About the lecture

In this module, Professor Stephen Tierney explores the relationship between Parliament and the Supreme Court in the context of Brexit, and what this reveals about the UK Constitution, focusing in particular on: (i) the UK Supreme Court as Parliament's ‘noisy neighbour’; (ii) whether the oppositional relationship between Parliament and the Supreme Court during the Brexit process was specific to that process or part of a longer-term trend; (iii) the Supreme Court’s inability to strike down law as unconstitutional and the role of “declarations of incompatibility”; (iv) discussion in-depth of the two Miller cases on Article 50 and prorogation.

About the lecturer

Professor Stephen Tierney is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee since 2015 and a Board Member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. His teaching and research interests lie in the constitutional law of the United Kingdom, comparative constitutional law and the constitutional theory of the state, direct democracy and federalism. He recently published 'The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism' (2022).