Free Movement of Persons and the New Legal Order – A Roundtable Discussion

Location: M, New Court, Trinity College, Cambridge

In the wake of the UK’s Brexit vote, and the centrality of EU free movement, especially free movement of persons, to the vote to leave, this roundtable will bring together experts to consider ‘what next?’ for free movement of persons between the UK and the EU. A wide variety of different models of cooperation will be explored, including the European Economic Area, EU association agreements, the World Trade Organisation, the ASEAN Free Trade Area, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The position under the (now rejected) re-negotiation agreement between the EU and UK of earlier this year will also be considered, in light of the origins of free movement of persons within the UK, as they were envisaged in the Spaak Report of 1956.

Alongside an aim to exchange and increase knowledge between roundtable participants, this event will lead to the creation of a series of short videos, which we hope will inform broader public debate about alternatives to EU free movement. Our hope is that each speaker will be willing to distil their key messages to camera in the last three minutes of their presentation. Where speakers are joining us via skype, we hope that they will record a short video with the help of their home institution or using a laptop with a camera.

A draft programme is available to download.  More detailed information will be available shortly.