Book Discussion Event: The Brussels Effect
The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice cordially invites you to attend a Discussion of Anu Bradford’s book The Brussels Effect How the European Union Rules the World (OUP 2020). This event will be held via Zoom on Thursday, October 29 at 12:45pm – 1:45pm (EST)
Participants:
Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia University
Anne-Lise Sibony, Professor of European law, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Richard Stewart, University Professor, NYU School of Law
Thomas Streinz, Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School, Co-Director, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice
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The Brussels Effect challenges the prevalent view that the European Union is a declining world power. It argues that notwithstanding its many obvious challenges, the EU remains an influential superpower that shapes the world in its image through a phenomenon called the “Brussels Effect.” The Brussels Effect refers to the EU’s unilateral power to regulate global markets. Without the need to resort to international institutions or seek other nations’ cooperation, the EU has the unique ability among nations today to promulgate regulations that shape the global business environment, elevating standards worldwide and leading to a notable Europeanization of many important aspects of global commerce. Different from many other forms of global influence, the Brussels Effect entails that the EU does not need to impose its standards coercively on anyone—market forces alone are often sufficient to convert the EU standard into the global standard as multinational companies voluntarily extend the EU rule to govern their global operations. In this way, the EU wields significant, unique, and highly penetrating power to unilaterally transform global markets, including through its ability to set the standards in diverse areas such as antitrust regulation, data protection, online hate speech, consumer health and safety, or environmental protection.