'What is EU Relations Law? The Legal Ecosystem of Brexit': Monckton-CELS webinar (audio)

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is of immense political and economic significance. But it also amounts to a legal transformation both internally within the UK and externally in the UK’s relationship with the EU and other countries. A complex legal ecosystem is emerging that draws upon EU law, international law, UK and devolved law in fashioning a set of rules and principles that manage the phenomenon of Brexit. The aim of this webinar is to introduce the salient and novel features of this body of law that we term “EU Relations Law”. Chair: Professor Kenneth Armstrong - University of Cambridge Speaker 1: Jack Williams – Monckton Chambers: 'What is EU Relations Law?' Speaker 2: George Peretz QC - Monckton Chambers: 'Key Aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland' Speaker 3: Professor Alison Young - University of Cambridge: 'Key Aspects of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020' Speaker 4: Professor Kenneth Armstrong – University of Cambridge: 'The Future Relationship – What Type of Agreement (if any?)' For more details and other events see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes.

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0:00.0	So welcome at Bredite to the first in this new series of webinars being organized jointly between
0:10.0	Mountain Chambers and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.
0:15.0	I'm Kenneth Armstrong and Professor European Law Cambridge and I'll be chairing today's event.
0:20.0	Now this initiative has grown from the work
0:22.9	that Jack Williams has done in launching EU relations law as a field of study, and that includes the
0:30.4	EU relations law blog that he edits, and where you will find detailed legal analysis of many of the issues we hope to cover
0:39.0	in these webinars.
0:40.9	And Jack will be kicking things off in a moment.
0:44.6	Now, today we are introducing the concept of EU relations law in the webinars.
0:49.9	And in the webinars that will follow, we will explore issues relating to enforcement, to dispute resolution, to internal and external trade issues, and also some competition aspects as well.
1:03.7	So today we are joined by two lawyers with huge reputations in the field.
1:08.6	George Perrits, QC, from Moncton, will explore some key issues around
1:12.8	about the withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland Protocol. And my Cambridge colleague,
1:16.9	Professor Alison Young, will highlight significant aspects of the UK's Brexit legislation.
1:22.9	And I'll say something at the end about the future relationship. Now we have a Q&A function for these
1:29.3	webinars where you can put in some questions that we hope to try and get back to towards the
1:34.3	end of the webinar. But let me first of all hand over to Jack Williams, who's going to frame
1:39.3	today's discussion. So over to you, Jack. Thank you, Kenneth. The UK's withdrawal from the EU amounts to obviously a
1:47.9	seismic legal transformation. There's new and a very complex legal ecosystem developing with new sources of law,
1:55.6	new substantive law itself and new institutions and enforcement bodies. This new ecosystem draws on EU law,
2:03.5	international law and domestic law. So in my first 10 minutes or so, I'm going to outline
2:09.4	the framework of this new body of law that we call EU relations law concerning the UK's
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