Lunch seminar with Francois-Xavier Millet
Regional integration courts are assumingly entrusted primarily with the building up of a single market where goods and services can move freely within the region. Their case-law is thus expected to consist, on the one hand, in guaranteeing the enforcement of regional norms, in particular against Member States that could be tempted to impede free trade, and, on the other hand, in empowering individuals and companies by conferring upon them subjective rights deriving from regional law that they can invoke before courts. Both because of their integration mandate and because some other regional courts are dedicated to the protection of human rights, the development of a human rights case-law by regional integration courts was not obvious. Several of those courts have nevertheless embraced human rights to such an extent that one may wonder whether their integration mandate, if it existed as such, has not been replaced – or, at any rate, substantially mitigated – by a human rights mandate. Looking at three non-European courts, this presentation aims at underlining how - and explaining why - the weakness of economic integration mechanisms contrasts with the relative success of fundamental rights in the case-law of those courts.
Speaker bio
Prof. François-Xavier Millet is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of the Antilles (Guadeloupe, French West Indies), where he holds of the Jean Monnet Chair in Comparative Regional Integration (CRI). A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, Sorbonne Law School and Jean Moulin University in Lyon, he obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) in 2012. He has published numerous articles in the field of EU law and comparative constitutional law in French, English and Italian. He is the author of two monographs: Le contrôle de constitutionnalité des lois de transposition en France et en Allemagne (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2011) and L’Union européenne et l’identité constitutionnelle des États membres (LGDJ-Lextenso, Paris, 2013), for which he was awarded the prix de thèse du Conseil constitutionnel and the Mauro Cappelletti Prize.
François-Xavier Millet is currently working on two edited volumes, respectively on digital constitutionalism and on the human rights mandate of regional integration courts in the world, a research project that he is exploring further at iCourts this month. He is also the co-editor of the European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst) and of the Revue trimestrielle de droit européen (RTD eur.). Between 2015 and 2021, he was a referendaire within the Chambers of Advocate General Bobek at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has held visiting positions at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) for ten years and at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy) in 2024.
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