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January is, of course, the worst month to start a year, but before you know it we’ll be back to brightening evenings and talk of exam boards, so we can all look forward to those.

The content of this post was presented at the launch workshop of the EUFutures Research Network held at City, University of London on 4 November 2022.  In this post, we argue that research on soft law in the EU’s external relations may benefit from theoretical and empirical insights from Political Science & IR (e.g. Norm […]

The content of this post was presented at the launch workshop of the EUFutures Research Network held at City, University of London on 4 November 2022. Massimo Fichera is TIAS Senior Collegium Fellow and works at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku. How can constitutional theory as a methodology contribute to the study of […]

On 4 November 2022, the UACES/James Madison Trust funded EUFutures Research Network held its launch workshop at The City Law School, City, University of London. The organisers have now published a report summarising the workshop entitled ‘Understanding legal integration/disintegration: in search of new perspectives’. The event consisted of four panels bringing together scholars from across […]

In her master’s thesis, Silva Malin Hoffmann investigated how the European Union and European Economic Area are portrayed in the Norwegian media. This blogpost draws on her thesis, showing that membership to the EEA is framed as less negative and as entailing more national sovereignty than membership to the EU — which, Hoffmann argues, is […]

In his speech to the second African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Joint Ministerial Meeting, Josep Borrell addressed the AU arguing that “The EU is your number one partner on peace and security issues. No other partner matches the level of our support – without any kind of hidden agenda. No other partner. At […]

The content of this post was presented at the launch workshop of the EUFutures Research Network held at City, University of London on 4 November 2022. Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Professor of Law, Kent Law School @aperrykessaris https://amandaperrykessaris.org This post explores how we might draw on design-based methods to enhance our willingness and ability to work across […]

So, in a straw poll of Twitter users organised by the new Chief Twit, Elon Musk, Donald Trump has been ‘elected’ back onto the platform after being banned in 2020 for reasons we all know. “The people have spoken,” tweeted Mr Musk. Haven’t we heard that phrase before, ad nauseam, since 24 June 2016? Musk’s […]

We are excited to announce that IACES is today deepening its relationship with UACES through collaboration on the Ideas on Europe multi-blog site and a commitment to continuing the joint UACES-IACES seminar series. In addition to a further year of seminars, this means that IACES members can now also blog on Ideas On Europe, an […]

On October 25th, Tous Migrants, a French migrant advocacy organization, announced that it had filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights concerning the death of Blessing Matthew, a young Nigerian woman who died after crossing the Franco-Italian border. This appeal is based in part on new evidence in the case that came to light in an investigation by Border Forensics.