The Art of Treaty Interpretation

The Edinburgh EUROPA Research Group presents:

The Art of Treaty Interpretation

Speaker: Dr Eva Kassoti, Senior researcher at Asser Institute

About the Event:

The Europa Research Group is delighted to welcome Dr Eva Kassoti, from the Asser Institute, as the first visiting scholar of this calendar year. In a shift west and south from our previous events, she will be discussing the highly complex issue of the ECJ’s treaty interpretation in the Western Sahara Campaign UK case. This case combines international law, independence movements, colonial history, and questions of sovereignty and recognition and should provide a fruitful ground for both the presentation and following discussion. For those who are interested she has recently published a paper on the subject in the Common Market Law Review entitled “The ECJ and the Art of Treaty Interpretation: Western Sahara Campaign UK”. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to this exciting event!  

About the Speaker:

Dr Eva Kassoti is a Senior Researcher in International and EU Law as well as the academic co-ordinator for the Centre of the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) at the T.M.C. Asser Institute. Eva read law at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and was subsequently admitted to the Greek bar. She completed the LL.M. in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. Her monograph entitled ‘The Juridical Nature of Unilateral acts of States in International Law” was published in 2015. Before joining the T.M.C. Asser Institute, Eva worked as a Senior Lecturer in International and EU Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences from 2012 to 2018. Eva has held visiting fellowships at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany), the T.M.C. Asser Institute, and the EUI (Florence).

This event is free, open to all and no registration is necessary.