#  HELA lunch talk: The Fragility of EU Law-making 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 29, 2019** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC 2009**  



 

 



 

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 Judith Merkies is a former Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands an experienced international lawyer specialized in European law and has worked in the private sector and in the European Commission before being elected to Parliament. In this talk, she will put a special focus: on the lack of public policy response to the impact on society by disruptive innovations.   
  
Alvaro Renedo Zalba is a Spanish career diplomat specialized in EU affairs. For the past 13 years, he served as Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain. His current research project focuses on the ways to optimize efficiency in existing channels of diplomatic interlocution between the EU and the US administration.

 **Speakers:** Judith Merkies, Lawyer EU Law & Advisor in European Public Policy Regulatory Affairs at Merkies Consultanc; Alvaro Renedo Zalba, Fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

 **Sponsors:** RCC; Harvard European Law Association.



 

 



 

 

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