AMBSL-Forum: Alastair Sutton, January 11, 2018
11 December 2018, by Elisabeth Kahnert
Dear Sir or Madam, dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming AMBSL-Forum lecture on January 11, 2018. It will take place in room A131 of the faculty of law (Rothenbaumchaussee 33, 20148) and on this occassion
Mr Alastair Sutton, LL.M.
will deliver a speech on
Negotiating Brexit: The Legal Landscape.
Alastair Sutton is an English barrister who has been immersed in European law and politics as an official of the European Commission and private practitioner for 42 years. Mr. Sutton served the European Commission between 1973 and 1989 as a trade negotiator, a diplomat in the Commission’s Delegation in Tokyo, a legal advisor to the commission vice president for the Internal Market, and head of Division for Insurance. From 1989 to 2010, Mr. Sutton was a partner in the firms of Forrester, Norall, and Sutton and White and Case. He is now a member of Brick Court Chambers, practicing European law in Brussels and London. His current practice concentrates extensively on the legal, political and economic aspects of the UK’s proposed withdrawal from the EU (“Brexit”), on which Mr. Sutton has spoken at conferences in the UK, the United States, Japan, Sweden and a number of other EU and EFTA Member States.