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It is a truism to state that global multilateral economic governance is in a state of turmoil. The WTO has not been able to deliver on the Doha Round and faces an existential crisis, with its Appellate Body ceasing to function in December. But also, other international economic institutions, from the IMF and World Bank to the OECD, face testing times. This even applies to the informal “clubs” of economic governance, such as the G7 and G20, where the sense of common purpose has been tainted in the last years. In such a turbulent context, the European Union has set itself the daunting task of keeping the flame of multilateralism alive. This lecture critically looks at the EU’s institutional features and policies in order to assess whether it can effectively preserve the multilateral rules-based order. Not being a state, having only attributed powers and a rather complicated system of international representation, and adding to what other players often see as “too many Europeans in the room”, it may not be obvious for the EU to succeed in its endeavours.

Speaker: Jan Wouters. Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.

Sponsors: RCC; Harvard European Law Association; Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair in European Union Law and Government.

Date: Friday, November 8, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3018

Join HELA lunch talk on the Fragility of EU Law-making with Judith Merkies and Alvaro Renedo Zalba.

Judith Merkies is a former Member of the European Parliament (for the Netherlands). Experienced international lawyer specialized in European law. Has worked in the private sector and in the European Commission before being elected to Parliament. Special focus: (the lack of) public policy response to the impact on society by disruptive innovations.
Alvaro Renedo Zalba Is a Spanish career diplomat who specialized in EU affairs for the past 13 years. Alvaro Renedo Zalba served as Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain. Alvaro Renedo Zalba is also an academic his current research project focuses on ways to optimize efficiency in existing channels of diplomatic interlocution between the EU and the US administration.

When: Tuesday, October 29th at 12:00 pm

Where: 2009 WCC

* Non-pizza lunch will be served

Within the context of general uncertainty around the Brexit deadline scheduled for October 31, 2019, that could be delayed further as a result of the British Parliament Special Session on October 19, 2019, this panel will bring in certainty in one of the most important areas for business, the economy as well as for public and private legal practitioners, namely, the impact that Brexit will have in fiscal policy and taxation law.

Speakers will focus on tax treaties and showcase how supranational law (at the international, European and US levels) produces consequences that go beyond the intended territorial scope of its application. Likewise, they will review how states, even if they are able to leave regional blocks of integration, are progressively bound by rules and standards created by those blocks, substantially limiting their status as autonomous subjects of international law.

Speaker: Stephen Shay, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School; Kathleen Saunders Gregor, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP.

Chair: Jose M. Martinez Sierra, RCC Director, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Faculty Sponsor Harvard European Law Association

When: Friday, November 1st at 12:00 pm

Where: 3018 WCC

Research Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and member of its board, Luca Enriques is Professor of Corporate Law at Oxford University and one of the founding academic editors of the Oxford Business Law Blog. He completed his LL.M. at Harvard Law School and worked at the Bank of Italy. He was a consultant to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and an adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance on matters relating to corporate, banking and securities law with a special focus on European Union policy initiatives. He was also a Commissioner at Consob, the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following event:

HELA Welcome Event for Judge Robert Spano of the European Court of Human Rights
When: Thursday, March 26, 2015 (8 PM – 10 PM)
Where: WCC Pub

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following event that we are co-sponsoring with the Harvard International Law Journal:

The 2015 Harvard International Law Journal Symposium – “BORDERS AND CROSS-BORDER ENFORCEMENT”
Friday, February 27 from 12:05-6:00 pm
WCC B010

This year’s symposium will provide students, practitioners, and academics with a forum to discuss the evolution and challenges of defining borders and cross-border projections of law today. The Symposium will feature:

– A keynote address by Justice Francis Jardeleza, who served as the Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2012-2014, during the initiation of the government’s UNCLOS arbitration claim against China over maritime boundaries
– Three panels with an amazing line-up of scholars, practitioners, and government advisors from around the world
– Free Crema Cafe lunch, snacks, and drinks throughout the day

Co-Sponsored by Harvard Asia Law Society, Harvard Association for Law and Business, Harvard European Law Association, Harvard Law and International Development Society, Harvard Law School Human Rights Journal, and Harvard National Security and Law Association.

