Craig Scott, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School who is Director of Osgoode’s Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security and a faculty affiliate of York's European Union Centre of Excellence, has been awarded a 2010 Ikerbasque Fellowship by the Basque Foundation for Science, a granting agency established by the Government of the Basque Country in Spain in 2008 with the mission to consolidate the Basque Country as “a European point of reference for excellence in the field of research.” The fellowship will support 12 months of personal research and collaboration with the ...

The EUCE and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration are pleased to present a discussion with Prof. Bruce Morrison (University of Western Ontario) on the theme of "The EU in the Context of the Study of the State and Regime Formation". This event will take place on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 from 11:00 - noon in Glendon Hall, Room 219. (Glendon Hall is Building #16 on the map found here). Bruce Morrison (PhD Harvard) is assistant professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario. He edited Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective, and is currently writing ...

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at the Osgoode School of Law, York University and a partner of EUCE York is pleased to present a lecture by Prof. Dennis Patterson (European University Institute in Florence) entitled "The Evolving State and the Future of Global Trade" on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. The lecture will run from 2:30 to 4:30 in room 001 HNES (building #29 on the map found here). Prof. Ruth Buchanan (Osgoode Hall Law School) will act a respondent to Prof. Patterson at this talk. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served. Date: Wednesday, ...

York University has been awarded a European Union Centre of Excellence grant by the European Commission in Brussels. At York, the EUCE will be housed at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and will work to both integrate York University’s existing research, teaching, outreach, and networking activities on Europe and the EU and to introduce and facilitate new activities, at York and in the wider region, promoting knowledge and understanding of the EU and the importance of the EU-Canada relationship. The EUCE at York will be a ...