IEL Working Papers

The Birmingham IEL Working Paper series provides a forum on European law and policy for papers delivered at conferences and events organised by the Institute of European Law and for papers delivered by IEL members at events outside the university.

2023 series:
Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2023-01	The accommodation of sustainability in the EU Internal Market public procurement system	Natalia Spataru (University of Birmingham)

2022 series:
Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2022-02	A Legal Perspective on Nuclear Back-End Management in the Circular Economy	Colleen Mahlert (University of Birmingham)
2022-01	The WTO Dispute Settlement System as a Forum for Climate Litigation?	Henok Asmelash (University of Birmingham)

2021 series:
Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2021-02	The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: an unfinished deal [pdf]	Wolfgang Weiß (German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer)
2021-01	Sustainability in the public procurement chapters of third generation Free Trade Agreements of the European Union [pdf]	Martin Trybus (University of Birmingham)

2020 series:

Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2020-01	FTA Dispute Settlement Mechanisms – Alternative Fora for Trade Disputes: The Case of CETA and EUJEPA	Cornelia Furculita (German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer)
2020-02	Regulatory Cooperation in EU FTAs: Characteristics of the Reestablished Practice	Kornilia Pipidi Kalogirou (German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer)
2020-03	Fundamental Rights in the Institutional Architecture of EU Trade Agreements: A Tale of Omissions	Isabella Mancini (City, University of London)

2019 series


Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2019-01	The Working Language of the CJEU: Time for a Change?	Professor Anthony Arnull (University of Birmingham)
2019-02	Pork, Peace and Principles: the Relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union	Professor Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
2019-03	“Appellate Body Held Hostage”: Is Judicial Activism at Fair Trial?	Dr Amrita Bahri (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

2018 series


Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2018-01	Brexit and the Law School: Re-imagining EU Law	Martin Trybus (editor) (University of Birmingham)
2018-02	Enhanced cooperation - a suitable means to further integration?	Robert Böttner (University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer)
2018-03	Putting a price on human rights? A policy-based approach for the protection of human rights in Europe	Stefanos Xenofontos (University of Birmingham)
2018-04	The Roads to Reversing Brexit: Local and Transnational Constitutional Principles	Robert Howse (New York University)

2017 series


Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2017-01	Energy Governance in EU-Russia Energy Relations: Paving the Way Towards an Energy Union	Natasha A. Georgiou (University of Reading) and Andrea Rocco (University of Birmingham)
2017-02	Of the State of the (European) Union and of Trade Deals	Eleanor Sharpston, Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Union
2017-03	Labour Standards and Mega-Regionals: Innovative Rule-Making or Sticking to the Boilerplate?	B. A. Melo Araujo (Queen’s University Belfast)
2017-04	Renewables, Investments, and State Aids: Exploring the Legal Side of Polycentricity	Giuseppe Bellantuono (University of Trento)
2017-05	European Union Law and Public Procurement	Martin Trybus (University of Birmingham)

2016 series


Paper number	Discussion paper title	Author(s)
2016-01	The Legal Foundations of a European Army	Professor Martin Trybus (University of Birmingham)
2016-02	(Re)inventing the Dublin System: Addressing Uniformity and Harmonization through Non-Refoulement Obligations	Jenny Poon (Western University, Canada)
2016-03	‘The ‘humanity’ of the secular legal subject’: Reading the European Court of Human Rights’ decisions over the practice of veiling’	Giorgia Baldi (Birkbeck, University of London)
2016-04	Asymmetrical Sovereignty, European Integration, and the Grey Zone of European Union Politics	Dr Georgios Maris (Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus) and Prof. Pantelis Sklias (University of the Peloponnese)
2016-05	General principles of EU law as a passe-partout key within the constitutional edifice of the European Union: are the benefits worth the side effects?	Elena Gualco (University of Genoa)
2016-06	Is There a Tomorrow for the Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR)?	Tunjica Petrašević and Dunja Duić (University of Osijek, Croatia)
2016-07	The Banking Union: Agencies and the Lesson from the US	Luigi Lonardo (King’s College London)
2016-08	Enforcing compliance of the Rule of Law by the Member States of the EU: Emphasising the EU’s Failure?	Femke Gremmelprez (Ghent University)
2016-09	A ‘right to have rights’ in the EU public sphere? An Arendtian justification for the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights	Eleni Frantziou (University of Westminster)
2016-10	The Eurasian Economic Union: Balancing Sovereignty and Integration	Rilka Dragneva (University of Birmingham)