Reseña

• Author: María Aránzazu Calzadilla Medina, Ruth Martinón Quintero
• Pages: 167-168

RESEÑA

Pablo Rivero Santana

Trainee Student Cultural Chair «Francisco Tomás y Valiente»

Universidad de La Laguna

e rst International Congress of Law of the European Union was

held from 15th to 19th March 2021, focused on e European Union and

the Objectives of Sustainable Development of the 2030 Agenda. Formally

inaugurated by Rosa María Aguilar Chinea, the Magnicent Rector of

the University of La Laguna, the Spanish institutional venue of the aca-

demic meeting. It was organized by the Law Faculty and the European

Documentation Centre of the University of La Laguna.

Up to 32 universities from dierent countries participated in the event,

being 8 of them abroad from the host country. e congress was directed

by PhD María Aránzazu Calzadilla Medina, Dean of the Law Faculty of the

University of La Laguna, and PhD Ruth Martinón Quintero, director of the

European Documentation Center. Both directors who; aer 10 annual edi-

tions Conference on European Union Law, which served as precedents for

this event, decided to go one step further and turn those former sessions

into an international congress, which is likely to turn into a future biennial

activity.

e primary issues discussed in last March 2021 International

Congress of Law of the European Union were the Objectives of Sustainable

Development, a matter of paramount relevance to the host University of

La Laguna. e whole institution has endeavored to promote the so-called

Agenda 2030 among its academic community. Furthermore, it has commi-

tted itself to environmental sustainability, as well as to social, political and

scientic improvements.