Eleanor Spaventa

Member of the Management Council
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Eleanor Spaventa
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Eleanor Spaventa is Professor of European Union Law at Bocconi Law School, Milan (Italy). She previously worked at the law schools of Durham, Birmingham and Cambridge Universities (UK); in 2014 she held a Christopherson/Knott fellowship at the Institute for Advance Studies in Durham and a Fernard Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. Eleanor has also held various visiting appointments including Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (2009-2012).

Eleanor's research interests lie in European Union Law and in particular in the fields of European constitutional law, free movement, fundamental rights, Union citizenship and Brexit. Her work is widely referred to including by by Advocates General of the European Court of Justice and she has been invited to provide written evidence on the Lisbon Treaty by the House of Lords Constitution Committee and has submitted evidence (and was quoted in the final report) to the Ministry of Justice as part of the balance of competences review on Fundamental rights. She was also invited to give oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament on citizens' rights after Brexit.

Eleanor has authored studies for the European Parliament's PETI Committee on Article 51 of the Charter; and on Citizens' rights after Brexit.

Eleanor is an analytical expert for the MoveS network (previously FreSsco), a network of independent experts on the free movement of workers and social security funded by the European Commission to provide expert guidance in these fields; she has co-authored two reports on barriers to movement and atypical employment.

European Policies

EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, How to Escape Jurisdictional Blackholes
2023

The Council and High Representative for foreign Affairs must ensure that Common Foreign and Security Policy do not deprive individuals of their rights, and must, as a matter of EU constitutional law, include in all instruments a jurisdictional clause indicating the national court responsible to ensure effective judicial protection.

Conferences

European Parliament Elections: What the Result Might Mean for Europe's Future
22/04/2024 - 22/04/2024
AULA FRANCESCHI - BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, VIA SARFATTI 25

As Europe prepares for the 2024 elections to the European Parliament in June, this panel brings together European thought leaders to discuss the implications of the elections for the EU's future.
With: Catherine De Vries, Sylvie Goulard, Isabell Hoffmann, Eleanor Spaventa.

Crisis, Risk, and European Governance
21/09/2023 - 22/09/2023
via Roentgen 1, room 4-e4-sr01

This workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of scholars working on crisis, risk, and European governance. It is motivated by questions about how crises have shaped institutions and their policies and how European institutions, in turn, imagine, anticipate, manage, and sometimes even exacerbate a wide range of challenges, from growth and climate to security and conflict.

wEUbinars

A IEP@BU Webinar Series: The Future of the EU Institutions
25/03/2024 - 25/03/2024
WEBINAR

In view of the European Parliamentary elections IEP@BU is launching a series of webinars on the future of the EU institutions. Whereas, there has not been any Treaty change since the Lisbon Treaty, the role of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament have evolved considerably in the past 15 years or so. The inaugural digital event will take place on March, 25, 12.30-14.00 with the following speakers: Giuliano Amato; Sylvie Goulard; Mario Monti; Eleanor Spaventa.