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The United Kingdom is slated to leave the European Union at 11:00pm GMT on Friday, March 29, 2019. As the clock ticks towards the deadline, it is a very real possibility that this will be a hard Brexit, that is, with no-deal with the EU in place. However, even if the no-deal scenario happens, this does not mean that on day one after Brexit there will not be any treaties, agreements and other arrangements in force that will govern the relations between the EU and the UK and between the UK and third countries. This panel will explore some examples. It will first give an overview of the remaining general Brexit scenarios and focus on what will happen in different, concrete areas: EU regulatory arrangements with third countries; what they mean for the UK; cross-border transfers of personal data after the March 29 deadline; how data protection laws may restrict such transfers; and the status of the protection of social, economic and cultural rights of Europeans living in the UK after the country has left the European Union.
Speakers: Paula Fernandez-Wulff, ESCR Coordinator, Jean Monnet Chair EU Law and Government; Elizabeth Goldberg, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Tim Hickman, Partner, White & Case, London; Jose M. Martinez Sierra, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government and Director, RCC, Harvard University; Co-Chair, EU Law and Government Study Group and Southern Europe in the EU Study Group, CES, Harvard University.
Sponsors: RCC; EU Law and Government Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.