CFP – 3rd Utrecht EU Trade and Investment Law Workshop: ‘Questioning Economic Security’  – Utrecht University, 6 December 2024

Occasion announcement

The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE)’s constructing block on EU values in Worldwide Commerce is organizing the third version of its annual casual workshop on EU commerce and funding coverage, to happen on Friday, 6 December 2024. Constructing on earlier editions on the trade-security nexus (2022) and the unilateral flip in EU commerce and funding coverage (2023), we’re inviting students to submit abstracts on points related to the position of ‘financial safety’ in EU commerce and funding coverage.

Financial safety has taken centre stage within the European Fee’s commerce technique. In July 2023, the Fee adopted an ‘financial safety technique’, and in January 2024 it launched its ‘financial safety bundle’ through which it proposed, amongst different issues, vital reforms to the Overseas Direct Funding Regulation. The blurring of commerce and safety has been seen in lots of corners of EU commerce coverage, starting from the FDI Screening Regulation, over the Anti-Coercion Instrument to the EU’s export management guidelines on dual-use objects and their software to EU-based analysis organisations. These are additionally intertwined with the EU’s in depth use of financial sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Financial safety will be examined from varied angles and thru totally different disciplinary lenses. We invite students within the fields of regulation, political science, economics, worldwide relations, historical past, and so on. to submit abstracts (max. 500 phrases) by Friday, 27 September 2024 to Thomas Verellen [email protected].

We significantly welcome abstracts that query the idea of financial safety and the position it performs in discourses inside the EU commerce regulation/coverage epistemic communities, or that interact with the repercussions of the EU’s financial safety agenda on non-trade associated constitutional values such because the rule of regulation, elementary rights and democracy. Interrogations on the legality of EU commerce devices and their software underneath worldwide (financial) regulation rules, or historic or comparative analyses that goal to uncover the drivers and core options of financial safety narratives throughout time and place are additionally very a lot welcomed.

We invite contributions by researchers in any respect profession phases. To debate and debate work in progress, the workshop might be held in a closed format. Contributors might be anticipated to submit a paper by Monday, 25 November 2024 (max. 10 000 phrases) and can obtain suggestions on their work from consultants within the discipline based mostly in Utrecht and elsewhere. Chosen contributors could have the chance to submit their remaining papers for publication in a particular problem of the Utrecht Legislation Assessment.

We might be able to supply restricted monetary help for journey and lodging. Please point out in your submission whether or not you wish to profit from this.