Faculty staging special Brexit event

 

An invited audience and specialist speakers will analyse the Scottish Government’s Brexit strategy at a special Faculty conference.

European experts from home and abroad are being brought together for a day of discussion and debate about issues raised by the paper, Scotland’s Place in Europe, published by the Scottish Government http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00512073.pdf .

Those attending as speakers will be Lord Carloway, the Lord President of the Court of Session; Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, of the Court of Justice of the European Union; Mike Russell, MSP, Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s Place in Europe; Professor Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen, of the University of Bergen; Professor Catherine Barnard, of Cambridge University;  Professor Brendan O’Leary, of the University of Pennsylvania; Dame Mariot Leslie, formerly UK Permanent Representative to NATO and now a member of the First Minister’s Standing Council on Europe; Professor Derrick Wyatt QC, of Brick Court Chambers; Professor Drew Scott, of Edinburgh University; and Ian Bond, of the Centre for European Reform.

The event, “Scotland’s Options”, is on Friday (10 March), and will be held under the Chatham House Rule.  A morning session will focus on the technical and legal aspects of the Scottish Government’s proposals, while the broader international implications of those proposals will be explored in the afternoon.  A summary of the conference proceedings will be published in due course on the Faculty’s website.

James Mure, QC, Convener of the Faculty of Advocates International Committee, said: “This event comes at a most propitious time, with the Prime Minister expected to issue the UK’s Article 50 notice in the very near future.  Our uniquely qualified panel of experts is set to shine a light on Scotland’s options at this defining moment in our country’s constitutional history.”