Alan Dashwood: CELS at the end of the European Communities's Golden Age (CELS 25th Anniversary)
Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On 15th September 2017, the Centre for European Legal Studies held a conference to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Centre. The conference, entitled "The Past, Present and Future of European Legal Studies" brought EU legal academics together, many of them former members or Directors, to discuss the future direction of EU legal research.
Programme:
- Albertina Albors-Llorens: Welcome and Introduction
- Bill Cornish: Gearing up for a CELS
- Alan Dashwood: CELS at the end of the European Communities's Golden Age
- John Bell: The Changing Character of Comparative Law
- John Spencer: Europe and Criminal Justice
- Catherine Barnard: Cloudy with a Chance of Albondigas (not recorded)
- Kenneth Armstrong: Brexit and the Autonomy of EU Law: Causes and Consequences
- Richard Fentiman: Concluding Remarks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you, Angela. It's a great pleasure to be back in the law faculty and an honour to have been invited to contribute to this conference. |
| 0:20.0 | I haven't written a formal paper because I thought it was an occasion when it might |
| 0:27.7 | be more appropriate to chat informally. But to remind, really, to remind myself about what we all got up to |
| 0:38.7 | in that now |
| 0:41.2 | quite distant period |
| 0:42.8 | I put together |
| 0:45.1 | the background |
| 0:48.7 | paper which I've circulated |
| 0:51.1 | I hope you all have a copy. I did that like Bill Cornish with the help of |
| 1:03.4 | Felicity and I was quite impressed by the amount that we seemed to have been able to do. |
| 1:17.8 | I was certainly most grateful for her help because I didn't, there were quite a number of things that I'd forgotten about. |
| 1:29.0 | So I'm going to run through that background paper |
| 1:32.9 | just to give an idea of the range of activities |
| 1:37.3 | during the period of my directorship of cells, |
| 1:43.0 | and then go on to make the connection between |
| 1:46.0 | cells activities and developments |
| 1:50.0 | in the European Union and in EU law. |
| 1:57.0 | Starting then with the details on my background paper, as Bill has told you already, I started |
| 2:09.2 | this director in the Michaelmas term of 1994, which was before I took up my chair fully in January 1995. |
| 2:22.9 | I had to, I'd been the member of the Council's legal service |
| 2:28.8 | with responsibility for the legal side of the enlargement |
| 2:33.8 | that was taking place on the 1st of January 1994, |
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