The EU Litigation Forum is Born!

The EU Litigation Forum (“EU-LF”) intends to be a platform for open discussions on EU Law as applied and interpreted by the European Courts. It will focus on both procedural and substantive law (all areas of EU law included), and concentrate on the study of Case Law. In this sense, the EU-LF does not aim to analyse legislative acts from the EU Institutions or policy initiatives taken by the European Commission. Discussions will only deal with judicial work.

 

The EU-LF is coordinated by Miguel Troncoso (Gómez-Acebo & Pombo) and Pablo Figueroa (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP), but is open to any stakeholder of the EU legal community (inter alia, private practitioners, academics, members of the EU institutions and agencies, référendaires, national judges).

 

Miguel has twenty years of experience in European law. He has a great deal of experience in litigation before the EU Courts, where he regularly intervenes representing European Union agencies. Miguel teaches EU procedural law at the Training Centre of the Brussels Bar.

 

Pablo has more than ten years of experience in European law and EU Competition law. He has a wide experience litigation before the EU and Spanish Courts. Pablo is a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University (London, United Kingdom).

 

Pablo and Miguel do not intend to monopolise the Forum. They will co-ordinate its activities and ensure it smooth and continuous functioning but, as stated above, input is welcome from all the EU legal community.

 

So far, the following people have been invited to participate at the EU-LF:

 

As members of the advisory board;

 

·       Grainne de Búrca, professor (NYU School of Law);

·       Takis Tridimas, professor (King’s College, London);

·       Denys Simon, professor (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne);

·       Alec Stone Sweet, professor (Yale Law School);

·       Paul Craig, professor (Oxford Law Faculty);

·       Joseph Weiler, professor (NYU School of Law, College of Europe);

·       Jacques Demaret, professor (Université de Liège, College of Europe);

·       Jean-François Bellis, private practitioner (Van Bael & Bellis);

·       Dennis Waelbroeck, private practitioner (Ashurst LLP);

·       Spyros Pappas, private practitioner (Pappas & Associates);

·       Nicholas Forwood, private practitioner (White & Case LLP);

• Jacques Derenne, private practitioner (Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP);
• Enrique González Díaz, private practitioner (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton) ;

·       Fernando Castillo de la Torre, European Commission Legal Service;

·       Joaquín Palacio González, European Court of Justice ;

 

As editors:

 

• Suzanne Zuehlke, private practitioner (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP);
• Adrien Giraud, private practitioner (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP);
• Carlos Urraca Caviedes, European Commission Legal Service;
• Stefan Marquardt, European External Action Service;
• Alexandre Thillier, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Pascal Berghe, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Jonathan Wildemeersch, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Pascale Hecker, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Roland Klages, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Vivien Terrein, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice;
• Carsten Zatschler, Director, EFTA Surveillance Authority;
• Christopher Brown, private practitioner (Matrix Chambers);
• Maria Ioannidou, professor, Queen Mary University;
• Albertina Albors-Llorens, professor (University of Cambridge);
• Elise Muir, professor (Maastricht University);
• Kathleen Gutman, reférendaire at the European Court of Justice.

 

The working languages of the EU-LF will be English and French.

 

Activities and materials of the EU-LF will be as follows:

 

·       A Blog open to any interested stakeholder, where case law will be analysed and discussed. Texts are to be sent to Pablo and Miguel, who will ensure their publication in the Blog;

·       A one-day annual conference, where the most relevant developments of EU Law as arising from the ECJ Case Law will be discussed;

·       Editing of a book, where minutes and materials for the conference will be published;

·       Visits to the European Court of Justice, addresses to young lawyers and law students;

·       Organizing a moot court for EU Law students.  

 

The launch event of the EU-LF will take place in the first quarter of 2018 at the Brussels Courthouse, conducted under the auspices of the Brussels Bar (both French and Dutch speaking sections). Mr. Koen Lenaerts, President of the European Court of Justice, will be invited to deliver the opening speech.

 

Contact details:

 

Pablo Figueroa

pfigueroa@gibsondunn.com

+32 2 554 70 00

 

Miguel Troncoso

mtroncoso@ga-p.com

+32 2 231 12 20