On Tuesday 16 April, Amedeo Arena, professor of EU Law at Naples University will give a talk about 'The Community System of Judicial Protection Between Original Intent and subsequent Practice'.
The talk is scheduled at 13h30. Colleagues and students that are interested in attending the talk can drop a quick email to brucel@vub.be.
Amedeo's talk will delve into the dynamic interplay between the original intent of the drafters of the Treaties of Paris and Rome and the subsequent practice of the Community institutions and the Member States in shaping the essential characteristics of judicial protection within the European Communities. The focus will be on the institutional aspects of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), as well as the key features of the annulment, infringement and preliminary ruling procedures, which to a significant extent still characterize judicial protection in the European Union.
This analysis, relying upon an extensive range of archival documents, will be contextualized against the backdrop of the failure of the European Defence Community and the European Political Community in the mid-1950s, as well as the 'legal revolution' ushered in by the ECJ in the early 1960s.