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Gabriella Saputelli of ISSiRFA, Rome was our very first JMCE Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School, spending a week here in mid-October 2019. This is her blog, written during her visit to Scotland. The European sub-national context is complex and varied, with numerous Regions and local governments differently involved in the application of …
This blog post is the full text of Sir Jonathan Faull’s lecture in the University of Edinburgh’s prestigious Montague Burton Lecture Series. The lecture was delivered on 16th September 2019, entitled ‘Brexit and the future of the Unions’ I am here today thanks to John Peterson[1], a distinguished professor in this University, a fine scholar …
Emily Hancox – Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute Usually, within a legal order there are certain tools for resolving conflicts between legal norms. Most well-known are the principle of lex superior (granting priority to the higher-ranking norm), the principle of lex specialis (granting priority to the more specific norm) and the principle of lex …
Tamara Fischer, LLM Candidate in General Law, The University of Edinburgh Winning entry for the EU Immigration Law Prize 2018/19 In times of crisis one can count on the hyperactivity of the EU legislator. A prominent example is given by the recently approved Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 establishing the EES at the EU’s external borders which …
Tiffany Guggenbühl, LLM Candidate in Human Rights Law, The University of Edinburgh Winning entry for the EU Immigration Law Prize 2018/19 Introduction External border control and internal security in the European Union (EU) have become two sides of the same coin. Controlling immigration is increasingly used for security purposes while security and crime governance methods …
Mihail Vatsov, University of Edinburgh, School of Law. The EU has found itself in the middle of the next major international law saga after Kadi. This is the Western Sahara saga. It relates to the applicability and legality of agreements between the EU and Morocco with respect to Western Sahara. As with any other occupied …
Tamara Hervey, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, University of Sheffield The EU affects virtually every aspect of the UK’s health laws and policies. NHS staffing, integrated health care on the island of Ireland, cross-border healthcare for travellers, retired UK nationals in Spain, pharmaceutical and devices supply chains, human tissue and organ safety, research data …
Chad Damro, Elke Heins and Tobias Lock The European Union (EU) faces a time of unprecedented challenges, including but not limited to, the rise of populism, Brexit, relations with neighbours and crises in euro governance, refugees and rule of law. To engage with and strengthen analyses of European futures at this crucial crossroads in its …
