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If this broader approach is adopted, what can be learnt about values in EU law?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The registration is closed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-buttons btn-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-button\"    aria-disabled=\"false\"\n    >\n    <a\n        role=\"link\"\n        aria-disabled=\"false\"\n                    href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcel-en\/calendar?post_type=events&#038;p=3314&#038;calendar\"\n                target=\"_blank\"\n        class=\"btn btn--secondary\"\n            >Add to calendar<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"23-january-2026\"\n    >\n23 January 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list list-highlighted list-highlighted--architectural\"><li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"13-00-13-30\"\n    >\n13.00 &#8211; 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14.30<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p><strong>Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"section section wp-block-unilux-blocks-headline-text-and-image\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"prof-iyiola-solanke\"\n    >\nProf. Iyiola Solanke<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper flex flex-wrap lg:-mx-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-7\/12 lg:order-2 lg:px-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-image-video-wrapper\">\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104738\/solanke.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104738\/solanke.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104738\/solanke-150x150.jpg 150w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 66.00% 40.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 66.00% 40.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/2; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-5\/12 lg:order-1 lg:px-32\">\n<p>Iyiola Solanke is&nbsp;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\u2019i School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law and Harvard University School of Public Health.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>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&nbsp;\u2018EU Law\u2019&nbsp;(CUP&nbsp;2022),&nbsp;\u2018Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law\u2019&nbsp;(Routledge 2011) and&nbsp;\u2018Discrimination as Stigma &#8211; A Theory of Anti- Discrimination Law\u2019&nbsp;(Hart 2017),&nbsp;as well as many articles in peer reviewed journals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-buttons btn-list\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"section section wp-block-unilux-blocks-headline-text-and-image\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"prof-tamara-perisin\"\n    >\nProf. Tamara Perisin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper flex flex-wrap lg:-mx-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-7\/12 lg:order-2 lg:px-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-image-video-wrapper\">\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104721\/Tamara.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104721\/Tamara-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104721\/Tamara.jpg 540w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/2; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-5\/12 lg:order-1 lg:px-32\">\n<p>Tamara Peri\u0161in 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.<br>Prof. Peri\u0161in held the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Zagreb and coordinated the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence \u201cEU Global Leadership in the Rule of Law\u201d. 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 \u201cGlobal Effects of EU Law\u201d. She also participated in Croatia\u2019s 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.<br>Since 2019, Prof. Peri\u0161in has been a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union: General Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-buttons btn-list\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"section section wp-block-unilux-blocks-headline-text-and-image\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"gildelen-aty-biyo\"\n    >\nGildelen Aty-Biyo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper flex flex-wrap lg:-mx-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-7\/12 lg:order-2 lg:px-32\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-image-video-wrapper\">\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104856\/gildelen-atybiyo-2022.x55dc1850.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104856\/gildelen-atybiyo-2022.x55dc1850-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104856\/gildelen-atybiyo-2022.x55dc1850-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104856\/gildelen-atybiyo-2022.x55dc1850-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/01\/09104856\/gildelen-atybiyo-2022.x55dc1850.jpg 800w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 63.00% 4.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 63.00% 4.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/2; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper w-full lg:w-5\/12 lg:order-1 lg:px-32\">\n<p>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. 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