Monday 26 November 2018

Uncertainty and legal institutions: The impact of the Brexit vote on EU law application in the UK

a column by Arthur Dyevre, Monika Glavina, Nicolas Lampach, Michal Ovádek and Wessel Wijtvliet for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Twenty-eight months after the Brexit referendum, EU laws, regulations, and doctrines continue to apply to UK residents and state officials.

This column shows that UK judges and litigants have already started to move away from EU law in anticipation of Brexit, with judges submitting 22–23% fewer questions to the European Court of Justice since the referendum. The broader lesson for the future of supranational legal systems is that effective disintegration may precede formal withdrawal, or may occur even if formal withdrawal is delayed or does not come about.

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