The Academy of European Public Law study session at the Sounio Office for 2009 is now over.  

 

This year’s session explored the relationship between globalization and public law, the law of European integration in times of crisis, public powers with respect to the global economy, administrative justice in the EU Member States and EC competition law in a comparative perspective, as well as the EU charter of fundamental rights and the right to equality on a global scale.

 

Committed to excellence in the teaching and learning experience, the Academy had assembled for this year’s session a group of academics that included professor J.-B. Auby (Director of the Governance and Public Law Center, Sciences Po),  Professor L. Azoulai (Pantheon-Assas Paris II University), Professor M. Conticelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Professor M. Fromont (University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne), Professor G. Gerapetritis (National and Capodistrian University of Athens), Professor E. Spiliotopoulos (Member of the Academy of Athens), Professor S. Vlachopoulos (National and Capodistrian University of Athens) and Professor I. Wendt (Erasmus University Rotterdam). 

 

Considering intercultural dialogue as an integral part of education, the Academy brings together students from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of countries. This year the thirty two students that attended the session came from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. As is the custom, the students had the opportunity to further enrich their knowledge on European public law by attending, in addition to the Academy’s session, the EGPL (the Scientific Council of the EPLO) Annual Reunion that took place on 11-13 September. 

The Academy of European Public Law’s 15th study session began on 30 August and ended on 19 September at the EPLO Sounio Office. 

Click here for the session’s program and poster. 

ACADEMY OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW

Launched in 1995, the Academy of European Public Law has been the oldest and most esteemed educational program of the EPLO, assembling today the academic potential of forty eight universities from all over the world, partners to the EPLO in the program. The program offers leading specialized study sessions in the field of European Public Law to young jurists and scholars who wish to further their knowledge and skills on the reasoning and philosophy of the different national public law systems of European countries, as well as the divergences among them, under the instruction of eminent professors in the field drawn from the partner universities. 

• Annual Study Session at Sounio