Top Euro expert to look at future for EU citizens in Scotland

Professor Eleanor Spaventa, from Durham University European Law Institute (pictured right) will be taking part in a major conference on ‘Brexit and Scotland’, on 29th May in Edinburgh.

She will be looking at the status of EU citizens in Scotland ‘before and after Brexit’. Professor Spaventa is one of the UK’s leading experts on free movement of workers and social security within the EU. She is a professor in Durham Law School and has given evidence on these issues to both the Scottish Parliament and the House of Lords.

Amongst her many publications, she is the author of Free Movement of Persons in the EU - Barriers to Movement and their Constitutional Context (Kluwer law International, 2007), and is the co-author of Wyatt and Dashwood’s Law of the European Union (Sweet and Maxwell, 2006 and 2011).

Also speaking at the conference will be the Scottish ministers’ adviser on European Union matters, Professor Andrew (Drew) Scott (pictured right). Professor Scott is co-director of the Europa Institute at Edinburgh University. He has published widely on subsidiarity, economic and monetary union, and economic and social cohesion within the EU. As well as advising the Scottish government, he has also acted as expert to various EC agencies, including the European Commission and the Statistical Office of the EU. Professor Scott will be speaking on “Brexit negotiation process: the key decisions and institutions”.

This conference has been recognised by the Faculty of Advocates as qualifying for 6 hours CPD.

‘Early Bird’ special rates for this conference still available until 12 May – book here now!