The Lessons of Brexit

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Date 29/03/2019 at 19.00 - 29/03/2019 at 20.00 Where Lee Hall

Join us in the Lee Hall at for a lively and informed panel discussion and audience Q&A on the lessons for politics, democracy, media and the law. *Please note that the lineup has changed as Rafael Baer has unfortunately had to pull out. He will be replaced by Baroness Julie Smith.

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Under the Article 50 process the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union at 11pm on March 29. Join us in the Lee Hall at 19:00 that evening for a lively and informed panel discussion and audience Q&A on the lessons for politics, democracy, media and the law that we can draw from what the UK has been through in the last three years.

Panellists will include:

Professor Kenneth Armstrong, Professor of European Law, Law Faculty, author of Brexit Time: Leaving the EU - Why, How and When? and of The Brexit Effect blog. @ProfKAArmstrong

Professor Christopher Grey, Chair of Organisational Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London. Former Cambridge Professor and Fellow of Wolfson. Author of The Brexit Blog. @chrisgreybrexit

Dr Julie Smith (Baroness Smith of Newnham), Reader in European Politics in POLIS

Professor Aoife O’Donoghue, Professor of International Law and Global Governance at the University of Durham and co-author of Bordering Two Unions: Northern Ireland and Brexit (Policy Press, 2018). @aoifemod

Chair: Professor John Naughton, Director, Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme and Observer columnist. @jjn1

Drinks & nibbles at 19.00. This event is now booked up. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please email communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk.

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