Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, is the holder of the 2023-2024 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles. As part of this Chair, on Wednesday 7 February she will give a public lecture entitled “What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: EU law, free movement and… Great Yarmouth”.
Abstract
In this talk Professor Catherine Barnard will look at the growing emphasis on enforcement as part of upholding the rule of law, how free movement of persons provides a good case study of non-enforcement, and as a case study, the experiences of EU migrant workers in Great Yarmouth, a declining seaside resort with the fifth highest leave vote in the UK, where we see significant under-enforcement of employment rights in a legal aid desert. The question then is what do the workers do to get help, is it effective and are there lessons for labour enforcement more generally?
The lecture will be followed by a reception. This event is open to all, but please register via this page by 1 February at the latest. After that date, you can contact us at fwa.relations@ulb.be
More on the topic:
– Catherine Barnard et Fiona Costello, “When (EU) Migration Came to Great Yarmouth” (UK in a Changing Europe Research Paper No. 02/2023).
– Great Yarmouth – Provisional Figures, a movie by Marco Martins (2023).