European Legal Order Seminar: Unveiling the Unknown Consequences of Brexit: Tax Treaties, State Aid and More

Date: 

Monday, September 30, 2019, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.

Brexit introduces interesting challenges both at the European level and across the globe. Much has been discussed on this topic and players are able to anticipate the consequences of both, a hard and a soft(er) Brexit. However, tax remains a somehow uncovered area and no steps have been taken in order to prevent some EU normative presence after the potential exit from the EU.

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This panel will critically discuss these areas, focusing particularly on issues connected with tax treaties and State Aid. Furthermore, it will showcase how supranational law (both on an international and European level) produces consequences that go much beyond the intended territorial scope of application. It will also show how States, while remaining sovereign and able to leave regional blocks of integration, are progressively bound by rules and standards created by those blocks, limiting substantially their status of independent and autonomous subjects of international law.

Speakers: Kathleen Saunders Gregor. Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP; Stephen Shay. Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School; Pasquale Pistone. Academic Chairman; Jean Monnet Ad Personam Chair in European Tax Law, IBFD; WU Vienna; and Joao Nogueira. Adjunct Academic Chairman, IBFD. 

Chair: Jose M. Martinez Sierra. Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government and RCC Director, Harvard University; Co-Chair, European Legal Order Seminar; Co-Chair, Europe in the World Seminar; Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Sponsors: RCC; European Legal Order Seminar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair in European Union Law and Government; International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD).