THE DIRECTOR’S SEMINAR SERIES: Decolonising EU Law

What happens when we take decolonisation as the starting point for our interaction with EU law? What could this mean in relation to teaching and research in the various fields of EU law and the EU legal order?  This paper is an invitation to explore this this idea of ‘decolonisation’ and think about how it could open up the world of European integration and EU law to a new generation of scholars and audiences.  

Professor Iyiola Solanke is Jacques Delors Professor of European Union Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College.  She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai’i School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law and Harvard University School of Public Health.  Professor Solanke is a former Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. She is an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple.  Her research focuses on discrimination and institutional change, in relation to both law and organisations.