Abstract: Integration through law tends to be assessed from the perspective of the effects it produces, but more than a set of rules, EU law is also a language which frames the project of integration on its own terms. From a legal perspective, European integration is first and an exercise…

Abstract: In this seminar, Jakob Rendl will analyse the legal nature of the Treaties of the European Union through the lens of the theory of international treaty. Commonly, it is said that the EU-Treaties cannot satisfactorily be described by means of international legal categories. Allegedly, the transfer of the right…

Abstract: Our private lives have appeared all-encompassing during the pandemic. Confined at home, other dimensions of life seem to have become mere appendages to them. This may endure if more work, purchasing and consumption is done from home, and more healthcare and social care provided to those at home. This has…

The presentation explores the language of early European Law: The negotiators of the ECSC Treaty imagined inventing a new legal form of international cooperation. The word they came up with was ‘supranationality’. This neologism served as the starting signal for a fierce competition for semantics, and the semantic field connected…

Since 2008, Hungary and Poland have developed a distinctive populist economic program, which has begun to spread to other Central and East European Countries (CEECs). This article develops a theory of the political economy of populism in CEECs, arguing that these countries’ dependence on foreign capital constrained them to follow…