CELS Lunchtime Seminar: 'An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union'

Speaker: Professor Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, University of Copenhagen

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen is Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on EU welfare policies, investigating integration, national implementation of and compliance with EU social policies, including health care. Her recent work has examined the interaction between legal integration and legislative politics in the European Union, published in the book “An Ever More Powerful Court? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union” (2015) with Oxford University Press and in the article in Comparative Political Studies “Judicial Influence on Policy Outputs? The Political Constraints of Legal Integration in the European Union” (2015) vol. 48:12, 1622-1660. She is currently engaged in the TransJudFare research project, comparing and examining the interplay between law and politics in EU free movement of persons and cross border welfare.