Activities of the Treaties, Brexit and the Constitution Project

On the 23rd of March with the generous support of the House of Commons, the Law Faculty’s Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government and Jesus College, we convened a conference. The conference brought together lawyers and practitioners from the Houses of Parliament and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, academics and judges, and proposed practicable solutions to the problems presented by the disaggregation of Britain’s treaty obligations. 

Read the proceedings of the conference

Holger Hestermeyer, Jill Barrett, Sylvia de Mars and Brigid Fowler speaking about Parliament’s role in negotiating, concluding and implementing treaty obligations

In April, and June 2018, we submitted written evidence to the House of Lords Liaison Committee and the House of Commons International Trade Committee.

Submission to the House of Lords Liaison Committee

Submission to the House of Commons International Trade Committee

In November 2018, together with Jill Barrett, we gave oral evidence and submitted written evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee.

Submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee

On the 13th of December, we gave a House of Commons Library Talk, which draws upon a draft article on Treaties, Brexit and the Constitution.

The House of Lords Constitution Committee published its Report on Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties on the 30th of April 2019. The Report recommended that Parliament should consider establishing a committee to scrutinise treaties.