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. [...]
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 [...]
Professor Steve Peers, University of Essex*Having resisted unilateral guarantees for EU27 citizens in the UK for over two years, and having promised to protect EU27 citizens
unilaterally after all back in September, the UK government finally produced a papertoday on what happens to EU27 citizens in the UK – and UK citizens in the EU27 [...]
Professor Steve Peers, University of EssexIntroduction Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to change your
mind after jumping? Or was it rather like setting off to the shops, where you can change your mind about shopping while on the way there, in the car park, or even [...]
Im gerade erschienenen Heft 2/2018 der Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien sind zwei Beiträge von Angehörigen des Jean-Monnet-Lehrstuhls veröffentlicht worden. Zunächst
hat Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich „Die Verflechtungsfalle des Europawahlrechts: Nationale Ratifikationen des geänderten EU-Direktwahlakts mit obligatorischer [...]
Professor Steve Peers, University of Essex*Introduction The EU General Court today gave its judgment in the case of Shindler and others, on the legality of the EU Council decisiongiving
the EU Commission a mandate to negotiate the Brexit withdrawal agreement with the UK. [...]
