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Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 receives fuel

Syria airstrikes add another ‘exception’ to beleaguered parliamentary convention, say experts

30 Apr 2018

A new book launching in Cambridge today explores the parliamentary convention intended to allow MPs a vote on military action. The authors say that...

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Listen: Cambridge experts talk post-Brexit options for the UK

04 Apr 2017

On 30 March, the day after the 'triggering' of Article 50 began the official Brexit process, a group of University of Cambridge lawyers, economists...

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Opinion: The Great Repeal Bill White Paper in 20 tweets

31 Mar 2017

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, posted a number of tweets yesterday extracting key paragraphs from the Government’s White Paper on the Great...

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Opinion: The Full Brexit

17 Jan 2017

The Director of Cambridge's Centre for European Legal Studies offers his initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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Brexit: High Court ruling on Article 50 explained

03 Nov 2016

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to trigger...

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Brexit: Listen to experts from Cambridge and beyond discuss how, why and what next for Brexit Britain

02 Nov 2016

Listen to some of the talks that were given as part of the University's 'Brexit Week' series, which took place from 18 - 22 October.

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Law in Focus: 'Brexit: Legally and constitutionally, what now?'

24 Jun 2016

In this video, Professor Mark Elliott from the Faculty of Law discusses some of the key legal points that will be critical in the Brexit process.

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Poll Card EU referendum

Article 50 is ‘only credible way’ for Brexit, says leading EU law expert

21 Jun 2016

Cambridge law professor says Article 50 is the only legal mechanism for Brexit, countering assertions by Vote Leave ‘roadmap’ that Article 50 is “not...

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Legal and political VIPs to give lectures in Cambridge

07 Feb 2014

Public lectures this month cast light on Britain's constitutional past and its complex relationship with Europe.

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Albert Venn Dicey in academic robes

The (Victorian) case for a referendum on independence

18 Dec 2013

As the referendum on Scottish independence approaches in 2014, new research shows how a founding father of constitutional law in the United Kingdom...

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Indian Parliament building (designed by British architect Edwin Lutyens) in 1944

How the Westminster parliamentary system was exported around the world

02 Dec 2013

As an expert in constitutional law, Sir Ivor Jennings played a pivotal role in the establishment of states emerging from British rule in the mid-20th...

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Professor David Feldman

'Votes for Prisoners? Democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights'

29 Nov 2012

Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the UK's blanket ban on voting by convicted prisoners violates Article 3 of Protocol 1...

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