EFTA Court Conference

  24 September 2026

This year’s conference will feature a keynote address from Professor Catherine Barnard titled ‘The UK/EU reset – lessons learned from the EEA and Switzerland’.

Other speakers are:

Piet van Nuffel, Professor, KU Leuven and Senior Expert, Legal Service of the European Commission : ‘Litigating judicial independence: the noble task of protecting judges and the complexities of upholding democracy, the rule of law and effective judicial protection’

Jarne De Geyter, University of Ghent: ‘EU Accession to the ECHR: Is the EEA an Underexposed Risk to the Autonomy of EU Law?’

Panel debate with Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir, Judge, European Court of Human Rights, Tarjei Bekkedal, Professor, University of Oslo and Dr. Nils Wahl, Senior Of Counsel at Covington & Burlington LLP on ‘The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EEA – Inclusion or exclusion?’

Pernille Rieker, Director, ARENA – Center for European Studies, University of Oslo: ‘The future of the EEA in the new geopolitical order’

Please rsvp to conference@eftacourt.int to confirm your place at the conference.

Venue

Hemicycle Building,

1, rue du Fort Thüngen

L-1499 Luxembourg