Professor Steve Peers, University of EssexIntroductionOne of the more contentious issues in the Brexit withdrawal agreement is dispute settlement, in particular whether the
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) still retains jurisdiction regarding the UK. [...]
Conference “Harmonisation in Environmental and Energy Law” University of Hasselt, 28-29 March 2019. (Prolonged) deadline for abstract submissions: 23 December 2018. Michigan
Law School Fifth Annual Junior Scholars Conference [...]
Ronan McCrea, Professor of Constitutional and European Law, University College LondonThe CJEU rulingin the Wightman case (discussed here) has provided important additional
information in relation to the Brexit process. The Court accepted arguments first madeby Piet Eeckhout and Eleni Frantziou that notification of an intention to withdraw [...]
Alan S. Reid, Senior Lecturer in Law, Sheffield Hallam University. The author welcomes comments on the blog at a.s.reid@shu.ac.uk.The modern concept of Devolution in the United
Kingdom was devised, created and implemented in the general context and expectation of continued UK membership of the European Union. [...]
Peter Oliver, Barrister, Monckton Chambers; Visiting Professor, Université Libre de BruxellesJuliet famously asked: “Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?” And then
adds: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Having an unfortunate name (like Montague, if you have the misfortune [...]
By Benedikt Pirker All eyes were on the Wightman case in recent days. This may have somewhat overshadowed a second interesting development: On Friday 7 December the Swiss government
(the Federal Council) decided to publish the result of its negotiations with the European Union on a Framework Agreement (FA) for their bilateral relationship. [...]
By Oliver Garner This piece is cross-posted by kind permission of the DCU Brexit Institute blog. The original version of the post may be accessed here. Introduction On 10 December
2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in the Wightman case on the revocation of a notification of an intention to withdraw from the EU [...]
Pauline Melin, PhD, Lecturer in European Law (Maastricht University) and Researcher at the Institute for European Law (KULeuven)Today, the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly
and Regular Migration is meant to be approved by an intergovernmental conference in Marrakesh with the purpose to be adopted on the 19th December 2018 as a Resolution [...]
Professor Steve Peers, University of EssexToday’s Full Court judgmentin the Wightman case confirms that the UK can unilaterally withdraw its notification that it intends
to leave the EU, on the most generous possible terms. It broadly follows last week’s non-binding opinion from an Advocate-General, discussed here. [...]
Professor Steve Peers, University of EssexIntroductionThe UK after Brexit won’t be a Mad Max dystopia, according to a former Brexit Secretary. Or will it? The reality is
likely to fall somewhere in between the unicorn-powered ‘sunlit uplands’ fantasised by Brexit’s staunchest supporters, and the zombie-infested unlit wastelands [...]
