EULOS: A PROJECT OF ITS KIND

After having been held for nine consecutive years, the tenth edition of the summer school on European Union and the Law of the Sea (EULoS) will also be offered in 2024.

The detailed program for the 2024 edition, to be held in Genoa, Italy, as an event “in person”, will be available soon. Please use the description of previous editions as an indicative guide and apply through the on-line application form.

Do not hesitate to get in touch with our staff at
summerschool@eu-los.eu for any query.

VENUE

The EULoS summer school will be offered in the year 2023, from 26 August until 6 September 2024.

The event will be “in person” and will take place at the headquarters of the Department of Law of the University of Genoa, in Via Balbi 5 (16126 Genoa).

90

Years of
Editions

200
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Staff
members

2000
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alumni

4000
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hours
of teaching

The hearth of the summer school

The EU and Law of the Sea

The interaction between the Law of the Sea and EU Law is an area of strategic importance, which deserves increasing attention.

The role of the EU with regard to the rights and duties implied in the use of world’s oceans is worth an ad hoc scrutiny not only in the light of the enhanced presence of the EU in the international arena but also because of a strategic interest that the EU has developed in recent years. Issues such as marine spatial planning, piracy, the preservation of the marine environment, fisheries agreement with third States and the navigational use of the Arctic – just to give a few examples – have been for a long time at the top of the agenda of the EU and, occasionally, a reason of divergence between the EU and its Member States.

Both the EU and its Member States are parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea pursuant to the principle of attributed powers, according to which each contracting party assumes the rights and obligations deriving therefrom to the extent allowed by their respective competences. Recent developments have, however, demonstrated that uncertainties if not outright clashes may indeed arise. Several contentious cases have been brought to the attention of the Court of Justice of the EU either by way of infringement proceedings or because of alleged inconsistencies between EU Law and international maritime treaties to which the Member States themselves are contracting parties.

All of the above … and more is at the heart of the summer school on European Union and the Law of the Sea (EULoS), which will be offered again for the ninth year in 2023 after eight successful editions.

Participants

Alumni

A small selection of the more than thirty participants to the two summer school editions held so far (including students, doctoral students, researchers and young professionals).

These alumni have agreed to be contacted to share their EULoS experience with interested parties. Details were accurate as at May 2017 unless stated differently.

Data managed in compliance with Italian Legislatve Decree No. 196 of 30 June 2003 (so-called “Privacy Code”).