FULL SCHEDULE & PROGRAMS
LOCATION: Wasserstein B010

======= 12:05 – 12:45 PM =======
Opening remarks: Vice Dean William Alford
Keynote Address: The Honorable Francis H. Jardeleza, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Former Solicitor General of the Philippines
(Catered Lunch from Crema Cafe)

======= 1:00 – 2:30 PM =======
Panel 1: Drawing New Borders? Self-Determination and Independence Movements
(Refreshments from Crema Cafe)

–Gardner Bovingdon – Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
–Hurst Hannum – Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University
–Hon. David J. Scheffer – Director, Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of law; former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
–Jure Vidmar – Professor of Public International Law, Maastricht University
–Moderator: Alexis Dudden – Professor of History, University of Connecticut

======= 2:45 – 4:15 PM =======
Panel 2: Conflicting Claims: Maritime Disputes and the South China Sea
(Refreshments from Crema Cafe)

–Kuen-chen Fu – Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Law; arbitrator for CMAC, CIETAC
–James Kraska – Professor in the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, US Naval War College
–Harry Roque – Director, University of the Philippines Law Center Institute of International Legal Studies; Associate Professor at the University of Philippines College of Law
–Stefan Talmon – Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bonn
–Moderator: Gabriella Blum – Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law School

======= 4:30 – 6:00 PM =======
Panel 3: Economic Sanctions: Implementation, Effectiveness, and Ethics
Sponsored by Sullivan & Cromwell
(Refreshments from Crema Cafe)

–Joy Gordon – Senior Global Justice Fellow, Yale MacMillan Center; Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Professor of Social Ethics, Loyola University Chicago
–Dara Panahy – Partner, Milbank
–Brad Smith – Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at US Dept. of the Treasury
–Sean Thornton – Legal Counsel, BNP Paribas; former Chief Counsel, OFAC
–Alex Willscher – Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell; former Assistant United States Attorney, SDNY
–Moderator: Maggie Gardner – Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following event that we are co-sponsoring:

The Role of Lawyers in Enabling and Justifying Torture
When: Thursday, February 12, 2015 (7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.)
Where: WCC 1010

Please join Professor Alex Whiting and Wells Dixon as they discuss the role of lawyers in authorizing the post-9/11 US torture program. The panelists will speak about their experiences litigating torture cases, explore ways in which individuals implicated in torture can be held accountable, and discuss possible institutional reforms in legal pedagogy and curriculum at HLS aimed at producing more morally-conscious and ethical leaders.

Persian dinner will be provided.

Organized by the Harvard Muslim Law Students Association, with co-sponsorship from:

Advocates for Education
Black Law Students Association
Harvard African Law Association
Harvard European Law Association
HLS ACLU
HLS Armed Forces Association
HLS Christian Fellowship
HLS Democrats
HLS NLG
Justice for Palestine
Lambda
La Alianza
Law and International Development Society
Middle Eastern Law Students Association
South Asian Law Students Association
Students for Inclusion
The National Security Law Association

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following event that we are co-sponsoring:

WLA Holiday Party

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following talk:

Challenging Secrecy: Perspectives from the EU and US Practice
When: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 (12 PM – 1 PM)
Where: WCC 5044

Vigjilenca Abazi, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and lecturer on EU Law at University of Amsterdam, will be addressing the challenges secrecy gives to democratic processes of oversight both in the EU and US practice, linking her broader theoretical work on secrecy with the developments of NSA, the discussion on leaks, and how this has affected the EU-US relations on trade.

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following talk:

Vice-President Koen Lenaerts

“EU Values and Constitutional Pluralism”

on Monday, April 21 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in WCC 3016

Koen Lenaerts
Born 1954; lic. iuris, Ph.D. in Law (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven); Master of Laws, Master in Public Administration (Harvard University); Lecturer (1979-83), subsequently Professor of European Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (since 1983); Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice (1984-85); Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (1984-89); member of the Brussels Bar (1986-89); Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School (1989); Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities from 25 September 1989 to 6 October 2003; Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2003; Vice-President of the Court of Justice since 9 October 2012.

We thank the Center for European Studies for their support of this event.

An inquiry into impact of rulings of the CJEU

The talk will problematize, from perspective of EU law, the difference between the immediate impact of “living” judgments of the Court of Justice, that is, judgments which make part of the living judicial dialogue between EU and national judges, and impact of “well settled case law”. While the former arguably affects judicial decision making in the Member States the latter has a potential of long term influence on national legal culture. In the second part I will address criticism addressed to the Court as to coherence of its case law, alleged inability to control its own docket, lack of dissenting opinions, cryptic language of its judgments and legitimacy of its rulings.  I will argue, that critique of adjudication sometimes fails to identify functional comparators on which the very critique is based and claim that the Court of Justice delivers similar goods as other model courts, just in a different guise. I will also suggest that immediate impact of judicial decisions dramatically differs from their transcendental impact, partly due to the change of context and utterer and partly due to the change of audience targeted by a decision. In the third part I will explain the difference between original and transcendental subjectivity and argue that law/policy conundrum, i.e. the tension between fidelity to law and undeniable contribution to policy of European integration can be explained by two shifts in analysis of its case law. First, the temporal shift from creative to interpretative moment and, second, the shift of the interpretative subject from the Court itself to external users of its case law.

