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Speaker: Prof Daniele Gallo, Luiss University, Rome
Chair: Prof Francesca Strumia, City St George’s, University of London
Discussants: Dr Lilija Alijeva, City St George’s, University of London and Dr Elif Kuskonmaz, University of Essex
The seminar, which builds upon Prof. Gallo’s book on Direct Effect in EU Law (EU Law Library Series, OUP, 2025), will offer a fresh understanding of direct effect in EU law. It will explain that such chameleon-like doctrine has evolved into a broader legal category than it was at the outset of the European legal integration process and that such transformation has not been correctly articulated by the CJEU due to an unpredictable and at times inconsistent case law.
In the seminar Prof. Gallo will identify direct effect’s contemporary (and true) core elements and will reflect on its relationship with the principle of primacy and the remedy of disapplication. In doing this, he will argue that direct effect is not only a legal concept, but also a political construct through which national laws, normally passed by the Parliament, are challenged and replaced by EU law.
This is why, when at issue are fundamental principles such as direct effect, the CJEU should use its best efforts to properly frame and develop their evolution throughout its jurisprudence.
About the speaker
Daniele Gallo is Full Professor of EU Law and Co-Director of the LLM in European Law and Policies at Luiss University (Rome), where he held the Jean Monnet Chair in Understanding EU Law in Practice: EU Rights in Action before Courts and was the Deputy-Provost for the European Alliance ENGAGE.EU.
He is currently a Fellow at Universidade de Lisboaand a Professeur invité at Sciences Po Aix (Aix-en-Provence), and has been recurring visiting professor in several universities in Europe and US, including Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris) and the School of Law of American University (Washington DC). Previously, he was European Union Fulbright Schuman Scholar at Fordham Law School (New York), DAAD Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg), and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence).
He is the author of four monographs, including Direct Effect in EU Law (EU Law Library Series, Oxford University Press, 2025) and Public Services and EU Competition Law. The Social Market Economy in Action (Routledge, 2021), as well as of over 130 articles on various topics of EU law, including EU constitutional law, EU procedural law, the internal market, competition law and state aid, fundamental rights, and external relations. He is also the co-editor of three journal special issues and two volumes, including The Preliminary Ruling Procedure, Today: Revisiting Article 267 TFEU’s Constitutional Backbone (European Journal of Legal Studies, 2023) and The Italian Influence on European Law: Judges and Advocates General (1952-2000)(Hart, 2024).
Attorney-at-Law, admitted to practice before the highest courts in Italy, professor Gallo has pleaded before the European Court of Human Rights, the UNIDROIT Administrative Tribunal and the ILO Administrative Tribunal, and regularly pleads before national jurisdictions, the EU General Court, the EU Court of Justice, and the European Commission.
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