Léo Gargne

Institution: Tilburg University Law School

Period of stay: 22 April - 28 June 2024

Contact: l.gargne@tilburguniversity.edu

https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/persons/l%C3%A9o-gargne

Profile: 

Léo Gargne is a PhD Candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Tilburg Law School, Léo interned in the international arbitration and litigation department of law firms in Paris as well as at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He studied law at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (Licence en droit, 2015 with an exchange to Strathclyde University), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Masters in International Business Law, 2016 and Global Business Law and Governance, 2017), City University of Hong Kong (LL.M., 2017), and Boston College (LL.M. in Business and Commercial Law, 2018). Léo is also admitted to the New York Bar.

Research Area:

International Economic Law, Public International Law, EU Law, Free Trade Agreements, Sustainable Development

Research Title:

The Inclusion of Sustainability Provisions in Modern EU Preferential Trade Agreements and their Enforcement: A Legal Analysis

Research Outline:

In the EU, the faltering prospects of introducing new policy areas and further liberalization commitments at a multilateral level have arguably supplied the main impetus to the negotiation and conclusion of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Since then, it has been the EU’s stated ambition to include the promotion of sustainable development as an integral part of its international trade policy, most notably through its international trade agreements. Ever since the 2011 EU-Korea FTA, the EU has consistently included a Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapter in its FTAs – be it with Vietnam, Peru and Colombia, Canada, Singapore, Japan, etc. – and intends to carry on this practice, as evidenced by the trade agreements that are currently under negotiation or modernization. My doctoral research aims to analyze the legal provisions contained in those chapters as well as assess the effectiveness of the implementation and enforcement apparatus utilized to ensure their proper application.

Publications:

Panagiotis Delimatsis and Léo Gargne, ‘Article XIV GATS: General exceptions’ in Patrick Abel (ed), Trade in Services (Brill Nijhoff 2023) 405-462.

Dylan Geraets and Léo Gargne, 'Sovereignty and security: constraints on foreign investment control arising from international law' (2022) 15(4) Erasmus Law Review 311-326.

Léo Gargne, ‘Sustainable development in Preferential Trade Agreements’ in Panagiotis Delimatsis and Leonie Reins (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law - Volume X: Trade and Environmental Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) 468-479.

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