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Jean Monnet Lecture Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC: Lecture Follow up

18 March 2016
picture made by Niek Berendsen
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About the speaker

Eleanor Sharpston has been an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2006.

Previously she combined a career in practice at the Bar (specialising in European Union and ECHR Law) with an academic career, first at UCL and then in Cambridge where she was a University Lecturer from 1992 to 1998 and an Affiliated Lecturer from 1998 to 2006. She is now an Emeritus Fellow of King's College Cambridge.

Read the full lecture: ‘Making the Court of Justice more productive – Different ways of squaring a circle’


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Last modified:17 July 2023 09.20 a.m.

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