Escaping the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is not just one of the goals professed in the White Paper on exiting the EU – it most likely qualifies as one of the Prime Minister’s red lines for any so-called “Brexit Deal”, … Continue reading
Professor Schiek was quoted in “Le Monde” on the basis of the CETLS/TREUP occasional paper “Hard Brexit“. She explained that, … Continue reading
In this TREUP/CETLS occasional paper, Prof. Dagmar Schiek provides some suggestions on how to maintain an all-island perspective for Ireland after “Hard Brexit”. … Continue reading
The School of Law at QUB, together with the Centre for Transnational and European Studies, hosted a round-table discussion forum about the “Brexit” decisions of the UK Supreme Court, released on Tuesday, 24th January, concerning the constitutional requirements to trigger Art. 50 TEU.
Café Europa, a new JMCE/TREUP initiative providing a forum for debating research and practice on law & policy in the European Union, was launched on 15 December. The topic of this first edition was “What does ‘Brexit’ mean for higher education and academics?”. … Continue reading
Professor Dagmar Schiek, of JMCE “Tensions at the Fringes of the European Union”, was called to give evidence in the Inquiry on the future of the land border in Ireland after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. She stressed that from legal perspectives borders are composed of rights to access territory and the authority to control … Continue reading
Starting a debate on what litigating on how to start “BREXIT” means from NI, UK and EU law perspectives, this panel discussed the rulings by the High Courts in Northern Ireland (McCord, Re Judicial) and England and Wales (in R (Miller) v Secretary of State). A report of this event can be found here.
TREUP invites blog contributions to its web page by any interested party. We aim at short pieces (500 – 800 words) related to the themes of our action: We aim to generate knowledge and promote critical debate by observing tensions between EU law & policy on the one hand and social, ecological and economic justice on the other hand. We believe that observing from the fringes of the EU – Ireland (NI and RoI) – allows us to perceive tensions more accurately. Contact: treup@qub.ac.uk or s.clavero@qub.ac.uk
The videos from the “Northern Ireland at the Edge – what next after “BREXIT”?” conference are now available. … Continue reading