Academy of European Law Distinguished Lecture - Anu Bradford

This year, the Distinguished Lecture of the Academy of European Law's Summer Course on The Law of the EU was delivered by Anu Bradford, Professor at Columbia University. Europe is on the cusp of a new transformation. Revisiting Joseph Weiler's seminal 1991 article, 'The Transformation of Europe', this talk explores whether the legal and political foundations that sustained European integration for decades remain adequate in an age of geopolitical and economic rivalry. It asks what kind of constitutional and institutional transformation Europe needs to thrive in a rapidly changing and volatile world. Speaker Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. She is an expert on European Union law, digital regulation, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (OUP 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2023. It was recognised as one of the best books of 2023 by Financial Times and awarded the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.