The Treaty of Lisbon – What does it mean for the UK?

Friday 29 February 2008 09:30 to 17:00

Location

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP

Participants

Chairs:

Sir Christopher Bellamy QC, Linklaters LLP

Professor Alan Dashwood, Professor of European Law, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Professor Margot Horspool, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Speakers:

Michael Connarty MP, Labour Member of UK Parliament - Linlithgow and East
Falkirk Constituency, Scotland; Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons

Sir David Edward KCMG QC, Vice President, British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Former Judge of the European Court of Justice

Andrew Duff MEP, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the East of England

Xavier Lewis, European Commission Legal Service

Professor Steve Peers, Department of Law, University of Essex

Timothy Kirkhope MEP, Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire & the Humber

Michael Patchett-Joyce, Monckton Chambers

Professor Richard Whitman, University of Bath

Professor Alan Dashwood, Professor of European Law, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

On 13 December 2007 Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty. Early in 2008 the Treaty will undergo the ratification process in the United Kingdom, and, if successful, the Treaty will come into force on 1 January 2009.

This Conference intends to highlight the parts of the Treaty which are of particular concern to the United Kingdom, and to explore the reasons for and effects of particular Protocols and opt-outs from the UK point of view. Matters such as qualified majority voting, the abolition of the Three Pillar structure, the role of national Parliaments, the role of the European Court of Justice and the protection of fundamental rights will be discussed by distinguished academics, practitioners, judges and MPs.