Lunch Hour Lecture: The powers of the EU: myths and realities

28 October 2014
The growing and ever more intrusive powers of the EU are a constant refrain in political discourse. This lecture will examine what is myth and what is reality, and will discuss the mechanisms contributing to expanding EU powers, and the constraints on such expansion. 

The growing and ever more intrusive powers of the EU are a constant refrain in political discourse. This lecture will examine what is myth and what is reality, and will discuss the mechanisms contributing to expanding EU powers, and the constraints on such expansion.

Speaker

Piet Eeckhout is Professor of EU Law at UCL. He is a leading authority in EU law and international economic law and the author of EU External Relations Law (2nd ed, Oxford University Press 2011), the leading text in this area. Before joining UCL in 2012 he worked at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels (VUB) and at King's College London, where he directed the Centre of European Law between 1998 and 2012. He co-edits the Yearbook of European Law and the Oxford EU Law Library (both Oxford University Press) and is an associate academic member of Matrix Chambers, London.

About Lunch Hour Lectures at UCL

Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL, in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.

They take place 13:15 - 13:55, are free, require no pre-booking, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.

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