Activities and Contact
The network's activities include:
- Representation at the annual UACES conference
- Sponsorship for network members to attend UACES and other conferences
- Regular posts on a dedicated Ideas on Europe blog
- Workshops and training events
Information about EUFutures events and publications can be found on this page by scrolling down. To keep up to date, share ideas, work and interests, and 'join’ the network, please get in touch with one of the network coordinators or follow us on Twitter for updates.
Members of the EUFutures Network organised and presented two panels at UACES Belfast on 5 and 6 September:
- Panel 616 “Towards EU Law’s Embeddedness” on 5 September from 4pm-5.30pm
- Panel 816: “The EU’s Judicial System under Scrutiny: a Focus on Research Methods and Theoretical Approaches” on 6 September from 1.15pm-2.45pm
Both panels brought together scholars from different disciplines to think about aspects of EU integration.
EUFutures Research Network in Conversation
On 20 June 2023, the coordinators of the EUFutures Research Network recorded a conversation with Dr Veronika Fikfak and Dr Michal Ovadek about their experience of using different methodologies in studying EU integration, and the advantages and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research. Watch the recording of the conversation on YouTube.
Professor Arthur Dyevre - EUFutures Research Network Masterclass
On 19 May 2023, Professor Arthur Dyevre gave an online Masterclass on Using Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Statistical Modelling. His paper was entitled: “Friend or Foe? Exploring the Effect of Trade on Third Party Submissions in Supranational Disputes Using Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Statistical Modelling”. Dr Jan Zglinski acted as discussant. Watch the recording of the event on YouTube.
EUFutures Research Network Launch Workshop:
Understanding legal integration/disintegration: in search of new perspectives
Held on 4 November 2022 - City, University of London
On 4 November 2022, EUFutures held its first workshop at City, University of London. The keynote speech was given by Professor Mikael Rask Madsen. The papers covered a diverse range of topics. The programme can be viewed here . A working paper summarising the discussions of the day can be found here.
This Workshop was organized in the framework of EUFutures, a UACES Research Network supported by the James Madison Charitable Trust. Further activities of the Network are planned for 2023.
EUFutures at the UACES Conference 2022 in Lille
Elaine Fahey, Fabien Terpan and Rebecca Zahn organised a Roundtable Introducing EUFutures at the UACES Annual Conference 2022 in Lille on 5 September 2022. There was a fantastic discussion about the challenges of interdisciplinarity and getting away from just law in our writing.
Call for Papers
EUFutures Research Network Launch Workshop:
Understanding legal integration/disintegration: in search of new perspectives
4 November 2022 - City, University of London
This Workshop is organized in the framework of EUFutures, a UACES Research Network supported by the James Madison Charitable Trust. The Workshop will formally launch the Network and will provide an opportunity for network members to come together to reflect on the future methodological direction(s) of EU law and EU integration; to identify training needs for EU lawyers interested in interdisciplinary study; and to consider both how law could open itself up to methodologies from other disciplines, and what legal analysis could offer political, economic and historical approaches.
We invite paper proposals that focus on EU law from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, e.g., law, economics, sociology, political science, history, or papers based on an interdisciplinary approach. These papers can either be methodological reflections on how to approach the interdisciplinary study of EU law and legal integration and/or examples of work where different methodologies have been applied. They must tend at finding new ways to understand the logics of legal integration / disintegration.
Paper proposals of 300-500 words are invited from scholars at all stages of their career. There will be a dedicated panel for postgraduate and early career scholars (please indicate in the paper proposal if this applies). All participants must be willing to participate in building the network.
There will be an opportunity to publish papers as open access working papers after the workshop. We will include a selection of papers in a joint proposal for an edited book collection and/or a special issue of a journal.
Proposals must be submitted by 29 July 2022 to eufuturesnetwork@gmail.com.
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