Kenneth Armstrong: Brexit and the Autonomy of EU Law: Causes and Consequences (CELS 25th Anniversary)
Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On 15th September 2017, the Centre for European Legal Studies held a conference to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Centre. The conference, entitled "The Past, Present and Future of European Legal Studies" brought EU legal academics together, many of them former members or Directors, to discuss the future direction of EU legal research.
Programme:
- Albertina Albors-Llorens: Welcome and Introduction
- Bill Cornish: Gearing up for a CELS
- Alan Dashwood: CELS at the end of the European Communities's Golden Age
- John Bell: The Changing Character of Comparative Law
- John Spencer: Europe and Criminal Justice
- Catherine Barnard: Cloudy with a Chance of Albondigas (not recorded)
- Kenneth Armstrong: Brexit and the Autonomy of EU Law: Causes and Consequences
- Richard Fentiman: Concluding Remarks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you, first of all, to Albertina for bringing us all together today and for organising such a wonderful event. |
| 0:12.3 | It is a difficult time, I think, for all of us, and I think I was very struck by what Catherine's has just said. |
| 0:23.6 | There is a sense, I think, for many of us. |
| 0:26.6 | I mean, I think we feel this very personally, what has happened to the UK, and we are |
| 0:31.6 | trying to work our own ways through where we all feel about it and where we will all end up. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm still doing the job of being director of sales. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm about to start the fifth of my five-year mandate. |
| 0:52.3 | And I just want to say very bluntly to Catherine, I think you're wrong. |
| 0:57.4 | When you say that you feel that you failed, I would not have been able to do the job that I have |
| 1:03.1 | done in the four years that I've been director of cells without all the hard work that you |
| 1:10.0 | and every other director who's spoken today has done to |
| 1:14.0 | make sales the enormous success that it is and I think it is because of that success that while |
| 1:21.5 | Brexit is a challenge it is a challenge that as you rightly say we need to meet and address and in the sense I think |
| 1:34.1 | there is a wonderful wisdom in calling the centre the centre for European legal studies |
| 1:41.5 | and it's that notion of European legal studies that I think is what we need to hold on to. |
| 1:48.0 | That is to say that it's not a European Union Centre. |
| 1:51.0 | While it may have been important, and this will be the theme of my substantive remarks, |
| 1:57.0 | European Legal Studies is, and ought to to be a pluralist concept. |
| 2:02.7 | It is about understanding law in its European context at multiple levels, |
| 2:08.8 | the national comparative level that John Bell spoke about, |
| 2:13.4 | European Union level, but also the international level. |
| 2:19.7 | And I think what is clear is that whatever happens with the UK, all of these are in play. All of these sources of law, normativity, legality |
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