['12] : The View From a Mountain July 1 – July 15, Czech Republic

Programme Directors:

Jan Komárek Michal Bobek

Lecturer in EU law Anglo-German Fellow London School of Economics and Political Science University of Oxford, Faculty of Law European Institute and Department of Law Institute for European and Comparative Law http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/jan- http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/michal.bobek komarek.htm

General Course: Specialisation Course: European Union Public Law Outer Limits of European Union Law

The general course will run through the whole In the specialisation course, we shall try to define summer school. It will focus on various aspects of outer limits of EU law: when and according to the decision-making in the EU, the internal which criteria can one state that a case falls workings of its institutions and their mutual within the scope of EU law? We shall try to infer relationship. It will use both legal and political some general principles from various substantive theory/political science literature in order to areas of EU law and case law of the Court of explore the selected topic beyond the confines of Justice relating for instance to the internal the “black letter law”. The lectures and seminars market, competition law, citizenship, human are complemented by workshops with people rights, remedies in national courts and overall EU from practice: those who have (or had) a direct legislative competence. Are there universal rules experience from the institutions and processes applicable to all these areas? If yes, what are studied in the course. The first week will finish they? with a competition.

Distinguished Lecturers:

Eleanor Sharpston Damian Chalmers

Advocate General Professor of EU law Court of Justice of the EU London School of Economics and Political Science http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7026/ http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/da mian-chalmers.htm

Lecture: TBA Lecture: "Perfectionism and Failure in EU Law"

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Guest Lecturers:

Stefan Van den Bogaert Professor of EU law, University of Leiden Lecture: "The EMU and the Eurocrisis"

Stefaan Van den Bogaert (1973) is Professor of European law and Director of the Europa Institute at LeidenUniversity. He is also visiting Professor in European sports law at the University of Brussels (VUB) and member of the editorial committee of the Common Market Law Review.

Van den Bogaert graduated in law from the Catholic University of Leuven. He also studied at the University of Osnabrück (Erasmus Programme ‘Social Security in Europe’) and holds an LL.M. in European and Commercial Law from Cambridge University. He obtained a Ph.D in law at the European University Institute in Florencewith a thesis on the regulation of the mobility of sportsmen in the European Union in the post-Bosman era. Between 2003 and 2009, he worked at University, initially as lecturer and from 2007 as senior lecturer in European law.

During his studies, Van den Bogaert received a grant from the European Cambridge Trust and won the Jennings Prize of Wolfson College for the best LL.M. student. He also got the Best Written Pleading Award in the European Moot Court Competition in 1999. He was nominated for the University Education prize at Maastricht University in 2005. In 2006, he was awarded the Hustinx Stipend at MaastrichtUniversity for Outstanding Young Scholarship

His main research interests are EU internal market law, EU competition law, EU institutional law, EMU and sport.

Floris de Witte PhD candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science Lecture: "European Union law and the Question of Justice"

Floris de Witte is a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also teaches EU Law. His thesis discusses how ideas of justice and solidarity are reflected in EU law. Before joining the LSE, Floris read law at Maastricht University and Cambridge University. Floris de Witte won the European Law Moot Court Competition in 2006 with Maastricht University, and won the prize for best pleader in the final. He was an intern in the chambers of AG Maduro and at the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

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Alexandre Saydé Legal Secretary (Référendaire) to Judge Schiemann, European Court of Justice Lecture: "Abuse of Union Law"

Alexandre Saydé works at the European Court of Justice as a legal secretary to Sir Konrad Schiemann. He graduated from Université Libre de Bruxelles (political science, 2001) and Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (law, 2003), studied at Harvard Law School (LLM, 2007) and will soon defend his Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence. Before working at the ECJ, he qualified as a lawyer qualified as a lawyer in Brussels with Freshfields (2005-2006) in the field of tax law, corporate law and litigation.

Matej Avbelj Assistant professor of EU law, Graduate School of Government and European Studies Lecture: "Transformation of the European Union: Differentiated Integration"

Matej Avbelj teaches EU law at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies (Kranj, ), where he also acts as a Dean. He graduated from Faculty of Law, obtained an LL.M. at NYU and defended his Ph.D. at the European University Institute. Dr Avbelj has fritten in the fields of EU law, constitutional law and legal theory. As an active member of the academic community he has co- organised several successful research conferences, served as a member of editorial boards of various legal journals and participated in a number of professional associations.

Alicia Hinarejos Lecturer in EU law, University of Cambridge Lecture 1: "Evolution and Scope of EU Citizenship: Towards Federal Citizenship?" Lecture 2: "The Eurozone Crisis and the Limits of Economic Integration"

Alicia Hinarejos teaches EU law at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge, she was an Assistant Professor at McGill University (2009-2011). She had previously been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a William Golding Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. During 2008-2009, she was a Max Weber Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute. Dr Hinarejos holds a DPhil from Oxford, where she also received an MPhil and a MJur in European and Comparative Law, both with distinction. She is a member of the Spanish Bar.

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Workshop Lecturers:

Adéla Šuchmanová

Head of the Department for the EU, Office of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Workshop: National Parliaments' control of the EU

Petr Bříza

Havel and Holásek, formerly Ministry of Justice

Workshop: Negotiation in the Council

Jan Passer

Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic

Workshop: A national judge's view

Martin Smolek

Czech Government Agent before the ECJ

Workshop: Defending the state

Emil Ruffer

Head of the Department of EU Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Workshop: The Master's faithful servant

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