The European Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe is delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Laurence W. GORMLEY on Wednesday, 12 November 2025, for an Honorary Lecture on “Some Finished and Unfinished Business in the Free Movement of Goods”.
The lecture is open to all students, staff, EUDA/EUDP participants, and external guests. No registration is required for this event.
Livestream: External participants are also welcome to join virtually via the following link: Honorary Lecture with Prof. Dr. Laurence W. Gormley - livestream
About the Speaker
Prof. Dr. Laurence W. GORMLEY has taught in the Law Department at the College in Bruges since 2004 (having previously taught in Bruges and then at Natolin 1993-1999 on the PECO programme).
After graduating from Oxford and the London School of Economics, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Middle Temple, and was its first Hon. Sir Peter Bristow Scholar in 1978, and held a Rotary Foundation Fellowship at the Europa Institute at Utrecht University, where he took his doctorate in 1985.
After having been a Lecturer in Law at Liverpool and then an official of the European Commission, he was appointed to the Chair of European Law at the University of Groningen in 1990; in 1995, he was also awarded a Jean Monnet Chair, and from 1999, he headed the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Groningen. He became Emeritus in November 2019 and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
His principal publications are in the field of EU Law, with the main emphasis being on the areas of the free movement of goods, customs law, public procurement, taxation, and the internal market.