The IEE-ULB and CDE are pleased to host Professor Dr Armin von Bogdandy to discuss the “Future of EU Law in Light of Article 2 TEU”.

About the lecture

On the fourteenth and fifteenth of December 2023, the European Council decided to reform the Union. What can guide that reform?

Engaging with this question, Professor Dr Armin von Bogdandy will present his recent academic paper advocating for republicanism, building upon the principles laid out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Republicanism, already deeply embedded within Union law, will be discussed as a coherent and principled approach. The Commission’s 2017 White Paper on the Future of Europe underscores it, positing the republican Ventotene Manifesto as the pivotal source for the EU’s path and future, and its Legal Service’s 2022 publication ‘70 Years of EU Law’ reaches its zenith by delineating avenues for advancing the Union’s civic transformation. Von Bogdandy explores this European renaissance of republicanism, while critiquing certain aspects of the Commission’s understanding.

Professor Bogdandy’s paper will be discussed by Professor Ramona Coman (Professor of Political Science at ULB) and Professor Paul Dermine (Professor of European Union Law at ULB).

About the speaker

Armin von Bogdandy is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. He graduated in law and philosophy before obtaining a Ph.D. in Freiburg (1988) and qualifying as a professor at the FU Berlin (1996). He has been President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; he has held visiting positions at the New York University School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, among others.

Armin von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2014), the Premio Internacional “Hector Fix Zamudio” (2015), the “Mazo” (gavel) of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights (2015), and the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2008). He received a Dr. h.c. from the University of Bucharest (2022), the Universidad de San Pablo-Tucumán, Argentina (2022), the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (2020), the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Ungarn (2020) and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina (2017).

Practical information

When: June 2nd at 17:00 – 18:30 (followed by a cocktail reception)

Where: IEE-ULB | Salle Spaak | 39 avenue Franklin Roosevelt | Campus Solbosch – ULB

Attendance is free, but registration mandatory: LINK