Prof. Siniša Rodin earned his Ph.D. degree from the  University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, Croatia  in 1995, and his LL.M. degree from the  University of Michigan Law School  in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1992. He specialized European Law at the  European University Institute  in Florence, Italy, and German Constitutional Law at the  Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches öeffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht  in Heidelberg, Germany. He is recepient of the University of Michigan Law School Merit Award, and the University of Zagreb Rector’s Award. In 2001/2002 he was Fulbright fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Prof. Rodin is member of the  International Association of Constitutional Law  and of the European Communities Studies Association. He is author of 2 books and more then 50 research papers. Together with prof. Tamara Ćapeta he co-authored the first textbook on EU law in Croatian language. Prof. Rodin’s  scientific interest includes issues of constitutional interpretation, fundamental rights and constitutional aspects of European integration. His research also focuses free movement of services.  He is member of editorial board of Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy and Zeitschrift für Öffentliches Recht. He is member of UACES and FIDE.

Prof. Rodin holds ad personam Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia. His teaching includes a general course on EU law and an advanced course on Human Rights in the EU. He is one of the supervisors of students participating at the European Law Moot Court Competition and Central and East European Moot Court. In 2012 prof. Rodin also teaches at CEU San Pablo Madrid and as a Marc and Beth Goldberg Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University Law School.

Prof. Rodin contributes to the Enzyklopädie des Europarechts (Nomos 2013) and currently works on the project “Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe”, to be published by Springer Verlag in 2013.

Since July 1, 2013 Siniša Rodin serves as a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Please find the text of Judge Rodin’s presentation here: Dumb and no More Here.

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following talk:

Professor R. Daniel Kelemen

“Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union”

on Tuesday, February 25 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in Lewis International Law Center 214B Room.

R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, will discuss the topic of Eurolegalism. Professor Kelemen is currently a visiting fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University. Kelemen previously served as Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics and Director of the Center for European Studies at Rutgers University.

The Harvard European Law Association and the Women’s Law Association would like to invite you to the following talk:

Professor Anu Bradford

“The Brussels Effect: How the EU is unilaterally shaping the world through global commerce”

on March 7, 2014 at 12 pm – WCC 3018

(lunch will be provided)

Professor Anu Bradford (originally from Finland) has been a professor at Columbia Law School since 2012. Before moving to Columbia, she was an assistant professor at University of Chicago Law School, where she specialized in international trade law. She is an HLS LLM and SJD graduate, as practiced law at Clear Gottlieb, advised on economic policy for the European and Finnish Parliament, and has been named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Professor Schütze is Professor of European Law at Durham University and a Fulbright Schuman Research Scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies (CES). Professor Schütze is presently writing a book on “Foreign Affairs and the European Constitution”. He has kindly agreed to give a lunch talk to HELA, on Monday November 25, from 12 am to 1 pm, about “The ‘Treaty Power’ and Parliamentary Democracy” in the EU. Food will be served. The room is TBA.

Dr. Weidmann will give a talk on Europe’s Monetary Union from4:15 pm to 6 pm at the CES European Economic Policy Forum (Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St). The event will be chaired by Benjamin Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University.

Event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come basis. Website: http://ces.fas.harvard.edu. Contact: Sarah Delude (sadelude@fas.harvard.edu).

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to the following conference:

“Managing Data Protection between the US and Europe: Balancing Freedom and Security”, Thursday November 21, from 12 am to 2 pm, Center for European Studies (Lower Level Conference Room).
Information: atownes@wcfia.harvard.edu.

HELA invites you to the presentation that Professor de Búrca will give on October 25, 2013 to a select group of students on the topic: “What is the European Union for?” (Cabor Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies).

Professor Gráinne de Búrca is one of the most prominent legal scholars in EU law. Since 1995, she is the author with Paul Craig of the classic EU Law textbook. She has been a member of the faculty at Harvard Law School, the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the Centre for European and Comparative Law (Oxford, UK), and is now teaching at NYU.

HELA is organizing its first social event on Sunday, October 20. Daniel Dykes, a professional tour guide, has agreed to show us Boston in a new light! Join us at 10 AM at John Harvard Statue. We will then take the T into Boston and tour the old downtown and waterfront (including the Old State House where the American Revolution began), Beacon Hill (where John Kerry and the old elites of Boston live), Boston Common and some of New England’s dramatic Civil War history, and the Black Bay. The tour should last for about three hours. Please feel free to bring your friends!

“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.