About this Event
The Irish Legal History Society AGM and Winter Discourse is an in-person event for the general public.
Winter Discourse
Dr William Phelan, Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver a talk titled “Robert Lecourt, President of the European Court of Justice 1967–1976.”
In the 1960s and 1970s, the European Court of Justice declared the direct effect and supremacy of European law, laying the foundations for today’s EU legal order. At the centre of this legal revolution was Robert Lecourt, a French politician appointed as a judge of the Court of Justice by the French government in 1962, just before the landmark Van Gend en Loos judgment. He served as President of the ECJ from 1967 to 1976.
Before joining the Court, Lecourt was a legal scholar, practicing lawyer and “social Catholic” youth activist. He headed a Resistance network during the war and, in postwar France, was elected Deputy and appointed Minister of Justice. The talk will examine his life and contributions to the birth of European law, as a special lecture marking Ireland’s holding of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Event venue & nearby stays
Europe House, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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