Article 2 of the Windsor Framework: Unpacking Law and Policy Challenges

A one day conference taking place on Friday 29th November at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law will consider Article 2 of the Windsor Framework in wider context.
Academic and practitioner contributions will take stock of recent developments in WF Article 2 case law as well as examining the broader implications and potential implications of the provision in relation to issues such as environmental rights, frontier workers, social rights, and immigration policy.
This event is funded by the ‘Governance for a place between: the Multilevel Dynamics of Implementing the Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland’ ESRC-funded project and is co-hosted by the Queen’s International Economic Law Centre.

Arrival at venue (Moot Court Room) – 8:40 am – tea and coffee

Welcome – 9:10 am Prof David Phinnemore – Professor of European Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, Principal Investigator of ESRC project on Governance for 'a place between’: the Multilevel Dynamics of Implementing the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland

Panel I – 9:15 am - 10:35 am – “Article 2 Case-law & the Test”

Chair – Professor Aoife O’Donoghue (QUB)

i. Professor Christopher McCrudden (QUB) – Article 2 after Dillon

ii. Professor Colin Murray (University of Newcastle) – The Mouse that Roared: Windsor Framework Article 2 comes into its own

iii. Ms Htaik Win (Solicitor at Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission) – A practical guide to litigating Article 2 of the Windsor Framework

Coffee break – 10.45am

Panel II – 10:45 am – 12:05 “Article 2 in Wider Contexts”

Chair – Professor Billy Melo Araujo (QUB)

i. Professor Eleni Franziou (Durham) - Article 2 and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

ii. Prof Ruth McAreavey and Dr Katharine Wright (University of Newcastle) - The Impact of Brexit on Women

iii. Dr Lisa-Claire Whitten (QUB) - Non-diminution, dynamic alignment and cooperation: exploring the potential of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland to protect the environment

Lunch 12.05 pm-1.20pm

Panel III – 1:20 pm-2.40pm – “Article 2 , Immigration and Frontier Workers”

Chair – Dr Marisa McVoy (QUB)

iv. Professor Colin Harvey (QUB) - Detaching Northern Ireland: asylum, immigration, human rights and the special arrangement

v. John McGrath (Solicitor – Brian Feeney Co Solicitors) - A house divided cannot stand: exploring Government immigration policy in a post-Brexit landscape

vi. Dr Sylvia De Mars (University of Newcastle) - Article 2, Frontier Workers and their Families

Duration: 5 hours

Host or Publisher Deaglan Coyle