The 20th EGPL Annual Reunion

With the list of participants including more than 250 members and observers coming from the academic, judicial and government sectors, the EGPL, which serves as the Scientific Council of the EPLO, celebrated its 20th anniversary this past weekend in the framework of its 2009 Annual Reunion. 

A small group back in 1989, the EGPL is now uniting 174 academics and practitioners appointed in 68 universities in Europe and worldwide, as well as in the public sector including the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the French Council of State, the Belgian Council of State, Constitutional and High Courts. 

Marking its 20th anniversary, the 2009 EGPL Annual Reunion themed “Public Law: Twenty Years After” took place on 11-13 September at the EPLO Sounio Office, Greece. The conference explored themes such as the new domains and the new rationale of public law, while valuable conclusions were drawn with regard to the future developments of the field to be published in the upcoming volume of the EPLO’s publication European Review of Public Law.

Professor Sabino Cassese, Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy, was unanimously hailed as the new EGPL President, succeeding the late Sir David Williams, Chancellor of Swansea University and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 

The 2009 Annual Reunion was concluded with laudationes in honor of Professor Michel Fromont, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, France, Professor Thijmen Koopmans, former judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities and former Advocate-General at the Dutch Supreme Court, the Netherlands, and Professor Emeritus Günter Püttner, Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany.