The Internal Market research cluster has as its aim to provide a forum where its members can meet on a regular basis to discuss current developments in internal market law, as well as the progress of scholarly research in this area. The membership of the cluster comprises academics with a wide variety of interests in this field, ranging from the core areas of the free movement of goods, services, persons and capital, to issues relating to Union citizenship and fundamental (human) rights, the EMU, consumer protection, as well as the increasingly important question of the interaction of the internal market rules with the competition rules of the EC Treaty.

News, Events and Current Work

Andromachi Georgosouli

Andromachi is interested in various issues of European Market Internationalisation including the following: (a) European financial architecture; (b) better regulation and regulatory effectiveness; (c) MiFID and Basle II; (d) European monetary internationalisation.

Lorna Gillies

Dr Lorna Gillies researches on commercial aspects of international private law. She is generally interested in the interaction between EU international private law, consumer law and the regulation of electronic commerce, and more specifically in the current revision of the Rome Convention 1980 on Contractual Obligations and its coversion to a Community Instrument and the review of the consumer acquis.

Recent publications include:

'Choice of Law Rules for Electronic Consumer Contracts: Replacement of the Rome Convention by the Rome I Regulation' (2007) 3 Journal of Private International Law, 89 -112. The Continuing Significance of Top-Down Legal Regulation of Risk in Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce' in Ramsay, I.R., Salloum, J., Horrox, N., and Mowatt, G., Risk and Choice in Consumer Society, [Ant.Sakkoulas/Bruylant. 2007. xii+377pp.

Professor Erika Szyszczak

Professor Erika Szyszczak's research reflects interests in the governance of the Internal Market and the interaction of the Internal Market rules with the Competition rules of the EC Treaty.

Publications

• “The Internal Market v The Working Environment” (1999) 24 European Law Review pp 196-201.
• Understanding EU Law ( Sweet and Maxwell, 2005, 2008) (with Adam Cygan)
• "Is Sport Special?" in The Regulation of Sport in the EU (Edward Elgar, 2007), joint editor with A. Cygan and B. Bogusz)
• “Sport and Competition” (2007) 32. 1. ELRev 95-110
• Recently she completed a book: The Regulation of the State in Competitive Markets in the EU (Hart Pub. 2007).

She is also interested in the range of justifications for the State and non-State bodies when an infringement of the Internal Market rules is alleged and the balancing of a range of non-economic values against the economic values of free trade and competition.

Her current work is reflected in a paper entitled "Renewables: Challenges and opportunities for the EU" presented to a conference organised at the Fordham law School, New York (in co-operation with the Leitner Centre, NRDC, Pace Law School and the UN Development Programme. The paper will be published in the Fordham Environmental Law Review in 2008. A paper on this theme was also presented on 12th November 2007 at the University of Leicester entitled " Lisbon, Kyoto, Moscow: Joining the Dots". The research looks at the recent conjoining of environmental policy and energy policy in the draft Reform Treaty and current EU policy to marry, what may be countervailing tendencies, in the liberalisation of energy markets, ensuring securing of supply and meeting environmental objectives.