New layout for the European Law Blog

21 October 2019/ By Laurens Ankersmit, Vanessa Franssen, Benedikt Pirker, Jasmin Hiry, Oliver Garner and Orla Lynskey

Welcome to the new layout for the blog. Due to technical difficulties with the old software, it was time for a change. The new layout has been funded by the University of Liege (Belgium), the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). We are grateful for their support and we hope you enjoy the new site.

New features

1. Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm (NADE): New layout for conference and calls for papers announcements

The new layout features an improved feature for conference announcements and calls for papers. It integrates a calendar on both the sidebar and under a new page heading that gives you an overview of all the announcements that we have received. You can click on the calendar’s monthly sections to find upcoming conferences and events . Please keep sending us your calls and announcements via info@europeanlawblog.eu under the subject “NADE” (if possible please include a link).

2. Topics bar

We have a new topics bar on the left side of the site. Click on topics to try it out and retrieve related blog posts.

3. New contributions

Please do keep emailing us if you are interested in writing a post for the blog. You can write us at info@europeanlawblog.eu or if you are keen to get in touch with a specific editor regarding a particular topic, we recommend contacting the following editors for the following topics:

Laurens Ankersmit (l.j.ankersmit@uva.nl) : EU external relations law, EU environmental law, international economic law, competition law, EU internal market law
Benedikt Pirker (benedikt.pirker@unifr.ch ): NADE, EU constitutional law, EU external relations law, EU internal market law
Vanessa Franssen (vanessa.franssen@uliege.be ): EU criminal law, AFSJ, EU constitutional law, data protection and digital governance, fundamental rights
Oliver Garner (Oliver.Garner@eui.eu ): Brexit, fundamental rights, EU constitutional law, domestic constitutional law, citizenship
Jasmin Hiry (jasmin.hiry@uni.lu ): EU institutional law, EU constitutional law, citizenship, transparency and access to documents
Orla Lynskey (O.Lynskey@lse.ac.uk ): data protection and digital governance, fundamental rights, competition law

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Dr. Laurens Ankersmit is assistant professor in EU law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He studied law and international relations at the University of Groningen and at the College of Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in EU law from VU University, Amsterdam, writing his dissertation on fair and sustainable trade within the EU internal market. In the past he worked at ClientEarth, an environmental law organisation.

Vanessa Franssen is professor at the University of Liège (Belgium), affiliated senior researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the KU Leuven (Belgium) and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. Furthermore, she is a member of the Brussels bar. Prof. Franssen studied Law and Romance Languages at the KU Leuven and Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris 1. She was a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. Her research mainly focuses on EU criminal law, cybercrime, comparative criminal procedure, data protection law, economic and financial criminal law, the interplay between criminal and administrative law in Europe, as well as EU competition law.

Dr. Benedikt Pirker studied EU and international law at the University of Innsbruck, the College of Europe and the Graduate Institute Geneva. He is Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche at the Institute for European Law of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Jasmin Hiry is a PhD researcher at the University of Luxembourg in European Law, specializing in European constitutional law. After completing her Bachelor in European Law at Maastricht University she obtained her LL.M. in International Laws from the same University. During her studies she spent three semesters abroad at Birmingham City University (UK) as well as the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken (Germany). She worked as a lecturer in the Department of Public Law at Maastricht University prior to pursuing her PhD. Her research focuses on the rights of initiative in the European Union.

Dr. Oliver Garner is a Brexit Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He holds a B.A. in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws, and a Doctorate in Laws from the European University Institute (EUI). His Ph.D. thesis analyses Member State withdrawal and opt-outs from the European Union.

Orla Lynskey is a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics where she teaches on Digital Rights, Cyberlaw, IT law and Competition law courses. She studied law at Trinity College Dublin (LLB) and the College of Europe (LLM) before completing a PhD in European data protection law at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she worked as an academic assistant at the College of Europe, as a contractual agent at the European Commission and at an international law firm.

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