RELEX-JHA · The achievement of an area of freedom, security and justice through the EU external relations

The achievement of an area of freedom, security and justice through the EU external relations

The most important result of the fellowship is the publication of a book, edited by the fellow, the scientist in charge and Jörg Monar, a Professor of European law with a wide expertise in the area of freedom, security and justice. The book project has been accepted by Peter Lang-P.I.E. The publication of the book is in progress; the likely date of publication is September 2010. The volume, whose title is 'The external dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice: challenges and opportunities', is a collection of essays which were presented by speakers in the context of the international conference on the topic of the research project of 29-30 May 2009. The second result is publication of an article to be inserted in the above-mentioned collection and entitled 'The role of the EU institutions and the range of legal instruments.' The third is an extended comment to the case Ireland v. Council C-301/06 of 10 February 2009 entitled 'The legal basis of cross pillar measures with a security dimension.' This article has been accepted for publication by the European Constitutional law Review. The fourth is a survey of the literature commenting on the Kadi rulings and it is published on the Yearbook of European law 2009. The fifthe is the EUI working paper entitled 'Challenging EU counter terrorism measures through the courts' which the fellow edited jointly with the scientist in charge and another Professor of the EUI. Conclusions During my fellowship, I developed my research skills. In particular, I learnt to take a cross-thematic and cross-pillar approach rather than a vertical and sector-related approach. I improved my record of publication since I published our pieces either as single author (the extended case comment to a case dealing with the choice of the legal basis in cross pillar measures; the contribution I wrote for the Relex-JHA book) or co-author (such as the survey on the Kadi literature for the Yearbook of European law) or co-editor (such as the EUI working paper on the Kadi judgments and the Relex-JHA book). In terms of training, the Marie Curie fellowship has enabled me to expand the number of areas of EC law in which I have expertise. I have been able to shift my research interests from private Community law to public Community law and to extend my competences from EC substantive law to EC institutional law and the law of external relations. Moreover, the proposed research topic concerns an area which is fairly unexplored. In terms of training, I participated to a seminar held by the scientist in charge on the role of EU in the world and to the Relex working group. These two initiatives gave me the opportunity to expand my competences in the area of external relations law. Moreover, whenever I asked for the comments of the scientist in charge to prepare the extended case note and the contribution to be presented at the May conference, I had useful feedback from her. This contributed to strengthen my training in EU external relations law. The training received has reinforced my professional maturity by giving me additional chances of being appointed Professor. Moreover, since all the publications (both in Journals and in the form of a book) in progress are in English, I will acquire a higher visibility in the international academic community and will have better chances of being invited to international conferences. This has already happened. For example, I was invited to a conference on 2 and 3 October 2009 by the European Society of International law. Socioeconomic impacts of the project The Marie Curie fellowship had a positive socio-economic impact in that it enabled me to create links within in the European Research Area and to increase its cohesion as well as to promote scientific excellence.

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