Episode #18 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features President Marc van der Woude of the General Court of the European Union in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Professor Mark Pollack (Temple).

Since 2019, Marc van der Woude has served as President of the General Court of the European Union—the lower of the two courts that make up the CJEU and the court principally responsible for reviewing the legality of acts adopted by EU institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies.. Drawing on a career that spans the College of Europe, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, a secondment as legal secretary at the Court of Justice, and nearly fifteen years at the Brussels Bar, President van der Woude’s far-ranging interview reflects on the rise of EU competition law as a global regulatory model and on the General Court’s role at the center of European administrative justice.

About this series: UC Berkeley Law’s Borderlines podcast host, Professor Katerina Linos, and guest co-host, Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University), conduct a special interview series profiling the Judges and Advocates General serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.

For a full transcript, show notes and links, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Thanks for listening!

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Episode #17 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Advocate General Laila Medina interviewed by Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). Before her appointment to the European Union Court of Justice in 2021, Advocate General Medina served in multifaceted academic and government roles and represented Latvia at the EU, OECD, and UN levels. In this interview, she discusses Latvia’s journey to join the EU in 2004, writing opinions for the Court to provoke debate and innovate, and her commitment to judicial independence and the value of oral hearings for discovering new perspectives. The podcast reviews Advocate General Medina’s opinions in complex cases concerning COVID-related package travel disputes, data privacy, fundamental rights, EU citizenship, free movement, and environmental access-to-justice, and concludes with thoughts on the Court’s role as a locus for legal inspiration worldwide.

About this series: UC Berkeley Law’s Borderlines podcast host, Professor Katerina Linos, and guest co-host, Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University), conduct a special interview series profiling the Judges and Advocates General serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.

For a full transcript, show notes and links, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Thanks for listening!

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Episode #16 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Niilo Jääskinen in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Professor Mark Pollack (Temple). Judge Jääskinen first joined the Court of Justice as Advocate General from 2009 to 2015. After returning to the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland from 2015 to 2019, Judge Jääskinen was nominated and appointed as a Judge at the Court of Justice in October 2019, where he continues to serve. This interview covers many key historical and legal EU developments, including Finland’s accession to the then-European Economic Area (EEA) in 1994 and to the European Union in 1995; the rare experience of serving as both Judge and Advocate General at the CJEU; and the ongoing balancing between rights and freedoms with security, encompassing both data privacy protection and criminal jurisprudence during the evolution of the Information Age.

About this series: UC Berkeley Law’s Borderlines podcast host, Professor Katerina Linos, and guest co-host, Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University), conduct a special interview series profiling the Judges and Advocates General serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.

For a full transcript, show notes and links, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Thanks for listening!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.