The EU Law Live Conversation Series

EU Law Live’s Podcast Series, edited by the EU Law Live team

In search of competitiveness or a bonfire of EU law? A conversation with Anu Bradford and Alberto Alemanno

The EU has launched a plan to promote competitiveness and boost the internal market through an ambitious deregulatory strategy. What does this make of the "Brussels Effect" and the EU's regulatory objectives? To discuss this, Daniel Sarmiento talks with Anu Bradford (Professor in Columbia University) and Alberto Alemanno (Professor in HEC and founder of The Good Lobby)

12-15
29:13

The Alace Case and safe countries of origin. A conversation with M Cartabia, M Savino and F Munari

In this new Podcast of The Case, Marta Cartabia, Mario Savino and Francesco Munari talk about the Alace case, on the growingly contentious notion of safe countries of origin in the context of current migration reform.

11-10
44:17

EU law blogs, platforms and online journals: a conversation with R. Wessel, M. Steinbeis and D. Sarmiento

A conversation with the editors of European Papers (Ramses Wessel), Verfassungsblog (Maximilian Steinbeis) and EU Law Live (Daniel Sarmiento), led by Guillermo Iñiguez, on the role of new sources of legal information, publication processes, the challenge of open access and the need to keep an information ecosystem independent in the current times.

10-16
47:06

András Jakab and Lando Kirchmair talk about their latest book on 'Saving the EU' from Illiberal Member States

Daniel Sarmiento talks with András Jakab and Lando Kirchmair about their latest co-authored book, "Saving the EU from its Illiberal Member States", in which they analise the cultural roots and the possible ways forward in tackling the illiberal threat that current political trends pose for the EU.

09-15
39:55

FIDE Conversations: Guillermo Iñiguez discusses Energy Solidarity and Energy Security with Alicja Sikora-Kalėda

In this third and final FIDE Conversations Podcast, Guillermo Iñiguez talks with Alicja Sikora-Kalėda, Rapporteure Générale of the Topic on energy solidarity and energy security – from green transition to the EU’s crisis management

05-20
20:03

FIDE Conversations: Daniel Sarmiento, Alice Jaume and Emanuele Rebasti on EU Emergency Law

In this new FIDE Conversation Podcast, Julia Fernández Arribas talks with the general and institutional rapporteurs of the FIDE topic on EU Emergency Law, Daniel Sarmiento, Alice Jaume and Emanuele Rebasti.

05-13
35:47

Eleanor Spaventa and Luke Dimitrios Spieker discuss the "golden passports" case

In this Podcast, Eleanor Spaventa, from Bocconi University, and Luke Dimitrios Spieker, from Humboldt University Berlin, discuss the groundbreaking judgment of the Court of Justice in the "golden passports" case: Commission v. Malta, conducted by Guillermo Iñiguez, In-Depth editor of EU Law Live.

05-08
36:52

FIDE Conversations: Martin Husovec and Lena Hornkohl discuss the DMA and the DSA

In this special issue of the FIDE Conversations, Lena Hornkohl talks with Martin Husovec, General Rapporteur of the FIDE Congress on the Digital Economy, in anticipation of the discussions that will take place in FIDE on this topic.

05-05
36:40

A conversation with Elise Muir on the EU's fundamental rights framework and policy

Daniel Sarmiento talks with Elise Muir, Professor of EU Law at KU Leuven and Director of its Institute of European Union Law, on some of the main challenges of the EU in its human rights policy and the Court of Justice's case law on human rights.

04-29
30:36

A conversation with Ignacio Garcia Bercero on the challenges to the EU's trade policy

Daniel Sarmiento talks in detail with Ignacio Garcia Bercero, former trade expert and negotiator of the European Commission and currently a fellow in Bruegel, on the current landscape of world trade and its impact on the EU's trade and global agenda

03-17
37:29

A conversation with Sir Nicholas Forwood KC, former judge of the General Court

A conversation with Sir Nicholas Forwood KC, former judge of the General Court and one of the leading barristers of his generation, having worked on some of the seminal cases in the case-law of European courts.

01-23
52:26

Special edition: welcome to FIDE 2025 in Katowice, with K. Lenaerts, M. Szpunar and F. Nicola

Special edition: a Podcast on the upcoming FIDE 2025 Congress, that will take place in Katowice, Poland, in conversation with K. Lenaerts, M. Szpunar and F. Nicola.

12-11
19:40

A conversation on the reform of the Court of Justice with Takis Tridimas

Takis Tridimas, Chair of European Law at King's College London, talks with Daniel Sarmiento about the reform of the Court of Justice that will partly transfer the preliminary reference procedure to the General Court, as well as other major novelties that will bring about the biggest overhaul of the Union's court system since the creation of the Court of First Instance in 1989

09-13
40:56

A conversation with Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court

In conversation with Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court, on the eve of one of the largest reforms every introduced in the Union's court system, to discuss the enlargement of the General Court, the transfer of preliminary references and many other issues.

05-13
01:08:20

A conversation with Christiaan Timmermans: a life in European law

A conversation with Christiaan Timmermans, former judge of the Court of Justice, on his professional career as a European lawyer, the past and present Court, and the current state of the European Union.

11-27
52:08

A conversation with Catherine Barnard about post-Brexit Britain and the Law

Daniel Sarmiento talks with Catherine Barnard, Professor of European and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, about the implications of Brexit in the UK's legal order and the future of EU-UK relations

09-25
35:10

Artificial Intelligence and EU Law, in conversation with Cornelia Kutterer and Herwig Hofmann

Artificial Intelligence and EU Law - A conversation with Cornelia Kutterer and Herwig Hofmann about the impact of AI in the public and the private sector, seen from the perspective of EU Law and the upcoming AI Act.

06-28
42:55

A conversation with Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General of the Legal Service of the European Commission

A conversation about EU law, integration through law, and the fascinating career of one of the EU's most powerful lawyers: Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General of the Legal Service of the European Commission

05-09
38:25

A FIDE Conversation on European Social Union

A FIDE Conversation on European Social Europe with Sacha Garben (College of Europe, Bruges) and Sophie Robin-Olivier (Paris I, Sorbonne).

04-20
45:38

A FIDE Conversation on the Geopolitical implications of EU Competition and Trade

A conversation with Jean-François Bellis, Isabelle van Damme and Ben Smulders on the new geopolitical dimension of the EU's competition and trade policies

03-13
32:55

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