Programme? In this event, Nik de Boer and Jens van 't Klooster further explore the ...
ACIL-ACELG luncheon: Overlapping Institutions in the United Nations Human Rights System: Mutual Reinforcement or Competition?
29 Sep 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Event
The international system is increasingly characterized by the presence of partially overlapping institutions that regulate and monitor states’ performance in a given area, known as regime complexes. Whereas scholars ...
Judicial review of complex assessments in the EU: competition law and risk regulation
22 Jun 2020
15:00 - 16:30
Event
This joint ACELG-ACLE event focusses on the (causes of) convergences and divergences between competition law and risk regulation. Findings will likely shed light on other fields of EU policy that display a high ...
(Cancelled) Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Business Corporation, 1886–1981
28 May 2020
09:30 - 11:00
Lecture
Please note that this event has been cancelled /\/\/\/\ In her lecture Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv University) presents a historical study of the international law of the private business corporation. This book ...
SSM and the SRB accountability at European level: room for improvements?
12 May 2020
14:00 - 15:00
Lecture
In this joint ACES-ACELG seminar, Jonathan Zeitlin and Filipe Brito Bastos will discuss their paper entitled 'SSM and the SRB accountability at European level: room for improvements?' - which was commissioned by the ...
From diversity to coordination - A European approach to Covid19
22 Apr 2020
14:00 - 15:00
Lecture
In this joint online seminar, UvA researchers Alessio Pacces (ACLE) and Maria Weimer (ACELG) will discuss their paper 'From diversity to coordination - A European approach to Covid19.'
Cancelled: Accountable Artificial Intelligence
9 Mar 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
In her lecture Madalina Busuioc (Leiden University) will speak about the accountability of artificial intelligence. As artificial intelligence is permeating and shaping in fundamental ways our social and political ...
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