Conference: The Law & Politics of Brexit: Constitutional Challenges in Regional and European Perspectives

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A conference entitled ‘The Law and Politics of Brexit: Constitutional Challenges in Regional and European Perspectives’ will take place from 20–21 April at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Participation is open to the public.

Introduction

The decision by the people of the United Kingdom (UK) to vote in a referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union (EU) has produced shock-waves across Europe and the world. While the EU Treaty explicitly allows a member state to withdraw from the Union, no country thus far had ever decided to secede from what is arguably the most successful experiment in regional integration in history. Brexit, therefore, calls into question consolidated assumptions on the finality of the EU, and simultaneously opens new challenges – not only in the institutional fabric of Europe, but also in the constitutional settlements reached at the local level, e.g. in Scotland and Northern Ireland…

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