TELP#010: President Egils Levits, Republic of Latvia, president 2019 to 2023

In today's episode, I have the honour to talk to
president Egils Levits. Only to mention a few
highlights of his career, president Levits was Judge at the
European Court of Human Rights from 1995 to 2004, Judge at the
European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019 and President of the
Republic of Latvia from 2019 to 2023. In this final episode of
the first season of “The energy law podcast” we are zooming out
again from the in-depth discussions of different parts of energy
law, talking about the geopolitical changes after Russia`s
invasion of Ukraine that also effected global and European energy
markets. With President Levits, I am going to discuss the role of
courts in transitions, also exploring the concept of judicial
activism. Please enjoy this episode!



The interview took place on 1 June 2024.



Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT):
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/law/departments/tilt




Max Baumgart:
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-baumgart



LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxbaumgart/



This first season of “The Energy Law Podcast” was made possible
with funds of the Dutch Starter Grant program, awarded by Tilburg
University for Max Baumgart`s project “Transformation processes
in European and national economic law: Energy law as law of
socio-technical change”. A special thanks for production support
goes out to Marc Ohrendorf from “Irgendwas mit Recht”.