ESC-YLS Colloquium | Today's Transformation of Europe

The last colloquium of the series on the future of European integration will feature Prof. J.H.H. Weiler and Prof. Síofra O’Leary. It aims to take stock of the transformations which occurred since 1991 and discuss their implications for the future of the European Union.

J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor at NYU Law School and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He served previously as President of the European University Institute, Florence. Prof. Weiler is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON).

Síofra O'Leary is a former Judge and President of the European Court of Human Rights (2015 – 2024). She was elected as the Judge in respect of Ireland in 2015 and since 2020 served as the President of Section V, as Vice-President and as the Court’s 17th President, the first woman to have performed this role in the Court’s history.

Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He came to Yale from Harvard University, where he was Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History. Before this, he spent 13 years in the Columbia University history department, where he was most recently James Bryce Professor of European Legal History. His areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, in both historical and current perspective. In intellectual history, he has worked on a diverse range of subjects, especially twentieth-century European moral and political theory.

Part of a colloquium series on the future of European integration co-organized by Yale’s European Studies Council and the Yale Law School European Law Association. Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.