Muscles from Brussels: Hybrid Talk with Geert Van Calster at UCL Laws

On 3 December 2024, at 6 pm UK time, Geert Van Calster (KU Leuven) will give a talk on Muscles from Brussels at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. The event will be delivered in a hybrid format and the readers of the blog are welcome to join either in person or on line.

The lecture is part of the International Law Association (British Branch) Lecture Series and will be chaired by Ugljesa Grusic.

The EU is flexing. It has updated its trade defence instruments and seems prepared to use them more routinely. With the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism it has extended its carbon trading regime to production abroad. In adopting the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive it aims better to police multinational corporations’ activities extraterritorially. Yet could and should it work? What are the pitfalls?

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