The UK Regulatory Framework Post-Brexit 'Law Unbound'

The UK Regulatory Framework Post-Brexit provides a comprehensive analysis of the UK's post-Brexit regulatory framework and does so against the conceptual frame of the 'Law Unbound,' thereby reflecting an animating impulse of the Brexit campaign: to take back sovereign control over the regulatory domain. The contributors consider to what extent regulatory constraints still exist (de jure and/or de facto) and how far regulatory freedom has been exercised. They also make a qualitative assessment of the new status quo, insofar as there have been changes. The book is divided into three parts. The first part considers the institutional dimension of Brexit, with chapters on the constitution, Parliament, government, courts, devolved governments, and Northern Ireland. The second and third parts deal with the legal impact of Brexit in important areas of economic and social policy affected by withdrawal from the EU. The second part contains chapters dealing with goods, services, financial services, competition, subsidies, procurement, digital and data regulation, and intellectual property. The chapters in part three cover citizens' rights, immigration, asylum and refugee law, equality, employment, healthcare, consumer law, environment, food law, and criminal law. The introduction draws together and highlights themes that emerge from the individual chapters. It begins with analysis of the institutional dimension, with discussion of the pre-Brexit position, followed by constitutional, legal, and political change post-Brexit, including the territorial dimension concerning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It next examines the economic and social dimensions of Brexit, including the pre-Brexit position; post-Brexit legality, which captures the extent to which the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement impose constraints; and the reality of post-Brexit regulation. The introduction provides analytical tools to help navigate the terrain, distinguishing between active divergence, passive divergence, inactive divergence, and continued convergence. This is complemented by consideration of the institutional and territorial aspects of post-Brexit regulation.

1 - Regulation Post-Brexit: Law Unbound
2 - The UK Constitution
3 - Parliament
4 - The Executive
5 - Regulators
6 - Courts
7 - Devolved Governments
8 - Northern Ireland
9 - Goods
10 - Services
11 - Financial Services
12 - Competition
13 - Subsidies
14 - Public Procurement
15 - Digital and Data Regulation
16 - Intellectual Property
17 - Citizens Rights
18 - Immigration
19 - Asylum
20 - Equality
21 - Employment Law
22 - Healthcare
23 - Consumer Law and Policy
24 - Environmental Law
25 - Ch 25: Food Law
26 - Criminal Law

Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford. He was elected to a Fellowship in law at Worcester College, Oxford in 1976, becoming a Reader in law in 1990 and an ad hominem Professor in 1996. He was then Professor of English Law at St John's College, Oxford in 1998 until 2018. In 1998, he was a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2000, he was appointed as an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, and a QC (Honoris Causa). He was a UK representative on the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy for 10 years. His research interests cover Constitutional law, Administrative law, Comparative Administrative law and EU law. Vilija Velyvyte is a Lecturer in EU Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, she also held lectureships in EU Law and Constitutional Law, was part of the teaching team for the Regulation of the Internal Market course on the BCL/MJur programme, and led seminars in Law and Public Policy for the MPP degree at the Blavatnik School of Government. Prior to that, Vilija was Emile Noël Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law. Vilija holds a DPhil in EU Law, Magister Juris (Distinction) and MPhil in Law degrees from the University of Oxford, all three supported by the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship.