MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Floris de Witte

Mobility, contestation and the reality of EU law

Guest presenter: Floris de Witte is a Professor at LSE Law School. His research focuses on the interaction between EU law and politics, as well as on EU legal geography. 

Presentation: EU law has long struggled to make sense of where, why and when it is contested, but also of the way in which it affects the daily life of its citizens. These two challenges, of course, are interrelated. In this talk, I will suggest that we need alternative methodological approaches to EU law that foreground the material and relational dimensions of European integration. One such approach is the approach of legal geography. Using examples of forms of mobility that have recently been contested – such as the re-emergence of the wolf and the challenge of over-tourism in European cities – I suggest that EU law faces some immanent limitations as a regulatory form.

Time: 10 April 2025 14:00-15:15

Place: MOBILE – 6B-2-22 Southern Campus + ONLINE

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