Author: Harvard Law School

“The Future of European Integration after the Fiscal Compact”

April 12, 2012

5 pm

WCC 1015

Harvard Law School

We are delighted to announce a discussion between Professors Miguel Maduro and Damian Chalmers on the future of the EU in light of the new fiscal compact. Things are changing quite dramatically in the EU due to the financial crisis and the EU Institutions and the Member States are responding in a number of different ways. One of the adaptations has been the agreement to forge a fiscal compact which will bind EU Member States to certain fiscal rules in order to ensure fiscal stability through the Union. However, the UK and the Czech Republic are electing to remain outside this agreement and many are now speculating that this will lead to a two-tiered Europe with these states being left behind in the EU project – is this a real potential or just hyperbole? Come and find out!

This event will be moderated by Associate Professor Vlad Perju who will then open up the discussion to the audience who will have the opportunity to put questions to the Professors.

Prof. Damian Chalmers – a leading EU law scholar from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). He is co-author of one of the leading treatises on European Law and is the editor of the European Law Review. Prof. Chalmers is also an expert in European politics.

Prof. Miguel Maduro – a Professor of European Law and the Director of the Global Governance Program at the European University Institute. He is a former Advocate General for the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Professor Maduro specializes in European Union law, international economic law, constitutional law, and comparative institutional analysis.

Associate Prof. Vlad Perju – a tenured associate Professor of law at Boston College Law School. His primary research and teaching interests include the law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory and legal theory.

The Harvard European Law Association invites you to the first ever European Networking Reception co-organized by the European Clubs at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard College, MIT and the Fletcher School at Tufts.

Harvard European Law Association kindly invites for the lecture with Professor Alexander Somek (Charles E. Floete Chair in Law at University of Iowa College of Law) on the topic “Equality and Social Justice in the EU”.

March 9, Friday

12:00-1:00

Hauser Hall, Room 105

Harvard Law School

Event is co-sponsored by:

Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School

International Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School

On October 20, 2011, Harvard European Law Association hosted a meeting with Ms. Barbora Bukovská – HLS LL.M. graduate of 2005, who explained her battle for Roma women’s rights and practice of forced sterilization in Slovakia. To learn more about the phenomenon, we invite you to watch a document film available on youtube: Forced Sterilisation – Slovakia

Barbora Bukovská, LLM ’05, is currently Senior Director of Law and Policy at the London-based human rights organization Article 19. A founder of the Czech Republic’s first legal clinic, in 2001 she founded the Centre for Civil and Human Rights in Kosice, Slovakia, where she led efforts to eliminate the practice of forced sterilization of Romani women in Slovakia, as well as other human rights abuses. Currently, she is representing a group of Roma women who were forcibly sterilized by Slovakian authorities in their case before the European Court of Human Rights.

On September 26, 2011, Harvard European Law Association hosted breakfast with Mr. Marek Belka and about 20 graduate and undergraduate students from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard College, Graduate School of Arts and Science, MIT and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Mr. Belka shared his views about current economical crisis as well as explained the economic transition that occurred in Poland after collapse of the communist regime. Moreover, he commented on his experience in International Monetary Found and in Iraq, where he was responsible for monetary reforms and economic recovery.

Mr. Marek Belka is currently President of the National Bank of Poland. He held many important national posts. He was a Prime Minister of Poland in 2004-05 and Minister of Finance in 1997 and again in 2001-2002. On international level, Mr. Belka was appointed a Director of IMP’s European Department and before Chairman of the Council for International Coordination for Iraq.