3rd Utrecht EU Trade and Investment Law Workshop: ‘Questioning Economic Security’

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6 December 2024

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Organiser	Mode	Deadline for Abstracts
Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE)	Offline	27 September 2024

About the Event

Building on earlier editions on the trade-security nexus (2022) and the unilateral turn in EU trade and investment policy (2023), the centre is inviting scholars to submit abstracts on issues connected to the role of ‘economic security’ in EU trade and investment policy.

Important Dates

Last date for submission of abstracts	September 27, 2024
Full paper by	November 25, 2024
Conference	December 06, 2024

Sub-Themes (Suggestive)

• Concept of economic security and the role it plays in discourses within the EU trade law/policy epistemic communities
• Repercussions of the EU’s economic security agenda on non-trade related constitutional values such as the rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy
• Interrogations on the legality of EU trade instruments and their application under international (economic) law principles
• Historical or comparative analyses that aim to uncover the drivers and core features of economic security narratives across time and place

How to submit ?

• Abstracts (max. 500 words) to be sent by Friday, 27 September 2024 to Thomas Verellen t.e.verellen@uu.nl.
• To discuss and debate work in progress, the workshop will be held in a closed format.
• Participants will be expected to submit a paper by Monday, 25 November 2024 (max. 10,000 words) and will receive feedback on their work from experts in the field based in Utrecht and elsewhere.
• Selected participants will have the opportunity to submit their final papers for publication in a special issue of the Utrecht Law Review.

Official Brochure

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