A Common Travel Area (CTA) between Ireland and the UK has existed for most of the near century since Ireland became independent. These arrangements came into being to lessen the disruptive impact of partition upon life on the island of Ireland and to maintain labour flows across the Atlantic...

How does Brexit change Northern Ireland’s system of government? Could it unravel crucial parts of Northern Ireland’s peace process? What are the wider implications of the arrangements for the Irish and UK constitutions? Northern Ireland presents some of the most difficult Brexit dilemmas....

This international and global constitutionalism-oriented work will consider how Northern Ireland’s experience during and after Brexit informs our understandings of multi-level governance orders and interactions between and within those orders. This piece will utilize scale theory –...

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concluded between the UK and Ireland in May 2019 provides one of the few clear legacies of Theresa May's premiership. The Common Travel Area (CTA) between Ireland, the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man has long lacked legal definition. Nonetheless,...

This chapter examines general principles in EU public procurement law and explores how they ‘behave' in this specific sub-field. The chapter will consider in broad terms where, and in what ways, the general principles have had the most significant impact on public procurement, both under the...

Using public procurement as a case study, this article considers how the European Court of Justice’s use of general principles to supplement existing secondary law obligations affects Member States in their design of national regulatory systems. It finds that the EU legislature and the Court...

This article explores the interaction between EU movement of persons and the access to and financing of public healthcare in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The article will show that particularly in a time of relative austerity and a seeming lack of cross-border solidarity, the...

Under pressure to make healthcare provision more affordable, questions of access to healthcare have gained prominence in most countries in recent years. In light of these concerns, this article examines a grey area of EU law: can economically inactive EU migrants rely on entitlement to the...