New book, now published.

The EU Law of Investment: Past, Present, and Future (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2025), edited by Xavier Groussot, Marja-Liisa Öberg, and Graham Butler.

Hardback, here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eu-law-of...

Full open access, here: doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Appeals brought by Member States against General Court judgments to the Court of Justice under Article 56 of CJEU Statute

Case C-728/23 P.

Nice to see both a book I co-edited and an article I authored cited in the Opinion of the Advocate General today

curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

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This week in Copenhagen:

Meeting of the Agents (of the Member States) before the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social ⚖️ at the @danishmfa.bsky.social 🇩🇰🇪🇺

Speeches and discussion practice, procedure, and reasoning, sharing the stage with Niels Fenger, Susanne Lehrer, and Rass Holdgaard.

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Vacancy:

Doctoral Fellowship in European Law, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

📅 Apps: by 1 Nov '25.
💡 On offer: 4-year full-time salaried position.
💭 Interest in: Competition, data protection, privacy law.

👉 Job ID: HR-2025/1249:

🔗 EN: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I009/613...

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Can the High Representative of the EU 🇪🇺 be in CJEU proceedings ⚖️ in their individual capacity (i.e., not as Commission VP, Head of the EEAS, other 'hats')?

Evidently, yes, though with nuances as intervener, applicant, and defendant.

My contribution in a new Festschrift:

doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Is the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) leaning too heavily on 'solidarity' in its rulings?

I argue yes, and that is problematic as a matter of legal reasoning.

The full article is in current issue of the Maastricht Journal (MJ):

doi.org/10.1177/1023...

New book out now.

Research Handbook on EEA Internal Market Law, edited by one, but written by many.

Focusing on the internal market aspects of the EFTA pillar of the EEA.

Available in hardback: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

Available online: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Deposit return schemes (on drinks containers)

Are they still justified in the interests of the environment, as long claimed?

They are an impediment to the EU's internal market in the food/drink sector.

My new article (open access) in @recieljournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/reel...

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Conference and Essays in Honour of Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston.

Kudos to Catherine Barnard, Adam Lazowski, and Daniel Sarmiento for the organisation and hosting at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, this week.

The book is here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pursuit-o...

European (non-EU) international administrative tribunals of international organisations.

On the ECMWF Appeals Board and and the broader development of international administrative law.

I have a new article in the Journal of International Dispute Settlement: doi.org/10.1093/jnli...