Conference Report : The United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the European Union (?) Domestic and European Constitutional Implications

Jack, Douglas (2019) Conference Report : The United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the European Union (?) Domestic and European Constitutional Implications. ICON-S | The International Society of Public Law, New York. (https://www.icon-society.org/wp-content/uploads/20...)

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Abstract

On the 24th -25th April 2019, constitutional experts from across the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and beyond gathered at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow for the second annual conference of the International Society of Public Law – British-Irish Chapter. In her introductory remarks, Aileen McHarg, Professor of Public Law at the host university, noted the profound and far-reaching questions that the UK’s proposed withdrawal from the European Union had engendered, including, of course, the question of whether withdrawal would occur at all, highlighted by the placement of a strategic question mark in the conference theme. It was this sense of volatility that would be returned to by many participants throughout the two days.