Just in Time: A New Volume on the Consequences of Brexit
Following the United Kingdom’s popular vote to exit the European Union, a very timely book on the various legal, political and economic impacts of Brexit has just been released: “Britain Alone! The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU” (Kluwer Law International 2016), edited by Professor Patrick Birkinshaw (Institute of European Public Law, University of Hull) and Professor Andrea Biondi (King’s College London), covers practical topics such as the options available to the UK, the effects of Brexit on the constitutional level, the existing and potential role of jurisprudence, post-Brexit residence and labour rights as well as financial and economic governance.
The table of contents reads as follows:
Introduction
Patrick Birkinshaw & Andrea Biondi.
Part I Constitutional Issues
CHAPTER 1 Britain Alone Constitutionally: Brexit and Restitutio in Integrum
Patrick Birkinshaw & Mike Varney.
CHAPTER 2 A Tale of Two Referendums: Scotland, the UK and Europe
Stephen Tierney & Katie Boyle.
CHAPTER 3 ‘Britain Alone’: A View from Northern Ireland
Gordon Anthony.
CHAPTER 4 ‘Brexit’ and Welsh Devolution: The Likely Impact
Mike Varney.
CHAPTER 5 Responsibility, Voice and Exit: Britain Alone?
Paul Craig.
Part II Managing Alone?
CHAPTER 6 Which Options would Be Available for the United Kingdom in the Case of a Withdrawal from the EU?
Jean-Claude Piris.
CHAPTER 7 The UK and the World: Environmental Law
Ioanna Hadjiyianni.
CHAPTER 8 The EU’s External Relations: A Question of Competence
Daniel Denman.
CHAPTER 9 Judicial Protection and the UK’s Opt-Outs: Is Britain Alone in the CJEU?
Maria Kendrick.
CHAPTER 10 Criminal Law
John R. Spencer.
CHAPTER 11 From EU Citizens to Third-Country Nationals: The Legacy of Polydor
Marja-Liisa Öberg.
CHAPTER 12 Britain Alone! The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the European Union: Social Policies
Aileen McColgan.
CHAPTER 13 The Death of Social Europe
Keith D. Ewing.
CHAPTER 14 The United Kingdom without the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Putting Down the Dog That Did Not Bark?
Kieron Beal QC.
CHAPTER 15 State Aid Control, Government Spending and the Virtue of Loyalty
Andrea Biondi.
CHAPTER 16 Differentiated Integration and the Single Supervisory Mechanism: Which Way Forward for the European Banking Authority?
Pierre Schammo.
For further information, please see the publisher’s website.