lucastalks

Welcome to lucastalks, my blog!

If you reading this post No 1, you may be asking: “What will I find here?” “Another blog? … Do we really need it?”

I will address these questions with another question. Why do academics write blogs? Don’t they already teach, lecture, contribute to law reviews and author books? Do we really need blogs – on top of all of this? Isn’t there any risk of communication inflation?

lucastalks will address topical issues briefly and quickly. What readers will find are ideas in germination, intuitions, initial findings, hypotheses or questions for further research, impressions, reactions to events in the international and EU law world, perhaps even anecdotes, and much more which I cannot possibly envisage now! To fully reflect this impromptu nature, I will keep my blog-posts brief – sometimes very brief.

If you have any reaction, write to me. I am always eager to start conversations.

I hope you enjoy it.

June 24, 2024

Transnational subsidies: How far can you go? And where will it take you to? — Awaiting the ECJ’s decision (Part 1), November 26, 2024

Transnational subsidies. How far can you go? And where will it take you to? The ECJ has spoken (Part 2), November 28, 2024

Awaiting the WTO to speak … Happy 2025!, December 21, 2024

Back to the GATT!, April 2, 2025

The Day After Liberation, April 3, 2025

In memoriam. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, April 15, 2025

How to teach international trade law in 2026?, June 23, 2025

Recasting the law of self-defence? When is “imminent” “imminent”?, June 26, 2025

What is “law”? (Post for academic lawyers), July 3, 2025