The UK’s relationship with European regionalism has always been controversial and multifaceted. Taking the UK’s relationship with the EU as well as the European human rights system of the ECHR as examples, one can argue that it is the UK’s peculiar uncodified constitution that has been a central cause for friction. The results of this friction are clear: On 23 June, 2016, a small majority of the British electorate voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. Furthermore, future domestic human rights reforms may trigger a British withdrawal from the Council of Europe. In both cases, the UK would be the first country to permanently withdraw from these postwar structures of regional cooperation. This article aims to highlight key domestic constitutional factors, which prompted a key player of European regionalism to question its own place in such a system. The British case study raises important questions especially for future architects of regional judicial cooperation, and thus may be relevant for current efforts in other regions such as Asia.
목차
Abstracts I. Introduction II. The UK and European regionalism 1. The EU: European economic, political and legal integration 2. The ECHR: European regional human rights protection III. Constitutional seeds for EU-Brexit 1. Legal origins: The European Communities Act 1972 2. Legal Developments: Factortame and the European Union Act 2011 IV. Constitutional discomfort with the ECHR 1. Problem: The lack of domestic constitutional rights review 2. The Human Rights Act 1998: A failed solution? V. Conclusion: Lessons for regional legal cooperation elsewhere?
저자
Fabian Duessel [ Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law, University of Tuebingen, Germany. ]
동국대학교 비교법문화연구원 [The Institute of Comparative Law and Legal Culture]
설립연도
2000
분야
사회과학>법학
소개
본 연구소에서는 세계 각국의 새로운 법률제도를 그때그때 입수하여 이를 소개하고 한국 실정에 접목가능성을 연구·분석한다. 아울러 본 연구소는 국내의 각종 학술단체, 연구소, 연구기관과의 교류를 증진함은 물론 외국대학의 연구소와 공동연구를 통해 외국의 법문화와 학풍을 소개함으로써 대외적인 학풍선양에도 기여하게 함을 목적으로 한다.