Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School. She is also a Director for the European Legal Studies Center. Her research and teaching focus on European Union law, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Before joining the faculty at Columbia in 2012, she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Bradford earned her S.J.D. (2007) and LL.M. (2002) degrees from Harvard Law School and also holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki. After completing her LL.M. studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, Bradford practiced antitrust law and EU law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels for two years before returning to Harvard for her doctoral studies. She has also served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland and as an expert assistant to a member of the European Parliament.
This blog entry is based on her forthcoming book The Brussels Effect: How the EU Shapes the World through Rules and Regulations (OUP 2019).
On March 29, 2019, the United Kingdom is due to exit the European Union. This process—known as “Brexit”—was meant to be a carefully engineered exercise of unraveling the nearly 50-year old economic and political partnership that the UK has with the EU. Yet the UK is moving dangerously close to a chaotic exit as Prime…
