Controversial Contemporary Direct Effect: Directives and Beyond: CELS Lunchtime Seminar

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Speaker: Professor Daniele Gallo, Luiss University, Italy

Abstract: The seminar, building upon Professor Gallo’s book, Direct Effect in EU Law (EU Law Library Series, OUP, 2025), will explore the uneasy trajectories of a transformative doctrine such as direct effect. By reassessing both the present and future of this legal and political construct, it will argue that such chameleon-like principle has evolved into a broader legal category than it was at the outset of the European integration process and that this development has been only partially captured by the CJEU. In doing so, Professor Gallo will revisit the no horizontal direct effect rule of contemporary directives and argue for its overcoming in light of the text, scope, and objectives of legal acts that are substantially different from those envisaged by Article 288 TFEU.

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https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series

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0:00.0	Well, good afternoon, everyone.
0:02.0	Lovely to see you.
0:03.0	I realise it's the end of term and people are getting tired.
0:07.0	But we have the honour and privilege of having the most marvellous, marvellous colleague and friend
0:14.0	Danieli in the Italian Gallo, who has written this extraordinary book on direct effect. For those of your undergraduates
0:23.4	and did one supervision on it, you really only scrape the surface because Danieli has produced
0:29.9	a substantial tome in this marvellous series called, which is aimed to publish important and
0:36.6	original studies of various branches of EU law.
0:40.0	And that's exactly what Danieli has done.
0:43.4	So I rather than spend a great deal of time introducing him, because it's much more interesting to hear what he's got to say,
0:50.0	just to say that Danieli is at Luis University in Rome, which is the most magnificent place, a wonderful university.
0:56.9	And he does great things there with the most wonderful relationship with his students.
1:03.5	And no doubt he will do the same for you.
1:05.6	So thank you very much for coming.
1:07.0	You've got about half an hour, 40 minutes, and then take some questions.
1:10.5	And if you want to do it from here, so that the people are going to say it.
1:19.6	Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much, Catherine, and all the colleagues and students for being here. It is a great opportunity.
1:32.3	It is a great honor for me to debate the rat effect with you all.
1:37.3	And that will be a debate, if I'm not mistaken, Catherine,
1:41.3	correct me if I'm wrong.
1:42.3	So I look forward to hearing your comments, criticism,
1:46.0	feedback, whatever you wish.
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