Gunnar Beck: EU citizens’ rights after Brexit: The EU’s extravagant demands for extra-territorial jurisdiction by the CJEU and reverse discrimination

Gunnar Beck: EU citizens’ rights after Brexit: The EU’s extravagant demands for extra-territorial jurisdiction by the CJEU and reverse discrimination

Download pdf The tremors caused by the general election are still working their way through the political system. The implications for the nature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU have been the subject of much speculation. Before too long, however, the...
Launch of the Admin Law Blog

Launch of the Admin Law Blog

We are happy to welcome the Admin Law Blog and wish it every success. Here is the announcement: The Admin Law Blog is a forum for the discussion of ideas and developments of interest to scholars of administrative law across the common law world. It aims to connect...
Christopher Forsyth: Questioning the Legal Establishment

Christopher Forsyth: Questioning the Legal Establishment

“greater assertiveness overall is consistent with the less deferential approach towards authority taken by today’s judges, who grew to maturity in the intellectual climate of the Sixties and Seventies and who therefore feel less hidebound by tradition than their...
Miller Supreme Court Judgment: Expert Reactions

Miller Supreme Court Judgment: Expert Reactions

Editor’s Note: Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project invited leading academics and practitioners to offer short comments on the Supreme Court’s decision on Article 50 in R(Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU. We sought contributions from...
Supreme Court has ‘fumbled the law’

Supreme Court has ‘fumbled the law’

This is a very disappointing decision which is not justified by long-standing legal principle. The claim should have failed. It is encouraging that at least some Justices saw through the claimant’s strained legal arguments. The High Court mishandled the relevant law,...
What the JCHR Gets Wrong about Fundamental Rights

What the JCHR Gets Wrong about Fundamental Rights

Download pdf Gunnar Beck, 1 Essex Court, former advisor to the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons Richard Ekins, Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Head of the Judicial Power Project John Finnis, Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford,...
Supreme Court has ‘fumbled the law’

Aileen McHarg: The Devolution Implications of the Miller Decision

Brexit and Devolution Given the complexity of the United Kingdom’s system of multi-layered governance, and the intertwining of policy competences across European, UK-wide and devolved levels, the devolved governments and legislatures necessarily have a strong interest...