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...
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Invoking the Nation in Partitioned Lands: Postcolonial Constitutions and Exclusion in Ireland and the Indian Subcontinent
The paper explores the relationship between constitutional representations of the nation and institutional design following the partitions of Ireland and the Indian subcontinent. The constitution-making processes and outcomes in Ireland 1937, India 1950 and Pakistan 1956, together with the Northern Ireland Act 1998, reveal the constitutional centrality of claims to nationhood that extend beyond state...