George Letsas

George Letsas is professor of the philosophy of law at UCL. He is the author of A Theory of Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, published by Oxford in 2009.

Brexit and the Constitution

George Letsas, 16 March 2017

The​ constitutional questions around the government’s attempt to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval have been much discussed, but the EU referendum may well have another, more serious effect on the constitution. The UK’s membership of European organisations radically changed its constitution. For more than forty years domestic courts have interpreted Acts of...

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