Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom Constitutions Under Pressure

Since the 1950s, European integration has included ever more countries with ever-softening borders between them. In its apparent reversal of integration and its recreation of borders, Brexit intensifies deep-seated tensions, both institutional and territorial, within and between the constitutional orders of the United Kingdom and Ireland. In this book, leading scholars from the UK and Ireland assess the pressures exerted by Brexit, from legal, historical, and political perspectives. This book explores the territorial pressures within the UK constitution, connecting them to the status of Northern Ireland before exploring how analogous territorial pressures might be addressed in a united Ireland. The book also critically analyses the Brexit process within the UK, drawing on Irish comparative examples, to assess unresolved tensions between popular mandate, legislative democracy, and executive responsibility. Through practical application, this book explores how constitutions function under the most intense political pressures.

Summary

This book examines the challenges of Brexit for the legal and political landscape in the UK and in Ireland and for the relationship between the two countries. It will appeal to anyone wishing to inform themselves more deeply about the political and constitutional pressures exerted by Brexit.

Product details

• Authors: Oran (Trinity College Dublin) Mcharg Doyle
• Assisted by: Oran Doyle (Editor), Aileen Mcharg (Editor), Jo Murkens (Editor), Doyle Oran (Editor), McHarg Aileen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2023
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781108965880
• ISBN: 978-1-108-96588-0
• Pages: 352
• Subjects: European History, LAW / Constitutional, Ireland, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Legislation, Politics and government, EU (European Union), International institutions, Constitution: government & the state, EU & European institutions, Constitution: government and the state, United Nations & Un Agencies, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Sources of law: legislation