Borderlines

Episode #17 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Advocate General Laila Medina interviewed by Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). Before her appointment to the European Union Court of Justice in 2021, Advocate General Medina served in multifaceted academic and government roles and represented Latvia at the EU, OECD, and UN levels. In this interview, she discusses Latvia’s journey t...

Episode #16 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Niilo Jääskinen in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Professor Mark Pollack (Temple). Judge Jääskinen first joined the Court of Justice as Advocate General from 2009 to 2015. After returning to the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland from 2015 to 2019, Judge Jääskinen was nominated and appointed as a Judge a...

Episode #15 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Advocate General Anthony Michael Collins in conversation with Professor Mark Pollack  (Temple University). Appointed by the Member States as Advocate General to the Court of Justice in 2021, where he served in that role until 2024, Advocate General Collins’s career also includes work as a référendaire at the Court of Justice, as a judge...

Episode #14 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Eugene Regan in conversation with Professor  Katerina Linos . Judge Regan has served at the Court of Justice since October 2015, following a distinguished career in agricultural policy and as a Barrister in Dubin and member of the Irish Senate . In the interview, Judge Regan shares insights into the impacts of the United Kingdom’s...

Episode #13 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Advocate General Juliane Kokott in conversation with Professor  Katerina Linos (Berkeley Law) and Professor Mark Pollack  (Temple University). Appointed to the Court of Justice in 2003 after a prolific and distinguished academic and professional career, Advocate General Kokott has delivered nearly 700 case opinions as of this episo...

Episode #12 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Advocate General Nicholas Emiliou joining Professor Mark Pollack (Temple) in conversation. Advocate General Emiliou was appointed as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union in October 2021, following a long and illustrious academic and diplomatic career. In this episode, Advocate General Emiliou reflects on his deci...

Episode #11 of the Borderlines CJEU series features Judge Siniša Rodin in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley). Appointed as a Judge at the Court of Justice in 2013, Judge Rodin discusses his remarkable career, ranging from becoming a distinguished Professor of EU law at the University of Zagreb to serving as a member of Croatia’s Constitutional Amendment Committee. Intertwined wi...

Episode 36 of Borderlines brings former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou into dialogue with host Professor Katerina Linos , to share visionary insights about authoritarian threats undermining global democracy and citizen-centered solutions. Currently serving as Rapporteur for Democracy at the Council of Europe , Mr. Papandreou discusses his storied family of leaders in Greece and the United...

Episode #10 of the Borderlines CJEU series features Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour in conversation with Professor Mark Pollack (Temple). Advocate General Richard de la Tour was appointed to the French advocate-general seat at the Court of Justice in March 2020 and reappointed in 2024. In this episode, listeners will learn about the rigorous process of appointment to the CJEU and the uniq...

Episode #9 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Octavia Spineanu-Matei in conversation with Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). Judge Spineanu-Matei was appointed to the Court of Justice in 2021, after serving since 2016 as a Judge on the General Court. Judge Spineanu-Matei previously served as a justice in the Romanian judiciary for over 25 years. Judge Spineanu-Matei discus...

Episode #8 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Constantinos Lycourgos in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley). Appointed as a Judge at the Court of Justice in 2014, Judge Lycourgos has served as President of Chamber there since October 2021. His interview highlights major points in Cyprus’s history and entry into the EU, the roles played by the Judge Rapporteur and...

Episode #7 of the  Borderlines CJEU Series  features Judge  Lucia Serena Rossi  in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos. Upon her nomination by Italy, Judge Rossi served at the CJEU from October 2018 until October 2024, and brought extensive expertise in EU law to the role. She notably served as President of the 8th Chamber from 2020 to 2021 and the 9th Chamber from 2022...

Episode #6 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Judge Ineta Ziemele in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (UC Berkeley Law), with additional commentary by Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). Judge Ziemele was appointed as a judge at the Court of Justice (ECJ) in October 2020, a position she has held since then. Her previous service as a judge and President of Chamber a...

Berkeley Law’s  Borderlines  podcast host, Professor  Katerina Linos , and guest co-host, Professor  Mark Pollack  (Temple University), conduct a  special interview series profiling Judges and Advocates General  serving at the  Court of Justice of the European Union  (CJEU) in Luxembourg. Episode #5 features  CJEU  Advocate General Tamara Ćape...

Episode 29 of Borderlines features distinguished scholar Professor Curt Bradley (Chicago) discussing his new book, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2024). Berkeley Law professor and Borderlines guest host Elena Chachko brings her foreign relations and administrative law background to guide this fascinating interview.   In th...

Berkeley Law’s Borderlines podcast host, Professor Katerina Linos , and guest co-host, Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University), conduct a special interview series profiling Judges and Advocates General serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.   Episode #4 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Vice President Lars Bay Larsen of Denmark. Vice Presiden...

Episode #3 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU Vice President Thomas von Danwitz in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). Vice President von Danwitz has been a Judge at the Court of Justice since his nomination by Germany in 2006. Elected as President of Chamber by fellow Judges, he sat at the Court in that function between O...

Episode #2 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features CJEU President Koen Lenaerts in conversation with Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University). President Lenaerts has been re-elected to the Court’s top office by his peers three times since 2015, having served tirelessly since his nomination to the CJEU in 2003 by home country of Belgium. His interview trace...

Episode #1 of the Borderlines CJEU Series features UC Berkeley Law School’s Dean and Choper Distinguished Professor Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation with Tragen Professor Katerina Linos (Berkeley) and Freaney Professor Mark Pollack (Temple University), introducing a wider audience to the European Union Court of Justice . Dean Chemerinsky is one of the world’s top legal scholars , with decades of...

Episode 24 of Borderlines features a rare look behind the scenes at the International Court of Justice with The Honorable Joan Donoghue (’81), recently retired president of the ICJ , in candid conversation with host Professor Katerina Linos . They discuss ongoing disputes, including South Africa v. Israel and the Chagos Archipelago advisory proceeding; key Court functions, such as provisional meas...

Episode 23 of Borderlines features our guest host, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law Laurel E. Fletcher (Berkeley), in conversation with Professor of Practice Gabor Rona (Cardozo) on the Israel/Hamas conflict from an international law perspective. Fresh off of speaking at Berkeley Law on 22 February 2024 as part of a Bay Area campus lecture series on the crisis, Professor Rona sat down with P...

Host Professor Katerina Linos talks with three international law scholars on sanctions and their role in comparative perspective. Berkeley Law Professor Elena Chachko joins Professor Luis M. Hinojosa-Martínez and Professor Carmela Pérez-Bernárdez from the Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Granada, Spain, for a frank look at international sancti...

Episode 21 of Borderlines features the president of the International Criminal Court , Judge Piotr Hofmański, sharing his unique perspective with host Katerina Linos , on the ICC’s role and mandate over twenty years since its historic founding in 2002. Elected an ICC judge in 2015 and voted president by his peers in 2021, President Hofmański guides listeners through the Court’s key responsibilitie...

Fourth in a four-part series of special Borderlines episodes with UC Berkeley Law guest hosts Professor Roxanna Altholz and Professor Laurel E. Fletcher shining a spotlight on human rights champions—all guest speakers in their Human Rights Practice Workshop course, where leading practitioners working in a variety of institutional settings share their struggles against corruption and impunity, the...

Third in a four-part series of special Borderlines episodes with UC Berkeley Law guest hosts Professor Roxanna Altholz and Professor Laurel E. Fletcher shining a spotlight on human rights champions—all guest speakers in their Human Rights Practice Workshop course, where leading practitioners working in a variety of institutional settings speak about their struggles against corruption and impunity,...