Professorial Lecture: Decolonising EU Law - Towards a Wiser and Wider European Union

A decolonial approach offers an exciting opportunity to highlight and disrupt euro-centrism in EU law in the past, present and future. As well as excavating the life and legacy of coloniality, a decolonial approach to research and teaching in EU law contributes principles and practices to create the foundation for a wider and wiser EU.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Iyiola Solanke is Jacques Delors Professor of European Union Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She was previously Professor of European Union Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds Law School and the Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the University. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai’i School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law and Harvard University School of Public Health.  Professor Solanke is a former Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. She is an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple and a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust.