EUCE York and the IMBA Program of the Schulich School of Business are pleased to present the second annual Canada-EU Business Lecture on Wednesday, April 6th from 11am to 12:30pm in room N105, Schulich School of Business (building #42 on the map found here). This year's lecturer will be Mr. Ashley Prime who is both the Deputy Consul and Director for Trade with Great Britain's Toronto consulate. His lecture will be entitled "The Canada-EU Economic and Trade Agreement: Opportunities and Risks". All are welcome, but attendees are asked to pregister ...

Prof. Suzanne Kingston (University College Dublin/EUCE York Visiting Scholar) gave the sixth lecture in EUCE York's Lectures in Law and Governance Series on Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 12:30-2:00 pm in room 626 York Research Tower (#95 on the map found here).

Entitled "Rights, Security and Conflicting International Obligations: The Judgment of the European Court of Justice in Kadi and its Aftermath", this talk examines the European Court of Justice’s decision in Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P Kadi & Al Barakaat, a ruling which has frequently been condemned as a missed opportunity for the Court to ...

The Centre for Refugee Studies, CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre and EUCE York are pleased to a lecture by Stefan Kok, Research Lawyer with the Law Commission of Ontario and until recently a senior policy officer and strategic analyst for the Dutch Council for Refugees .This talk will take place on Thursday, March 17th from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in room 519 York Research Tower (building #95 on the map found here) . This event is open ...

On Tuesday, March 15th, EUCE York is pleased to present From the European Economic Community to a Europe of “Values”: Assessing the Limits of the “Ever Closer Union”, the fifth in the Centre's series EUCE Lectures in Law and Governance. This lecture will be given by Prof. Suzanne Kingston (School of Law, University College Dublin), a visiting scholar at EUCE York.

While the EU famously started life as a regional economic organization aimed essentially at achieving a customs union and, ultimately, a common market, the past twenty years have witnessed tremendous efforts to cast off these limitations in a ...

The European Union Centre of Excellence will present its second graduate student conference on March 11, 2010 at York's Glendon campus. This conference convenes around the title "Europe in Troubled Waters/L'Europe en eaux troubles" and will be conducted in both English and French. The challenges facing the European Union and its member states at the present are considerable. From economic and security challenges, through to questions around the sustainability of a variety of social program, Europe is faced with problems likely requiring new solutions; the new Europe demands a new way. Graduate students interested in participating are invited to submit paper abstracts ...

On March 7^th, 2011, the European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) at York University, Toronto, will be hosting a one-day conference, convening under the theme: “The Maturing of the Multicultural Experiment: European Challenges Coming to Canada?” Scholars and activists from across Canada and around the globe will be meeting at York’s Keele Campus to share their ideas on this timely and compelling topic. Convened by EUCE York Research Fellows, Hannah Biesterfeld (Master's Candidate, Political Science, York), Karina Pogosyan (MPIA candidate, Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, York) and Sibylle Schaffhauser (Master's Candidate, North American Studies, ...

The European Union Centre of Excellence at York, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies  and the Schulich School of Business' IMBA program were pleased to co-present a roundtable discussion featuring York faculty which looked at the future of the European Union in light on the economic crisis currently gripping the region. This event will take place on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Should you have been unable to attend this event, you ...

The fourth in EUCE York's series EUCE Lectures in Law and Governance will take place on March 8, 2011 under the title "Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State" and will be given by EUCE York Visiting Scholar Prof. Peter Lindseth (School of Law, University of Connecticut) from 12:30-2:00 pm in room 108 Osgoode Hall Law School (building #32 on the map found here). Prof. Lindseth's lecture will be ...

EUCE York is pleased to present a lecture by Morag Goodwin (Assistant Professor, Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands) on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in room S821 Ross (building #28  on the map found here). Prof. Goodwin's lecture is entitled "Spotlight on Fundamental Rights in the EU: the deportation of Roma from France" and is the third lecture in the series "EUCE Lectures on EU Law and Governance".

This event is open to all ...

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at the Osgoode School of Law, York University and a partner of EUCE York presented a lecture by Prof. Vlad Perju (School of Law, New York University) entitled "The Idea of Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism" on Friday, February 11, 2011. The lecture was presented as part of Nathanson's Legal Philosophy Series and is available in streaming video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcb3FdcpF0 Prof. Matt Grellette (McMaster University, Hamilton) acted as a respondent to Prof. Perju at this talk. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served. Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Time: 2:30-4:30 pm Location: Ross ...