The Fondation Wiener-Anspach is delighted to announce that the holder of the 2023-2024 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College.
Catherine Barnard, FBA, FLSW, FRSA, is the author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms (Oxford, OUP, 2022), and (with Peers ed) European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2023). She is a member of the European Commission funded European Labour Law Network (ELLN). She is also a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE), a non-partisan think-tank which does research and provides information about all aspects of Brexit to the general public. She has appeared on the main media channels – BBC, ITV and Sky – as well as some of the more specialist programmes such as Law in Action, Woman’s Hour, Question Time, Any Questions and the Briefing Room. She has also written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has given evidence to numerous select committees on the legal issues connected with Brexit. She has her own podcast, 2903cb, and she blogs on Brexit, mainly for UK in a Changing Europe.
Catherine Barnard will be welcomed at the Université libre de Bruxelles by Professor Chloé Brière, Director of the Institute for European Studies.
The opening lecture of the Chair will take place at ULB on Wednesday 7 February 2024. More information on this event and on the full programme of the Chair will soon be published on our website.
The Ganshof van der Meersch Chair was established in 1995 in memory of Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, founder and president of the Institute for European Studies at the ULB, holder of the chair of Public Law at the ULB, attorney general at the Belgian Court of Cassation and vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights. He was also the second president of the Fondation Wiener-Anspach. The chair, held at ULB by a visiting professor from Cambridge or Oxford, focuses on the economic, historical, political and legal aspects of European integration or on public law. You can find here the list of previous holders of the Chair.