Last night University College London hosted a discussion on Brexit and the law, featuring Dr Tom Hickman and Professor Jeff King (co-authors with Nick Barber of the famous article 50 blogpost) together with Professor Piet Eeckhout, Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor George Letsas and Dr Ronan McCrea.
I was far from convinced by some of the constitutional theorising last night about the illegitimacy of the EU referendum and the human rights arguments made against Brexit. Nor am I persuaded by Hickman and King’s argument on article 50. But it was fascinating to hear them defend their position, including against a provocative and maybe slightly bonkers point from me (at about 1 hour 21 minutes).
Joshua Rozenberg was in the chair. I must congratulate UCL not only on the event itself but on having so impressively livestreamed it on the web and published this video so quickly.
Carl Gardner2016-07-14T15:54:53+00:00
Thanks for this, Carl, and sorry not to have called you by name when you asked your question.
No need to apologise, Joshua! I certainly wouldn’t have expected that.
Thanks for chairing the event so well. The attendance was impressive and it’s excellent how accessible UCL have made it.
Dear Carl,
Your question wasn’t bonkers at all! And this is a productive disagreement we are having. I was fearful you’d grill us on Ex p Rees Mogg (as in your Radio 4 interview with H Kennedy)! (Laker Airways is our answer on that point – see Ewan Smith’s UKCLA blog post on this). It was good of you to make time to come and a shame we didn’t have the chance to meet afterwards.
Very best,
Jeff
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