Legal Aspects of Brexit: Implications of the United Kingdom's Decision to Withdraw from the European Union

In Legal Aspects of Brexit, Georgetown Law professors Jennifer Hillman and Gary Horlick present an overview of many of the legal issues raised by the United Kingdom's (UK's) decision to withdraw from membership in the EU, with a particular focus on international trade issues. The book is drawn from a first-of-its-kind seminar taught in the fall of 2016 at Georgetown Law. Legal Aspects of Brexit presents an introductory summary of legal issues raised by Brexit followed by the papers written by the students in the seminar covering a wide array of Brexit dilemmas, ranging from the implications for the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, to the potential for investor-state disputes, to the status of EU trade agreements with Canada, Korea and the East African Community, to implications for the World Trade Organization (WTO), to Brexit's effect on everything from human rights, to data privacy, to geographical indications, to Scotland, to financial services, to the English Premier League soccer player and more. Each paper explores what EU law, if any, would remain in place in a post-Brexit UK and what the UK can or should do to fill any holes created in their legal framework, along with an analysis of any new or different obligations placed on the EU or its institutions in a post-Brexit world. The book also contains an extensive roadmap to the many sources of information and analysis about Brexit and its implications for the UK, the EU and the rest of the world.