The panel explores the relationship between law, regulation and justice as to Brexit, at national and international level as a question of socio-legal and critical legal studies. Whose justice is affected by Brexit? How is a ‘just‘ Brexit to be evaluated? What are objective analytical tools for evaluating significant shifts in regulatory orders and structures?...
Brexit, Migration and Politics of Fear
On face value, the EU referendum concerned whether the UK chose to remain within or chose to leave the EU. Despite the choice to leave the EU, a major political fault line emerged between the ‘remainers‘ and the ‘leavers‘ that continues to dominate political life in the UK. The campaigns conducted by the two camps...
From ‘Old Wounds‘ to Constitutional Uncertainty – Addressing the Impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland
The impact of the UK‘s exit from the EU – Brexit – is likely to be felt in Northern Ireland in a unique way. The Good Friday Agreement, ending the decades-long ‘Troubles‘ era, is presaged on mutual recognition of standards and free movement of goods, people and services between Northern Ireland (as part of the...
Human rights protection as justice in post-Brexit Britain
The paper explores how human rights protection is overlooked amongst the chaos that has befallen the UK in its complicated process of negotiating an exit from the EU. The protection of these rights has garnered attention, mostly because of the UK‘s past behaviour towards accepting European human rights in its own domestic regime. There has...
The Common Law‘s Challenge: Employment Law & Brexit
‘Global Britain‘ carries ominous or optimistic tones when considering UK employment law and policy after ‘leaving‘ the EU. This presentation assesses the role of the common law in a ‘Global Britain‘ (using the works of Bogg, Cabrelli, Collins and Countouris). Attention will be given to the country‘s history of labour relations (such as the critical...
The Tripartite Implications of Brexit: Framing Law, Regulation & Justice
This paper considers the implications of Brexit as an interplay of law, regulation and justice, using a tripartite conceptualisation. First, as an EU Member State, the UK has been involved in EU law-making as EU ‘rule-maker‘. However, within this first conceptualisation, in many instances, existing EU rules entrenched into domestic law will continue to apply,...