Okay, so it's our last sales lunchtime seminar of the term and it's a huge pleasure to welcome Dr.

Elaine Fahey.

Elaine you probably know has worked for a long time in Amsterdam and only the September

moved to London as senior lecturer at City University.

Elaine's work covers range of issues on post-national sovereignty rulemaking, exploration of TETA, etc.

And today is going to talk about the global reach and effects of EU law, a project that

she's been working on for some time and is finalising her

book manuscript on the topic, even as we speak. And most importantly, is a Cambridge graduate,

of course. It's lovely to welcome you back. Thanks for coming today.

Thank you very much, Kenneth, and thank you very much for the invitation to be here.

It's lovely to be back here somewhere that did stimulate a lot of interest in EU law for me.

So the title of today's talk is on the global reach and effects of EU law.

And I pitched the idea between methodologies and constructs. And I say that the idea of the global reach of EU law is very much a construct,

and to deal with it as such as a process-based understanding,

enables us to get a greater feel for the development of the EU as an actor itself.

And I begin from the premise that I speak about the to start off the spread of

EU law. And the spread of EU law is a specific idea whereby the EU as an economic block, its

rules are so attractive, its rules are so convenient. So many people and entities and organizations all over the world

adopt its rules, be it in China, be it in any parts of Asia, South America, you name it,

from bottles to plastic standards to makeup to chemicals.

And I call this the empirical spread narrative all over the world EU rules are taken. They are taken and they are

received. And the idea of the spread of EU law, I say, is the subject of a very great

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