All interested welcome to attend a workshop on the legal implications of Brexit

The workshop will start with a guest lecture "The Implications of the Brexit for European Business Law" by professor Dr. Hannes Rösler.  On 28 March 2017 the United Kingdom triggered Art. 50 TFEU in order to exit the European Union. This leaves two years for negotiating and passing of a divorce agreement – a momentous task. The talk analyses the different agendas of the UK and EU. Special emphasis will be given to the issues of business law, private international law and judicial cooperation. The talks finishes with the options for the relationship of the EU with the UK and among the remaining EU-27.  Later Dr. Mel Kenny will continue with a presentation "Brexit: rien ne vas plus?" In rejecting the UK’s second application to join the then EEC in 1967, French President De Gaulle warned that opening the EEC to the UK was to enter a world of ‘artifice, delay and make-believe’, this paper asks what the implications of Brexit will be. Given the ‘winner takes all’ mindset of the ‘Brexiteers’ and English consternation at the 2017 EU Negotiating Guidelines it is questionable how far Brexit negotiations can go. Will the intractable procedural and substantive aspects of Article 50 TEU negotiations even be addressed and is the ‘hardest’ Brexit now inevitable?  About the speakers  Hannes Rösler is a professor for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Siegen, Germany since 2014. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Prior to entering the Max Planck Institute in 2004, he was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Comparative Law in Marburg and a law clerk in Frankfurt am Main. Rösler received a doctorate in 2003 for his book on European consumer law from Marburg University, where he graduated in 1998, following one year of studies at the London School of Economics. In 2004 he received a Master from Harvard Law School. Rösler finished his post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) on the European Court of Justice and European private law at the University of Hamburg in 2012. Rösler has published numerous articles on German and European private and public law in several languages. He has held interim professorships at the Universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Frankfurt an der Oder. He also held visiting positions abroad, i.a., at Oxford University, New York University, University of Cambridge, as well as universities in France, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, China and Japan. Mel Kenny is the vice rector and rector elect of the Riga Graduate School of Law since 2016. He has been a professor of EU law and director of the Centre of European Legal Studies at the Exeter Law School and a professor in Consumer and Commercial Law at the De Montfort University in Leicester. In 2001 Mel Kenny received his doctorate in law at the Bremen University in Germany. Afterwards he held several positions as lecturer at different universities and wrote several notable books and articles. The Baltic-German University Liaison Office was founded and is sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (from resources of Federal Foreign Office of Germany), the University of Latvia, the Riga Technical University and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The Office systematically supports scientific projects that are crucial to the scientific cooperation between German and Baltic scientific institutions.