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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 April 11, 2014 at 12 pm – WCC 3016

(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.

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

Professor Tamara Perišin

“EU regulation, world trade and values: Should the EU care what the world thinks?”

on Wednesday, March 26 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Prof. dr. Tamara Perišin, MJur (Oxon) graduated cum laude at the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law; as a Chevening scholar earned the degree Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall; and completed her PhD at the University of Zagreb having defended her thesis before an international committee. As a part of her doctoral and post-doctoral research, Tamara Perišin studied as a visiting researcher at the Asser College Europe, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague; as a Fulbright scholar at the Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor; as a “visitor-in-the-cabinet” of Advocate General Sharpston at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg; a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellow at the Central European University, Budapest; and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. She passed the Croatian bar exam. T. Perišin works at the Department of European Public Law where is she is the leader of the Jean Monnet Module “EU and WTO in a comparative perspective”; in the period 2009-11 she served as Vice Dean for International Cooperation. She was a Member of the Working Group for Free Movement of Goods in the EU Accession Negotiating Team of the Croatian Government. T. Perišin is on the Editorial Board of the “Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy”, “Zagreb Law Review” and “SEEL Journal”. She is an author of many articles and of the book “Free Movement of Goods and Limits of Regulatory Autonomy in the EU and WTO”, T.M.C. Asser Press.

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

Professor Sjef J.H.M. van Erp

“The EU as the Latest Mixed Jurisdiction: Property Law as an Example”

on Thursday, March 13 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in WCC 3018

Sjef van Erp holds a law degree from Tilburg University (1977) and studied at the Faculté Internationale pour l’Enseignement du Droit Comparé and the Hague Academy of International Law. After working as a research assistant and adviser at the Netherlands Royal Society of Notaries, he started working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Tilburg University. As a visiting scholar, he did comparative legal research at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (Germany), Wolfson College Cambridge (UK) and Berkeley (US). In 1990, he completed his doctorate thesis and continued his work at Tilburg University as an associate professor. He continued his research abroad at Cambridge (UK), Berkeley (US), Quebec (Canada), Harvard (US), Osnabrück and Hamburg (Germany). He was visiting professor at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) and Cornell University (US), and Socrates visiting professor at Trento University (Italy). In 1997, Sjef van Erp was appointed Professor of Civil Law and European Private Law at Maastricht University. Currently (2003), he is chairman of the Private Law Department. He is Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Deputy Judge at the District Court of Amsterdam, President of the Netherlands Comparative Law Association, board member of the International Association of Legal Science and co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://www.ejcl.org), member of the international editorial board of the Russian Journal of Comparative Law, co-founder and member of the board of the Dutch Inter-University Foundation for the Study of European Private Law and member of the Collegio dei docenti del Dottorato in Studi giuridici comparati ed europei of Trento University (Italy). Other professional activities include: membership of a Dutch group of experts to assist the Russian Federation, Armenia, Ukraine, Eritrea, Belarus, the Baltic States and Hungary during the redrafting process of civil and commercial law (including the training of judges), membership of a Dutch delegation to Mongolia in order to establish a training programme for the Mongolian judiciary, co-founder and Dutch chairman of the Netherlands-German Law Association and board member of the Inter-University Foundation ‘Centre for International Legal Cooperation’. His research focuses on comparative and European private law and the comparison of the American federal experience with European integration.

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

Professor Federico Fabbrini

“Fundamental Rights in Europe”

on Friday, February 28 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in WCC 3018

Federico Fabbrini will discuss the topic of fundamental rights in Europe. Professor Fabbrini is tenure-track Assistant Professor of European & Comparative Constitutional Law at Tilburg University. He holds a B.A. in European & Transational Legal Studies from the University of Trento, a J.D. in Law from the University of Bologna and more recently a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute. He recently published a book entitled “Fundamental Rights in Europe.”