Alan S. Reid, Senior Lecturer in Law, Sheffield Hallam University. The author welcomes comments on the blog at a.s.reid@shu.ac.uk. In 2018, Scots law was thrust four square
into the legal maelstrom that is Brexit. The Court of Session in Edinburgh, and latterly the European Court of Justice, were the scene of intense legal wrangling [...]
Im gerade erschienenen Heft 2/2019 der Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien behandelt Dagmar Richter die Frage „Sicherheit vor Pestiziden in Europa? – Gefährliche
Formen der Zusammenarbeit von EU und Mitgliedstaaten am Beispiel der Neu-Genehmigung von Glyphosat“ (S. [...]
The European Law Blog will be taking a summer recess. We’ll be back end of August with new commentaries, including on key Summer developments. Please do send us on your
contributions throughout this period and we will get back to you in due course. Happy Holidays to all our readers! [...]
Conference “EU Agencies as ‘Inbetweeners’? The Relationship between EU Agencies and Member States” Maastricht University, 4-5 December 2019. Deadline for abstract submissions:
31 July 2019. [...]
By Anna Heslop On 8 May the CJEU issued an Advocate General’s Opinion in case C-674/17 Luonnonsuojeluyhdistys Tapiola, on the hunting of Wolves in Finland. With the final
decision of the court due in the coming weeks it is useful to analyse whether the nuance of that opinion is being lost in the public reaction by interested groups, [...]
By Alyson Berrendorf L’intelligence artificielle (IA) est une nouvelle donnée qu’il n’est – depuis plusieurs années – plus possible de négliger. La croissance
de la puissance de calcul, la maximisation ainsi que la disponibilité des données, la rapidité de traitements des informations et les progrès réalisés dans [...]
By Chrysa Alexandraki Background On 8 January 2019, an action was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter CJEU) by an environmental law charity,
ClientEarth (hereafter applicant) against a multilateral development bank (hereafter MDB) and European institution, the European Investment Bank (hereafter EIB). [...]
Alexandros Antoniou, University of Essex School of Law, a.antoniou@essex.ac.ukOn 12 July 2019, the EU General Court (GC) dismissed an appeal (Audimas v EUIPO - Audi (AUDIMAS))
from a Lithuanian sportswear company, whose trade mark was successfully opposed by the German automobile manufacturer Audi.BackgroundIn October 2014, the applicant, [...]
By Peter Swire On July 9, the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) held eight hours of oral argument in hearing case C-311/18, on whether US surveillance practices
violate the fundamental rights of EU citizens. This case could potentially rupture the mechanisms that allow personal data to flow across the Atlantic. [...]
At the end of March 2019, the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration, Antidiscrimination, Human Rights and Diversity organised an international and interdisciplinary conference
at the European Academy in Otzenhausen on “The European Union as Protector and Promoter of Equality” which was co-funded by the German Research Association (Deutsche [...]
