The 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. Walter Ganshof, who understood from the very beginning the potential of the Foundation, became its president after the death of Mrs Beddington.
The chair, held at the ULB by a visiting professor from Oxford or Cambridge, focuses on the economic, historical, political and legal aspects of European integration or on public law.
Catherine Barnard – What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: EU law, free movement and… Great Yarmouth
Chris Bickerton – The long 1989
Paul Betts – A Re-Civilising Mission: The Cultural Reconstruction of Europe after 1945
Alison Young – Brexit and the United Kingdom constitution
Kenneth Armstrong – Governed by Europe or governing through Europe. Lessons from Brexit
Sanjeev Goyal – Integration and diversity
Andrew Arsan – Integration and intervention: Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East, c.1815-2016
Paul Craig – European public law: challenge and change
John R Spencer – Noli me tangere? Tensions between Europe and the UK over criminal justice
John Loughlin – European federalism in times of crisis
Kevin O’Rourke – Why flexibility matters: some historical lessons for Europe
Avi Shlaïm – Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Guy Goodwin-Gill – Principles of international refugee law
John Bell – European legal culture(s)? Convergence and persistant diversity
Kalypso Nicolaidis – Eutopia – On the idea and practice of Europe as a model
Paul Collier – Democracy, development and violence
Martin Conway – Europe’s democratic age 1945 – 73: an exploration of a world that has disappeared
Mads Andenas – Who will supervise banks in Europe?
Richard Fentiman – Problems in European private international law: an English perspective
Anne Deighton – Why history matters : European integration past and present
Paul Seabright – Competition between firms and competition between governments in the European Union: theory and evidence
Philip Allott – Constitutionalism in the European Union