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The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) is delighted to announce that Centre Director Professor Catherine Barnard has been elected as the JC Smith Fellow for 2019-2020 by the University of Nottingham. The JC Smith Fellowship recognises and celebrates the contribution of distinguished scholars from around the world and this is an extremely impr…

Dr Oke Odudu will be presenting a paper at a round table event held by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on 3 December. The event on "Hub-and-spoke arrangements in competition" will be held in Paris. Hub-and-spoke arrangements are horizontal restrictions on the supplier or retailer level (the “spokes”), which are imp…

Dr Alicia Hinarejos has been appointed Joint Editor of the European Law Review. Published by Sweet & Maxwell, the ELR is one of the leading journals in the field of EU law. The European Law Review is the principal English-language journal covering the law relating to European integration and the Council of Europe. While preserving the highest acade…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. This authoritative text offers a unique balance of comprehensive, detailed coverage in a concise and readable style, providing a critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of th…

CELS warmly welcomes the announcement on 19 July that Ms Eleanor Sharpston QC had been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Academy. Eleanor has combined a career in practice at the Bar (specialising in European Union and ECHR Law) with an academic career first at UCL and then in Cambridge where she was a University Lecturer from 1992 t…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In her lecture, Commissioner Vestager reflected on the explosion of personal data being produced by each citizen across social media, telecommunications, and the internet of things. She considered the regulation of t…

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) expresses its condolences at the announcement of the death of Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias who served as a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He delivered the inaugural CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture on 10 February 1997 and the text of the lecture – 'Reflections on the General Principle…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Mr Grieve reflected on the steps being taken to prepare from the UK withdrawal from the EU following the referendum.  He especially focused on the protection of human rights, considering the interacti…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Brexit and Financial Services: Law and Policy by Kern Alexander, Catherine Barnard, Eilís Ferran, Andrew Lang and Niamh Moloney. This timely book examines the legal and regulatory implications of Brexit for financial services. The UK's withdrawal from the EU is likely to have signi…

Professor Kenneth Armstrong (Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS)) has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled: 'The Brexit Effect: Convergence, Divergence and Variation in UK Regulatory Policy'.  The award is for 36 months, commencing from 1 September 2018. …

The Faculty of Law's Centre for European Legal Studies and Centre for Public Law have published a second Brexit briefing paper on 'Brexit and EU Nationals: Options for Implementation in UK Law'. The first paper in the series - 'Implementing Transition – How Would it Work' - has been downloaded more than 600 times since it was released in October. A…

The Faculty of Law's Centre for European Legal Studies and Centre for Public Law have today published a Brexit briefing paper on 'Implementing Transition'. Following the Prime Minister's speech in Florence on 22 September 2017, there is growing, albeit not universal, political consensus around the notion of a transitional - or 'implementation' - pe…

Oxford University Press has published the second edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers. European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction to EU law. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert in the …

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In a new series of short video clips, leading academic commentators from the University of Cambridge highlight the issues facing the UK as it seeks to negotiate a Brexit agreement in the wake of the 'leave' result of…

Cambridge University Press has published Brexit Time by Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies Professor Kenneth Armstrong. The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationally. As the dust begins to settle, att…