The UK Parliament enacted,
The UK Parliament enacted, in that context, the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 2) Act 2019, often known as the “Benn Act” (it was introduced to the House of Commons by Hilary Benn MP) and less endearingly referred to by Johnson as the “Surrender Act”. This effectively required that unless alternative conditions were met – namely parliamentary approval of a negotiated withdrawal agreement, or parliamentary approval for the UK to leave the EU without such an agreement – then the Prime Minister...
The UK Parliament enacted,
The UK Parliament enacted, in that context, the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 2) Act 2019, often known as the “Benn Act” (it was introduced to the House of Commons by Hilary Benn MP) and less endearingly referred to by Johnson as the “Surrender Act”. This effectively required that unless alternative conditions were met – namely parliamentary approval of a negotiated withdrawal agreement, or parliamentary approval for the UK to leave the EU without such an agreement – then the Prime Minister...
As Theresa May’s time in office came to a premature
As Theresa May’s time in office came to a premature end due to her repeated failure to obtain parliamentary approval for her negotiated withdrawal agreement with the European Union, Boris Johnson succeeded her as both leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. The UK was scheduled to leave the EU on 31 October 2019 following two previous extensions agreed to by the European Council. The spectre of a further extension loomed large, but Johnson was adamant: the UK would leave the EU o...
As Theresa May’s time in office came to a premature
As Theresa May’s time in office came to a premature end due to her repeated failure to obtain parliamentary approval for her negotiated withdrawal agreement with the European Union, Boris Johnson succeeded her as both leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. The UK was scheduled to leave the EU on 31 October 2019 following two previous extensions agreed to by the European Council. The spectre of a further extension loomed large, but Johnson was adamant: the UK would leave the EU o...
If any proof was needed that Brexit
If any proof was needed that Brexit is all-pervasive, it is that the nobile officium took centre stage for a fraught few weeks in the Brexit saga this Autumn. The nobile officium is the extraordinary equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland to award any remedy they see fit in a miscellaneous range of technically narrow situations. Though it is a highly versatile judicial power, it is rarely used and there are good reasons for that. It had previously been regarded as obscure, a...
If any proof was needed that Brexit
If any proof was needed that Brexit is all-pervasive, it is that the nobile officium took centre stage for a fraught few weeks in the Brexit saga this Autumn. The nobile officium is the extraordinary equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland to award any remedy they see fit in a miscellaneous range of technically narrow situations. Though it is a highly versatile judicial power, it is rarely used and there are good reasons for that. It had previously been regarded as obscure, a...
My central mission in Hans Kelsen’s
My central mission in Hans Kelsen’s Political Realism was to show the ‘other’ Kelsen, and then to tie the realist and the idealist together. The result is the Kelsenian story of how, out of our battles between pleasure and pain, emotions and interests, justice and power, there emerges the reality of law, and the political moment. It’s this freedom that allows us—compels us—to choose, day in, day out, between light or darkness.
My central mission in Hans Kelsen’s
My central mission in Hans Kelsen’s Political Realism was to show the ‘other’ Kelsen, and then to tie the realist and the idealist together. The result is the Kelsenian story of how, out of our battles between pleasure and pain, emotions and interests, justice and power, there emerges the reality of law, and the political moment. It’s this freedom that allows us—compels us—to choose, day in, day out, between light or darkness.
If you go looking, then,
If you go looking, then, for whether he believed in a Kantian peace, you miss the point. Politics, domestic and international, is not about believing; nor is it rooted in Nature, God or any other natural law. There is no consolation: Whatever happens, good, bad or ugly, in political and international life has been willed. There’s a profound political realism that is built into Kelsen’s core political and moral message: as long as You and Me don’t live to see an ever more centralised internati...
If you go looking, then,
If you go looking, then, for whether he believed in a Kantian peace, you miss the point. Politics, domestic and international, is not about believing; nor is it rooted in Nature, God or any other natural law. There is no consolation: Whatever happens, good, bad or ugly, in political and international life has been willed. There’s a profound political realism that is built into Kelsen’s core political and moral message: as long as You and Me don’t live to see an ever more centralised internati...
