Values in EU Law – Beyond Eurocentrism

Iyiola Solanke is Jacques Delors Professor of European Union Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She was previously Professor of European Union Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds Law School and the Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the University. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai’i School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law and Harvard University School of Public Health.  Professor Solanke is a former Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. She is an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple.  
Her research focuses on institutional change, in relation to both law and organisations. Her work adopts socio-legal, historical and comparative methodologies. She is the author of ‘EU Law’ (CUP 2022), ‘Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law’ (Routledge 2011) and ‘Discrimination as Stigma – A Theory of Anti- Discrimination Law’ (Hart 2017), as well as many articles in peer reviewed journals.  

Tamara Perišin graduated from the University of Zagreb. She holds a Magister Juris degree from the University of Oxford where she was a Chevening scholar, and a PhD from the University of Zagreb. She was a visiting researcher at the Asser Institute, a Fulbright fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Michigan, a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning fellow at Central European University Budapest, and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and at Harvard University.
Prof. Perišin held the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Zagreb and coordinated the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “EU Global Leadership in the Rule of Law”. Alongside being a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb, she was a John Hervey Gregory Visiting Professor of Law and World Organization at Harvard Law School where she taught the course “Global Effects of EU Law”. She also participated in Croatia’s EU accession negotiations, particularly in the team dealing with the free movement of goods. She has authored and edited books and articles on a wide range of topics, including on the EU internal market, external trade, the role of courts, and on critical legal studies in the EU context.
Since 2019, Prof. Perišin has been a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union: General Court.

Gildelen Aty-Biyo is a PhD researcher in law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research interests lie at the intersection of property law, legal theory, and international and European law. Her work focuses on forest ecosystems governance, Global South epistemologies, and theories of social justice and development. She is the co-convener of the Private Law Working Group and Black History Month Initiative at the EUI.