Name: Recent developments in European Law and Policy
Start: 2026-02-19 16:30:00
End: 2026-02-19 18:00:00
Location: Weicker Building

PhD Seminar Series

Topic: Banking and Financial Regulation

Abstract

This seminar will pick leading recent cases of the CJEU to discuss the evolution of concepts of EU law in various policy areas. Each session will focus on one area. Each session’s case will be presented by either a PhD, Postdoc or Professor. The presenter will outline the case, point to early commentary of the case and background reading to comprehend the field and lead the discussion with the other members during the seminar.

Case-area

Joint Cases C-639/22 to C-644/22 X and Others v Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst Utrecht and Others

Together, the participants will review evolutions of EU law through the lens of litigation. This allows positioning to the degree the reported facts of a case show, also studying real-life background to cases as well as their reception in national law. The discussions will thus ensure a study of EU law in diverse policy and life contexts and will cover a wide scope of methodologies used in analysis from textual, contextual, historic, multi-lingual and comparative law. It will also discuss how concepts of EU law evolve from various national understandings.

The cases to be discussed during the semester will pertain to, inter alia,the following areas of EU law: