European Sovereignty: The Legal Dimension

In October 2022, the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier celebrated its 30th anniversary with a congress devoted to the legal dimension of the European sovereignty. 1992 was not only the year in which the ERA was founded, but also a key moment in the history of European integration, as it marked the signing of the founding treaty of the European Union, the Treaty of Maastricht. While sovereignty was a highly controversial issue at the time, the (geo)political and economic challenges facing the Union in recent years have brought it back to the centre of the debate. This book brings together some of the papers presented at the Jubilee Congress and explores recent concepts such as 'budgetary sovereignty', 'strategic sovereignty', and 'digital sovereignty'.   

Gavin Barrett

Gavin Barrett is a professor specialising in EU Law and the Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic and Constitutional Law in the Sutherland Law School, University College Dublin, where is also the head of Widening Participation. He is the author or editor of several books and journal special editions, most recently Law in a Time of Crises (a special edition of the Irish Jurist), and has written extensively on various current themes of EU law. He has published articles in EU Law Live, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Yearbook of European Law, the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, the European Law Journal, the Journal of European Integration, the Journal of Legislative Studies, the European Constitutional Law Review, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the Industrial Law Journal, Verfassungsblog, Europarecht, the Jahrbuch für direkte Demokratie, the Irish Jurist and the Dublin University Law Journal.

Peter-Christian Müller-Graff

Peter-Christian Müller-Graff is a senior professor of Private, Economic and European Law at Heidelberg University, a member of Academia Europaea, the president of the German Association of European Communities Studies, a member of the Comité Directeur of FIDE and of the Board of Trustees of ERA, and the honorary chair of the Association of the German Law Faculties. He studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin (FU), Tübingen, and Cornell, N.Y. (USA), completed both State Exams in Law in Baden-Württemberg and graduated as Dr.iur.and Dr.iur.habil. at Tübingen University. Prior to Heidelberg, he held full professorships at the universities of Köln (Cologne) and Trier. He is a former Judge at the Court of Appeals, served as an advisor during the European Constitutional Convention, and was visiting professor at the universities of Nancy, Bordeaux-Montesquieu, Vienna, Zurich, Cracow, Budapest (Andrássy), Cornell, Georgetown, Nihon, Tongji, and at the College of Europe.

Jean-Philippe Rageade

Jean-Philippe Rageade joined the Academy of European Law (ERA) in March 2005 and has been a member of the Management Board since October 2005. He has been the director of the Academy since January 2021. Prior to joining ERA, he was a lecturer in Economic Criminal Law at the University of Paris-IX Dauphine (1996-1998) and in French Law at the University of Bielefeld (1997-1998), and a full-time academic assistant at the Institute for International and Comparative Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (1998–2002). He then joined the investment funds practice of the largest Luxembourg law firm (2003–2005).

Viktor Vadász

Viktor Vadász joined the Academy of European Law (ERA) as a deputy director and director of programmes in January 2022. Before this, for 13 years, he was a criminal judge in Hungary. Between 2012 and 2015, he was a director of the Hungarian Academy of Justice, the training institution for judges and court staff. From 2018 on, he was an elected member and spokesperson of the Hungarian National Judicial Council. He also represented the council on the Executive Board of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary.