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Brexit and Enforcement of EU Law and Policy

The UACES Research Network on the Effective Enforcement of EU Law & Policy (www.euenforcement.com) is delighted to launch a call for papers with a view to submitting at least two panels for the UACES 51st Annual Conference which will be held on 6-8 September 2021.  UACES have confirmed that the conference will take place entirely online.

As our panels were unable to go ahead at last year’s conference in Belfast, we have decided to retain the theme of Brexit and the enforcement of EU law and policy.  We would like to invite papers which explore the ramifications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on compliance with and the enforcement of EU law and policy. Paper proposals are invited, but not restricted to, the following aspects of the debate:

• The impact of Brexit on the governance and institutional architecture of enforcement at international, regional, national and devolved/decentralised levels;
• The implications of Brexit for enforcement in specific policy sectors, e.g. environmental policy, food policy, social policy, health policy, state aid, competition, employment rights, data rights and consumer protection;  
• The enforcement of the EU acquis in the UK post-Brexit;  
• The enforcement of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland and the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement;
• The role of regulatory alignment for the enforcement of UK/EU law;
• The consequences of Brexit for the enforcement of EU law in other Member States. 
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We welcome papers from all academic disciplines (but not limited to) law, politics, public policy, economics, sociology, geography and history.

We accept proposals from established academics, practitioners and well-prepared doctoral students.  

We particularly welcome proposals from BIPOC academics, scholars from under-represented geographies (e.g. the Global South) and scholars from disciplines that are less well represented at UACES conferences including anthropology, cultural studies and history.

If you are interested in contributing, please send a title, abstract (300 words maximum) and short biography with contact details to the panel conveners, Dr. Sara Drake (DrakeS@cardiff.ac.uk) and Dr. Ludivine Petetin (PetetinL@cardiff.ac.uk) by Friday 26th March 2021. 

Health Governance in the EU

We are delighted to extend our deadline for submission of abstracts on the theme of Health Governance in the European Union, to join our panels at the upcoming UACES conference. This follows confirmation from UACES that the 2021 conference will take place fully online.

The panels will explore all areas of EU health law and policy, including but not limited to:

The EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent changes to the health governance framework (European Health Union, proposals for a strengthened health security framework, etc.) Public health, health determinants and health inequalities in and across member states The role of European actors – the Commission, the Parliament, the agencies, WHO Europe etc. – in health and health governance The impact of the single market upon health systems, for example via competition law, pharmaceutical regulation, migration of health professionals, trade...

The inclusion of health in broader governance frameworks such as the European Semester, the Pillar of Social Rights, Europe 2020...

As part of our new UACES research network on EU Health Governance, we are delighted to offer subsidised participation at the conference. Due to the conference now taking place fully online (no travel and accommodation costs apply), we will assess how to fairly distribute the subsidy, taking into account registration fee, number of participants, and early career researcher status.

We welcome papers from all disciplines, including law, public policy, sociology, economics, public health, global health etc., pertaining to any dimension of EU health governance. If you are planning to submit a paper on a topic related to the above, and are interested in doing so as part of a pre-formed panel, please contact euhealthgov@gmail.com by Sunday 28 March. We will select from these and confirm inclusion by Tuesday 30 March, so that any unsuccessful submissions can be sent to the general call ahead of the 1 April deadline. For inclusion please send:

Paper title and abstract of no more than 400 words Full name, email address and institution/organisation of all authors Indication of eligibility for the early-career conference subsidy

Who asked you anyway?! – Unintended shapers of European social policy

Social policy remains an area of fragmentary laws and competences at the EU level – and one in which many actors with different roles and a wide range of interests are involved. Given that the European social dimension is characterized to a large part by non-binding measures, soft-law mechanisms and multi-level consultation processes, there are many opportunities for actors to get involved who hold no legislative or executive power in the area, yet who seek to exert influence on policy outcomes.

This non-traditional panel seeks to shed light on these actors who shape(d) European social policy even though they were/are not provided to do so by formal rules and Treaty provisions. It is open to both past and present cases of formally unintended, activist or accidental, more or less successful shapers of sociopolitical legislation, action or cooperation at the EU level.

The panel is non-traditional in that it will not consist of a series of paper presentations, but of short profiles of the selected actors and their respective strategic approaches to leave their mark on (any part of) the EU’s social dimension. Panelists will be asked to brief the panel’s audience on one such actor’s pattern of action, on their attempts to shape European social policy, and on instances of success and/or failure. They are also asked to answer (from their actor’s perspective) the question: “Who asked you anyway?!”, i.e., to ‘justify’ their actor’s involvement in European social policy. After a round of Q&A, the audience of the panel gets to vote for the actor with the best strategic approach to informally shape European social policy (and possibly for the panelist with the most compelling presentation).

If you are studying any such actor who has been involved in the broad field of European social policy-making in the past or present without a formal/Treaty-provided role, and if you would like to present your findings in a more unconventional format than the typical conference panel, please consider submitting an abstract (max. 350 words; plus your affiliation) with a brief outline of your idea for a contribution to Mechthild Roos (mail@mechthildroos.eu) by 25 March 2021. You will be informed whether or not your contribution is included in the panel by 29 March 2021 (i.e., three days ahead of the 1 April deadline for the overall UACES Conference).