News UK Association for European Law The UK Association for European Law (UKAEL/FIDE) is 'Horizontal Direct Ejfect' of Treaty Freedoms - Goods and Services holding two conferences and a lecture this year. Those involved Jukka Snell, King's College London with the Association include Dr Mads Andenas, Senior Research Fellow in Company and Commercial Law at the Institute of Financial Services: Liberalisation and deregulation Advanced Legal Studies. Professor Jan Dalhuisen, University of Utrecht and King's O College London The officers of the Association are: President: Rt Hon Lord Slynn of Hadley; Vice-Presidents: Hon Judge Christopher Financial Services, Taxation and Monetary Movements Bellamy, Hon Judge David Edward, Baroness Elles, Hon Professor John A Usher, University of Edinburgh Advocate General Francis Jacobs; Hon Treasurer: David Vaughan QC; Hon Secretary: Dr Mads Andenas. Secretary: Giving Ejfect to the Right to Provide Services: the Financial Services WC2R 2LS. Directives and the Treaty Freedoms Eva Evans MBE,' King'so College,o ' London Tel/fax: 0171 722 9746; e-mail: [email protected]. George Walker, Queen Mary and Westfield College London Full details of the three events are given below. The Home Country Control Principle in the Financial Services Directives and the Case Law Professor Eva Lomnicka, King's College London THE RIGHT TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN EC LAW - TOWARD A UNIFIED FREEDOM The General Good Exceptions in the Directives, the Commission JURISPRUDENCE? Communications and the Case Law Conference: Monday 24 May 1999 Mads Andenas, King's College London and Michel Tison, Chancellors Hall, Senate House, University of London University of Gent The Rt Hon Lord Slynn of Hadley, David Vaughan QC and The Hon Judge David Edward in the chair. EMU: LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK - Toward a Unified Freedom The Right to Provide Services in EC Law Conference: Friday 18 June 1999 < Jurisprudence? Darwin Theatre, University College, London Introduction by The Rt Hon Lord Slynn of Hadley The Rt Hon Lord Slynn of Hadley in the chair A Critical Assessment of the European Court ofJustice s Case Law on Erwin Nierop, Deputy General Counsel and Head of the Services Financial Law Division, ECB Professor Wulf-Henning Roth, University of Bonn and The Creation of A New Corpus Juris of Monetary Law in the Professor Derrick Wyatt QC, University of Oxford. Preparation of Stage Three and the Following Further Legislative and Comments by Professoj Walter Baron van Gerven and Contractual Harmonisation across Europe Professor Martijn van Empel, University of Amsterdam Martin Thomas, Senior Legal Counsel, ECB International Liberalisation of Services and the EU: The Treaty Interpretation of the Treaty Objectives and the ECB Freedoms in the Mirror of Leuven Professor Jan Wouters, University Professor Paul Craig, University of Oxford and Professor Takis Tridimas, University of Southampton Where is the Service Provided? - EU Law and the WTO Judicial Review of the European Central Bank Professor Marc Dassesse, Free University of Brussels, McKenna and Cuneo LLR Comments by Professor Takis Dr Vittorio di Bucci (Referendaire to Judge Mancini in the Tridimas, University of Southampton and Professor Piet European Court) Eeckhout, King's College, London The Court ofJustice and the European Central Bank Anxieties About Over Reliance on the Principle of Home Country Control Christos Hadjiemannuil, London School of Economics in the Cross Border Provision of Services Paper to be confirmed Professor Stephen Weatherill, University of Oxford WHAT IS A LEGAL ACT OF THE ECB? Does the Service Economy Require a Market Society? Some Views on art. 30 and 59 Professor John A Usher, University of Edinburgh Damian Chalmers, London School of Economics Acts of the ECB - who does what? Rosa Maria Lastra, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE AFTER The ECB and the National Central Banks THE FIRST TEN YEARS Annual Lecture: Thursday 4 November 1999, 6 pm Mads Andenas and Michel Tison, University of Gent Great Hall, King's College, London The European Central Bank and Banking Supervision: how will home country control hold up? The Hon Judge Koenraad Lenaerts Court of First Instance of the European Communities, Professor Marc Dassesse, Free University of Brussels, Luxembourg McKenna and Cuneo LLP The ECB, Lender oj Last Resort and State Aid Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Visiting Professor at the universities of Burundi, Strasbourg and Professor Jan Wouters, University of Leuven Harvard; Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges; Member of ECB and Payments the Brussels Bar; Member of the International Relations Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Judge at the Court of First Further papers will be given by Instance since 