20 March 2007

Scrymgeour seminar series - Wednesday March 21st

The last in this semester’s series of Scrymgeour Seminars at the University of Dundee takes place this week when a leading expert on the European Union will examine the nature of foreign policy in the 50 years of European integration.

Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law at Bristol University’s School of Law, will deliver his seminar, titled "Common Foreign and Security Policy: between 50 years of European integration and a moribund Constitution", on Wednesday March 21st.

The seminar takes place in the Moot Court Room, Scrymgeour Building, Dundee University School of Law, at 4 pm and all are invited to attend.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Panos Koutrakos joined the School of Law at Bristol University as Professor of European Union Law in 2006. He is a graduate of the Universities of Athens and London, completed a stage at the European Commission in Brussels and holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has taught at the University of Durham (Professor of Law: 2004-2006; Lecturer in Law: 1999-2002) and the University of Birmingham (Reader in EU law: 2002-2004). He has been Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the University of Michigan (2005) and Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa (2000, 2002).

He is the Book Reviews Editor of the European Law Review and a contributor in Smits and Herzog Law of the European Union, on the subject of Common Foreign and Security Policy. He has contributed to training programmes for judges and civil servants from central and eastern Europe.

Panos has published extensively in the areas of EU external relations (on which he has published EU International Relations Law (Hart, 2006)), including trade relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Security and Defence Policy, and the law of the single market, with emphasis on the free movement of goods and services.

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