Welcome to UACES
Upcoming events
Browse our list of future events on all aspects of European Studies.
UACES 54th Annual Conference in Trento
Join us in Trento in 2024 to meet colleagues and other academics in the field of contemporary European studies at the University of Trento.
Trento, with its rich history and picturesque surroundings, provides the perfect backdrop for this event. Attendees will have the chance to immerse themselves in the culture of the region and enjoy the beauty of Italy.
In 2024, UACES will be offering the main conference as a three-day in-person event, from the 1st to the 4th of September, with a virtual day on the 9th of September.
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Deadlines
Upcoming deadlines for UACES funding opportunities, calls for papers and election nominations.
Just published
Read recent publications from our journals and written by our members.
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The Normative Foundations for EU Criminal Justice: Powers, Limits and Justifications
Should the European Union regulate criminal justice? This open access book explores the question forensically, establishing whether a compelling normative justification for EU action in the field exists. It develops an integrated standard based on the perspectives of the effective allocation of regulatory authority between the EU and the Member States, representation-based political theories, and harm-based theories of criminal law. This is a work that will be welcomed not only by EU criminal law scholars, but also by practitioners, judges and policymakers.
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This is Not a New World Order: Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics.
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Free Movement and Welfare Access in the European Union
This book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States' concerns regarding their welfare systems. It takes a novel dual approach: namely combining doctrinal analysis of EU citizenship case law with an examination of mobility data. This allows the study to clearly show an imbalance between the representation and protection of these conflicting interests in EU case law.
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