1989. Rene Sniits, the Dutch Central Bank, and officials of the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the The chair will taken by The Rt Hon Lord Slynn of European Commission and Council Hadley. ® Statute Law Society AGM The Statute Law Society will hold its AGM on Wednesday Anyone wishing to attend the lecture should contact 5 May 1999 in the Crypt, Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn. Juliet Fussell, Secretary, Statute Law Society, This will be followed at 6.00 pm by a lecture given by The Rt 1 7 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR. Hon The Lord Millet entitled Legislative Drafting: a Judges Tel: 0171 637 1731;fax: 0171 637 5216; Reaction. e-mail: jfussell@sas. ac. uk. @ W G Hart Legal Workshop 1999 Legal regulation of the employment relation Tuesday 6 July - Thursday 8 July 1999 This perspective differs from most contemporary approaches Academic Directors to labour law studies in a number of respects. It resists the idea that the foundation of employment law lies in the private law of Professor Hugh Collins, Professor of English Law, London contract and tort, and emphasises instead the public, regulatory School of Economics character of labour laws. It also resists an analysis of the Professor Paul L Davies, Cassell Professor of Commercial problems addressed by labour law in terms of the rights of the Law, London School of Economics parties and instead develops a policy analysis and considers Professor Roger Rideout, Faculty of Law; University College problems of implementation and compliance. Within this bargaining between trade London framework,7 for instance, collective o o unions and employers is not analysed as a basic right or freedom, If you would like to attend the workshop, please register your but rather is perceived as a tool of regulation, in this case self- interest with: regulation, which may be especially effective in implementing Belinda Crothers, Academic Assistant, Institute of Advanced Legal certain types of policy goals. Studies, 1 7 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR; tel: 0171 637 1731; fax: 0171 580 9613; e-mail: [email protected]. The topic therefore covers the whole of the traditional list for further This will ensure that youJ are on the mailingo discipline of labour law (both collective and individual information. employment law aspects) and perhaps extends it by suggesting explorations of overlaps with other fields of legal study, such as CALL FOR PAPERS social security, taxation, and company law, but the theme of the The aim of the Workshop is to examine issues in labour law workshop tries to focus attention on a particular way of from the perspective of \iewing its task as the regulation of a exploring contemporary issues regarding the law and the particular kind of contractual relation (contract of employment) employment relation. The topic invites comparative labour law and the institutional framework (e.g. trade unions, collective studies, interdisciplinary studies, theoretical explanations and bargaining, managerial hierarchies, government departments empirical studies. We suggest the following themes might prove and agencies) within which it operates. helpful, though we welcome other suggestions. Themes (6) The effects of particular regulatory policies on the market. (1) Justifications for regulation (and deregulation) of the employment relation and the labour employment relation. (7) Redesigning the institutions of the employment relation including the corporate form with a view to improving (2) The variety and effectiveness of regulatory techniques. regulatory compliance. (3) The role of trade unions and social dialogue in devising (8) European regulation of the employment relation: the and implementing regulatory standards. tension between social and competition policies. (4) The merits of analysing labour law as a form of regulation of business. Ifyou are interested in presenting a paper to the workshop, please contact: (5) The advantages and disadvantages of transnational and Professor Hugh Collins, Department of Law, London School of Economics, international regulation of labour standards. Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE; e-mail: [email protected]. IALS Lectures Evening Seminars Wednesday 5 May 1999, 6pm Wednesday 19 May, 5.45pm SHEENA MCMURTRIE ROBERT DRURY Lecturer in Law, University of Buckingham; Visiting Fellow, Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Law, University of School of Advanced Study. Exeter The ombudsman device in the public sector in the United Kingdom and The prospect for a European private company the United States Wednesday 26 May, 5.45pm TUESDAY 25 MAY, 6pm DR ALAN DIGNAM DR NEIL ANDREWS Lecturer in law, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of School of Law, University of Canberra, Australia London Nothing stays