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Our guest today is Professor Sacha Garben, from the Collège d'Europe, and she talks about the challenges of constructing a more social Europe. Professor Garben is a renowned expert in European Law and has written extensively about over-constitutionalization of EU economic freedoms, and has published widely on the intersection of constitutional law, European law, and Labour law. She is also currently the editor of the Oxford University Press Online Encyclopedia of EU Law. The episode...

Anthony Pagden is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at UCLA, and has in the past been affiliated with Oxford, Cambridge, the EUI (Florence), and Johns Hopkins University. Easily one of the most important intellectual historians alive, Anthony Pagden has written extensively on European, and in particular Spanish history, with a special focus on the relationship between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world f...

Antoine is a Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, where he coordinates the research strand on 'Advancing Public Interests in International and European Law'. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015 after defending a thesis on the interaction between the lex sportiva (the private regulations governing international sports) and EU Law. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the ASSER International Sports Law Blog, founder and editor of the Yearbook of Inter...

Signe Rehling Larsen is the author of The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union (OUP 2021), as well as European Public Law after Empires, European Law Open (2022). In these strikingly original works, she argues, contrary to settled assumptions, that the European Union is neither a unique nor an unprecedented political structure, but one that has a venerable ideal in the form of the 'federation', as well as an uncomfortable relationship with the imperial heritage...

Janne Nijman and Helmut Aust join us to talk about their recently published Research Handbook on International Law and Cities (Edward Elgar 2021), co-edited with the assistance of Miha Marchenko. The book, which was awarded the ESIL (European Society of International Law) Collaborative Book Prize in 2022, is the result of a long process of collaboration and numerous conferences, involving several experts in the field of international law and cities. Leading the podcast today is Car...

Evan Fox-Decent is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, where he has held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice since October 2019. He is the author of several books such as Sovereignty’s Promise: The State as Fiduciary (OUP 2012) and - together with his regular co-author Evan Criddle (William & Mary Law School) - Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (OUP 2016). As these titles indicate, Evan’s re...