Alumni Perspectives: Colin Brown, Head of Unit, Legal Affairs, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission
Location:
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
Edinburgh Law School
Old College
South Bridge, Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
Date/time
Fri 3 March 2023
13:00 - 14:00
Colin Brown is an international trade and investment lawyer. Since November 2020 he is Head of Unit Legal aspects of trade and sustainable development and investment in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. He leads the team of lawyers working on investor-state dispute settlement in the trade and investment policy of the European Union, in particular the Investment Court System and now the work on the Multilateral Investment Court project. He is the head of the EU Delegation to UNCITRAL Working group III on ISDS reform. He also leads the teams providing legal advice on EU FTAs and on Trade and Sustainable Development.
He is guest lecturer in EU External Economic Relations Law at the Law School of the University of Edinburgh and the Academy of Internal Economic Law and Policy (Athens). He has taught EU and WTO law at IELPO, University of Barcelona and the Université catholique de Louvain.
Colin (LLB, 1996) has a Diploma in International Relations from the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe, Bruges.
Event detail
In this presentation, Colin will discuss his life after graduating from Edinburgh Law School and his career path. Colin will also speak about his current role and what it is really like being an international trade and investment lawyer.