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UKAEL Webinar
Horizontal Direct Effect of Directives: Reconfirmation of Orthodoxy
Thursday 23 May 5.00-6.30pm (UK time)
There has been a considerable volume of case law, coupled with a significant body of academic commentary, dealing with the direct effect of directives, and more especially the fact that they do not have horizontal direct effect. The CJEU has also articulated several ways in which directives can nonetheless have some measure of enforceability falling short of horizontal direct effect. This juridical approach was recently reconfirmed in Case C-261/20 Thelen Technopark Berlin EU:C:2022:33. The webinar analyses the ruling against the backdrop of the earlier case law and academic commentary.
Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law, St John’s College, Oxford. His research interests are constitutional law, administrative law, EU law and comparative administrative law. He has given evidence to parliamentary committees on numerous occasions. From 2011-2019, he was the UK alternate member on the Venice Commission. Paul is the President of the UKAEL.
Theodore Konstadinides is Professor of Law at the Essex Law School, University of Essex. He is the Law School’s academic lead for public law and co-director of the Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative (Essex CAJI). His work focuses on EU constitutional law, UK public law and comparative constitutional law and theory.
Bruno de Witte is Emeritus Professor of European Union law at Maastricht University and visiting fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. The main fields of his research are constitutional reform and treaty revision in the EU, protection of fundamental rights in Europe, the rights of minorities, language law and cultural diversity in Europe, internal market law and non-market values and decision-making and legal instruments of EU law.
UKAEL Student Evening at Hogan Lovells: 13 November 2024
UKAEL Annual Lecture and Dinner at King’s College London: 3 December 2024
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