1st Edition

Brexit and Rights Protection in the United Kingdom Understanding the Challenges

By Russell Solomon Copyright 2026
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The book is about how Brexit has and is likely to impact the UK’s protection of rights. In analysing the multi-layered framework of institutions that has provided this protection, Solomon contributes to our understanding of how this critical juncture has disrupted the human rights regime developed under the EU, its limits, and the kind of associative posture the UK will likely adopt towards the... Read more

Chapter 1 – Introduction and the pre-Brexit protection of rights in the United Kingdom

Chapter 2 – Brexit and its threat to the protection of rights

Chapter 3 – The changed legal context of post-Brexit United Kingdom

Chapter 4 – Devolution and the protection of rights

Chapter 5 – Concluding reflections

Biography

Russell Solomon teaches law in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include collaborating on a project on Democracy in post-Brexit UK. Russell’s most recent book was Australia’s Engagement with Economic and Social Rights: A Case of Institutional Avoidance (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).