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The event is co-organised by the Institute for the Study of European Laws (ISEL) and the Centre for Law and Social Change .
Speaker: Dr Hanna Eklund, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Prof Tamara Hervey, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at City, University of London
Chair: Dr Adrienne Yong, Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London
Abstract
Dr Eklund’s talk will focus on her research on Colonialism and EU Law, most recently published as ‘Peoples, Inhabitants and Workers: Colonialism in the Treaty of Rome’ in the latest issue of the European Journal of International Law.
She will also discuss a forthcoming edited volume, to be published by OUP in 2024/25. The edited book will offer an in-depth examination of the ways in which the economic, legal, ideological and political structures of colonialism have shaped the EU legal order.
Placing the construction and development of EU law in the context of Europe’s colonial history and its iterations through the postcolonial period to today, the book will provide readers with new knowledge of the operation and character of EU law.
Against this backdrop, the volume brings EU lawyers, political scientists, historians, legal historians, sociologists, and an economist together to explain how colonialism has shaped the practice of EU law.
About the speaker
Dr Hanna Eklund is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen.
She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in European Law from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2016).
She has been a full term visiting researcher at Columbia Law School, New York. In 2020 she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission for the project An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe: A Critical Legal History, which deals with colonialism and EU integration.
In 2021 she received an Inge Lehmann Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the project Colonialism in EU Law: Writing Legal Histories for the Future.
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