Thirty-Eighth Annual "Brussels Seminar
on The Law and Institutions of the European Union"
Brussels, Belgium, June 29 - July 23, 2010
Prof. Dr. T. Joris, Jean Monnet Chair
of the Centre for European Law of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (VUB), is pleased to announce the 2010 “Brussels
Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union”.
This three week Seminar, which takes place in Brussels,
is directed by Prof. Gabriel M. Wilner, Executive Director
of the Dean Rusk Center (The University of Georgia School
of Law (USA)), in cooperation with the Centre for European
Law of the VUB and the Institut d'Etudes Européennes
of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
The principal aim of the Brussels Seminar
is to provide a group of interested law students with intensive
exposure to the law and institutions of the European Union
(EU). The core elements of the Brussels Seminar are a series
of lectures and discussions, all given in English. A total
of approximately eighty hours of lectures, seminars, and
workshops are planned. Several briefings and other meetings
will be organised (Court of Justice, European Parliament,
Palace of Justice of Brussels, etc.).
During the Seminar, various aspects will
be addressed. The completion of an integrated internal market,
the remarkable expansion of the scope of the EU as evidenced
by the Treaty on European Union which envisages an economic
and monetary union and a political union, the accession
of the new members of the EU, and the further expansion
of the Union will be the subjects of particular attention
in Seminar discussions. EU integration through the Maastricht,
Amsterdam, and Nice Treaties will be analysed and discussed.
Also the Treaty of Lisbon will receive the necessary attention.
A small number of qualified participants
will be selected from among non-U.S. law students who have
completed most of the requirements for their law degree.
Recent law graduates, persons engaged in graduate law studies,
and law practitioners with less than five years practice
may also be admitted.
Belgian students who arrange their own
lodging will pay €650 to attend the Seminar.
Letters of application should be sent by
June 2, 2010.
More information is available at http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/brussels-seminar.html.