Bruno de Witte
Professor of European Union Law,
European University Institute (Florence)
and Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence at the UW-Madison

"The Origins, the Nature and the Future of the European Constitutional Treaty"

Monday, 25 October 2004
12:00 p.m.
7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)

Sponsored by The European Union Center
and The Institute for Legal Studies (ILS)

Bruno de Witte is a Professor of Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Co-director of the Academy of European Law at EUI, a Member of the Board of Editors of the European Law Journal, a Member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law and of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, and a Correspondent of the Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario. Before joining the EUI faculty he was a Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht. Professor de Witte is a prolific writer. Selected recent scholarship includes "The Closest Thing to a Constitutional Conversation in Europe: The Semi-Permanent Treaty Revision Process", in P. Beaumont, C. Lyons and N. Walker (eds), Convergence and Divergence in European Public Law (Oxford: Hart, 2002); "Anticipating the Institutional Consequences of Expanded Membership of the European Union," International Political Science Review (2002); and "Politics versus Law in the EU’s Approach to Ethnic Minorities," in J. Zielonka (ed), Europe Unbound. Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union (London: Routledge, 2002).

Background Reading: “The European Convention and its Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: Appropriate Answers to the Laeken Question” by Juliane Kokott and Alexandra Ruth, 40 Common Market Law Review 2003, 1315-1345. Copies of this article will be distributed at the presentation. If you would like to receive the article by email, please contact Pam Hollenhorst.

Hosted by Gregory Shaffer, Associate Professor, UW Law School; Director, European Union Center, and Co-Director, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)